Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001
Date: 2008-08-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Germany, Latvia, Spain, State aid, aid to agriculture, control of State aid, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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NOTICES FROM MEMBER STATES

Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to
small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products and amending
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001

(2008/C 222/06)

Aid No: XA 51/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Principado de Asturias

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:

Asociación Española de Criadores de Ganado Vacuno Selecto de
raza Asturiana de la Montaña (ASEAMO)

Legal basis:

Convenio de colaboración con la Asociación Española de Cria-
dores de Ganado Vacuno Selecto de raza Asturiana de la
Montaña para el desarrollo de un programa de conservación y
mejora de dicha raza durante 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 148 000

individual

Maximum aid intensity:

Eligible item

Maximum subsidy
intensity

I. Maintenance of the herd-book

100 %

II. Performance testing and tests to determine the

70 %

genetic quality of livestock

III. Introduction of

innovative animal breeding

40 %

practices

IV. Technical support

100 %

Date of
implementation: Decision of 30 January 2008
granting the aid (subject, in any case, to this form being sent to
the Commission at least 10 working days beforehand)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until December
2008

Objective of aid: To implement a genetic improvement
programme for the Asturiana de la Montaña breed of cattle

The applicable Articles of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 are as
follows:

Article 15 — ‘Provision of technical support in the agricultural
sector’. Eligible expenditure: expenditure on organising training
programmes;
training
on
programmes; expenditure on editing publications and websites.

participating

expenditure

in

Article 16 — ‘Support for the livestock sector’. Eligible expendi-
ture: expenditure on maintaining the herd-book; expenditure on
performance testing and tests to determine the genetic quality of
livestock; expenditure relating to the introduction of innovative
animal breeding techniques

Sector(s) concerned: Cattle breeding

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Rural del Principado
de Asturias
C/ Coronel Aranda, s/n, 4a planta
E-33071 Oviedo (Asturias)

Website:

The text of the cooperation agreement may be consulted on
www.asturias.es, by following the links temáticas/ganadería/ayudas
at the URL:

http://www.asturias.es/portal/site/Asturias/menuitem.fe57bf7c5f
d38046e44f5310bb30a0a0/?vgnextoid=959f4749be187110Vg
nVCM10000097030a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=d2907989c258
f010VgnVCM100000b0030a0aRCRD&i18n.http.lang=es

Other information: —

Head of animal breeding and welfare
Luis Miguel ALVAREZ MORALES

Aid No: XA 70/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Principado de Asturias

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:

Asociación de Criadores de Gochu Asturcelta (ACGA)

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Legal basis:

Other information: —

Convenio de colaboración con la Asociación de Criadores de
Gochu Asturcelta para el desarrollo de un programa de conser-
vación y fomento de dicha raza durante 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 21 000

individual

Maximum aid intensity:

Eligible measure

I. Maintenance of a herd book

II. Technical assistance

Maximum aid
intensity

100 %

100 %

Head of the Livestock Production and Animal Welfare Department
Luis Miguel ALVAREZ MORALES

Aid No: XA 110/08

Member State: France

Region: DOM

Title of aid scheme:

Aides aux groupements de producteurs dans les départements
d'outre-mer

Legal basis:

Date of implementation: The decision granting aid is due to
be adopted on 30 January 2008 (provided that this form has
been sent to the Commission at least ten working days before)

— Articles L621-1 à L621-11, articles R621-1 à R621-43 et

articles R684-1 à R684-12 du code rural

— Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until December
2008

— Projet de décision du directeur de l'ODEADOM relatif à un
régime d'aides aux groupements de producteurs dans les
départements d'outre-mer

Objective of aid: To implement the programme for the conser-
vation of the Gochu Asturcelta pig breed.

Annual
EUR 650 000 (between several groups of beneficiaries)

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

The applicable Articles of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 are:

Article 15 — ‘Provision of technical support in the agricultural
sector’. Eligible costs: cost of organising training programmes,
cost of participating in training programmes, cost of organising
competitions and exhibitions, cost of publications.

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 95 % (but not more than
EUR 400 000 per beneficiary for the entire period). Further-
more, aid will be degressive each year, decreasing by 5 percen-
tage points per year

Date of implementation: On receipt of an acknowledgement
of receipt from the Commission

Article 16 — ‘Support for the livestock sector’. Eligible costs:
cost of maintaining a herd book

Duration of the aid scheme: Until 31.12.2013

Sector(s) concerned: Pig breeding

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Rural del Principado
de Asturias
C/ Coronel Aranda, s/n, 4a planta
E-33071 Oviedo (Asturias)

Website:

The text of the cooperation agreement can be consulted on the
www.asturias.es website, by following the links to temáticas/gana-
dería/ayudas at the following address:

http://www.asturias.es/portal/site/Asturias/menuitem.fe57bf7c5f
d38046e44f5310bb30a0a0/?vgnextoid=959f4749be187110Vg
nVCM10000097030a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=d2907989c258
f010VgnVCM100000b0030a0aRCRD&i18n.http.lang=es

Objective and type of aid: This aid is intended for producer
groups in the French overseas departments, and is financed
from the budget of the Office de développement de l'économie agri-
cole des départements d'Outre-mer
(the overseas
departments agricultural economy development office). The aid
cannot be combined with any similar aid financed by the POSEI
France programme.

