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: 2008-10-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Italy, Spain, State aid, agricultural product, control of State aid, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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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 274/03)

Aid No: XA 250/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

persons who provide consultancy or audit services to producers,
so that the latter receive aid in kind. No direct cash payments
will be made to the producers.

Subsidised consultancy services will be available to all sheep and
goat producers.

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

Services provided by a producer group or professional organisa-
tion must not be restricted to members

Ayudas para programas de auditoria y asesoramiento de las
explotaciones de ovino y caprino

Sector(s) concerned: Sheep and goat sectors

Legal basis:

Orden AAR/…/2008, de …, por la que se aprueban las bases
reguladoras de las ayudas para programas de auditoria y asesora-
miento de las explotaciones de ovino y caprino, y se convocan
las correspondientes al año 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 260 000 per marketing year in 2008 and 2009

individual

Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity is variable, subject to
a limit of 100 %

Date of implementation: The Order will enter into force on
the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the
Generalitat de Cataluña (DOGC).

Name and address of granting authority:

Departamento de Agricultura, Alimentación y Acción Rural
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 612-614
E-08007 Barcelona

Website:

http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/DAR/02 %20DAR_Serveis %
20i %20tramits/DAR_01 %20Ajuts %20i %20subvencions/
DAR_05 %20Ajus %20pendents %20publicacio/Documents/
Fitxers %20estatics/t08154055.pdf

Other information: —

The Order will be published in the DOGC on the date of publi-
cation on the website of DG AGRI of the registration number of
in Regulation (EC)
the
No 1857/2006.

exemption request provided for

Aid No: XA 251/08

Member State: Spain

Publication is expected in June 2008

Region: Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias

Duration of
31 December 2009

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Title of aid scheme:

Objective of aid: Provision of technical support in the agri-
sector under Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation (EC)
cultural
No 1857/2006.

The Order introduces an aid scheme for audit and consultancy
farms defined as small or
programmes for sheep and goat
medium-sized enterprises
in accordance with Commission
Recommendation 2003/361/EC, with the aim of improving the
production, technical-economic and health conditions on the
farms involved in those programmes.

Subvenciones destinadas a la financiación de los Servicios de
Asesoramiento Técnico en Materia de Control
Integrado de
Plagas en los Cultivos Agrícolas

Legal basis:

Proyecto de Orden de la Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería,
Pesca y Alimentación, por la que se convocan las subvenciones
destinadas a la financiación de los Servicios de Asesoramiento
Técnico en Materia de Control
Integrado de plagas en los
Cultivos Agrícolas

This aid is to be used to subsidise the fees of the groups, coop-
and legal
eratives, professional organisations

and natural

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: One million
two hundred and fifty-three thousand euro (EUR 1 253 000)

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Maximum aid intensity: Under Article 3 of the above draft
Order, the aid referred to in the Article 1 may cover up to
100 % of the salaries of the technical staff recruited, up to a
maximum of EUR 15 000 per person

the Canary Islands, which will take place as soon as the
provision laid down in Article 20 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 is fulfilled.

Date of implementation: From the date of publication on the
website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture
the
and Rural Development of
request
in Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006

the registration number of

exemption provided for

for

scheme or

Duration of
aid award: Until
31 December 2008 or before that date if the appropriation allo-
cated to fund the aid (EUR 1 253 000) is used up

individual

Objective of aid: Aid for the provision of technical assistance
in the agricultural sector,
to cover the cost of consultancy
services provided by third parties. Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006.

1. The rules applicable will govern the call for applications for
the 2008 financial year for aid to fund technical consultancy
services in connection with the integrated control of crop
pests.

2. The technical consultancy services will cover the following:

(a) using the most appropriate means of plant protection,
aim of
including plant-health products, with the
achieving high-quality harvests while
ensuring the
utmost respect for the environment and minimising and
rationalising treatment costs;

The aid may cover up to 100 % of the salaries of the tech-
nical staff recruited, up to a maximum of EUR 15 000
per person.

4. In addition to the above, the aid provided for in the Order
must meet
the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 referred to above, in that it must be acces-
sible to all those eligible in the area concerned, based on
objectively defined conditions.

Membership of beneficiary organisations must not be a
condition for access to the service and the contribution of
non-members towards administrative costs must be limited
to the proportional costs of providing the service

Sector(s) concerned: In accordance with Rule 2(1) of the draft
Order, the aid will be paid direct to natural and legal persons,
local authorities in the Autonomous Community of the Canary
Islands or any other body specified in Article 11(3) of
Law No 38/2003 of 17 November laying down general rules on
aid that provide the technical consultancy services provided for
in Article 1(2) of the draft Order to small and medium-sized
holdings engaged in agricultural production, which, in accord-
ance with Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, will be deemed to be
the final beneficiaries of the aid, provided that, in accordance
with Article 15 of that Regulation, the aid is obtained in kind
by means of the subsidised services and they fulfil the condi-
tions laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC)
No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 (OJ L 10, 13.1.2001)

(b) providing know-how on integrated pest control, with

particular emphasis on biological control;

Name and address of the granting authority:

(c) applying the new Community food safety and hygiene
standards to plant health and the sustainable use of pesti-
cides;

(d) implementing all measures designed to improve the
health and safety of workers involved in plant health
the safety of plant-health product
and,
applicatorsp;

in particular,

Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación
(Dirección General de Agricultura)
Edificio Usos Múltiples II
Avda. José Manuel Guimerá, 8, 3a planta
E-38071 Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Website:

http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/agricultura/otros/reglamen-
to_CE_pymes.htm

(e) carrying