(ODEADOM)

The purpose of the aid will be to facilitate the establishment of
producer groups and to launch their activities. Eventually, the
establishment and successful
these groups should
facilitate producers' technological and economic modernisation,
help them adapt
to market demands, strengthen producers'
negotiating power when dealing with organised distribution
centres and make farmers more professional.

launch of

This aid concerns the actions listed in Article 9 of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006, in particular rental of suitable premises,
purchase of office equipment, including computer hardware and
software, administrative costs (including staff), overheads and
other expenses. If premises are purchased, the eligible expenses
for premises should be limited to rental costs at market rates

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Sectors concerned: Fruit and vegetables
(subsistence and
market-garden crops, roots and tubers, fresh fruit, citrus fruit,
dry fruit), semi-permanent fruit crops, viticulture, horticulture,
herbs, medicinal plants, plants used for perfume extraction,
stimulant plants and rice.

Ruminants and intensive production sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

ODEADOM
12, rue Henri Rol-Tanguy
TSA 60006
F-93555 Montreuil Cedex

Website:

(EC) No 1857/2006, specifically: Article 15 (Provision of tech-
nical support in the agricultural sector), in particular participa-
tion in trade fairs and exhibitions (participation fees, publication
costs, the cost of renting exhibition space), presentations with
neutral information on producers from a specific region or of a
specific product, open to all; the aid must be granted by means
of subsidised services and must not involve direct payments of
money to producers

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors involved in animal
and plant production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft
Archivstraße 1
D-01097 Dresden

http://www.odeadom.fr/?page_id=12#5

Website:

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/de/wu/Landwirtschaft/download/TB-
Messen_050208__2_.pdf

Aid No: XA 145/08

Other information:

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Sachsen

Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft
Referat 23 „Förderstrategie“
D-01076 Dresden
Tel. (49) 351 564 68 47

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid:

Allgemeine Teilnahmebedingungen für vom Sächsischen Staats-
ministerium für Umwelt
geförderte
und
Gemeinschaftsbeteiligungen in den Bereichen Verkaufsförderung
und Messen als Anlage zum Rahmenvertrag

Landwirtschaft

TREPMANN
Head of Unit

Legal basis:

Aid No: XA 148/08

— Haushaltsordnung des Freistaates Sachsen (Sächsische Haush-

Member State: Latvia

altsordnung — SäHO)

Region: —

— Allgemeine Teilnahmebedingungen für vom Sächsischen
Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft geförderte
Gemeinschaftsbeteiligungen in den Bereichen Verkaufsför-
derung und Messen als Anlage zum Rahmenvertrag

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid:

Atbalsta shēma „Lauku saimnieku aizvietotāji“

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
individual
EUR 1,9 million per annum

Legal basis:

Maximum aid intensity:

— Participation in trade fairs, product presentations and

markets, up to a maximum of 100 %.

— Presentations with neutral information on producers from a
specific region or of a specific product, up to a maximum of
100 %

Date of implementation: 8 April 2008

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2013

Ministru kabineta noteikumi „Noteikumi par valsts atbalstu lauk-
saimniecībai 2008. gadā un tā piešķiršanas kārtību“ 4. pielikuma
V atbalsta programma 102.–108. punkts

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2008: LVL 30 500

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2009: LVL 50 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2010: LVL 70 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2011: LVL 90 000

Objective of aid: To provide support to agricultural undertak-
ings in the field of marketing within the Community. Support
for SMEs of this kind comes under the provisions of Regulation

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2012: LVL 110 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2013: LVL 130 000

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Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity is 100 %.

The aid may be claimed under a pilot project by dairy and veal
farms (hereinafter ‘farms’) participating in the ‘Replacement
farmers in Latvia’ pilot project, where:

1. the herd size is between five and 50 cows or young bovine

animals;

2. there is minimal milking technology — milking into cans;

3. premises that meet hygiene requirements can be provided.

Aid can be granted in respect of
the use of replacements'
services for eight hours (the hourly rate is LVL 3) per day
(including travel time to and from the farm), up to 14 days or
112 hours per year (except
in the case of pregnancy and
parental
leave) during the following instances of the farmer's
enforced absence:

1.

incapacity for work (inter alia hospital treatment, planned
operation) — up to 14 days;

2. rehabilitation prescribed by a doctor — up to 14 days;

3. pregnancy/parental

leave — 14 days before childbirth and

14 days after childbirth;

4. special circumstances — wedding/funeral of first-degree rela-

tive — up to three days;

5. death of farmer — up to 14 days

Date of implementation: 1 April 2008

farmers in crisis situations to continue farming by using the
services of replacement farmers.

The aid is granted under Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid is intended for small
and medium-sized enterprises active in the primary production
of agricultural products.

The aid is intended for the livestock farming and plant produc-
tion sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Latvijas Republikas Zemkopības ministrija
LV-1981 Rīga

Website:

http://www.zm.gov.lv/doc_upl/4.pielikums.doc

small

information: Aid

Other
and medium-sized
for
enterprises active in the primary production of agricultural
products will be granted in accordance with Regulation (EC)
the aid will be
No 1857/2006. Pursuant
granted in kind in the form of subsidised services and will not
involve direct payments of money to producers, and pursuant to
Article 15(4) the aid will be accessible to all those eligible in the
area concerned, based on objectively defined conditions.

to Article 15(3)

Duration of
30 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

No aid remains in an intermediary enterprise; all aid is passed
on to the final beneficiaries.

Objective of aid: The purpose of the aid is to make working
conditions in the agricultural sector more attractive by enabling

Aid will not be granted retroactively in respect of activities
which have already been carried out by the beneficiary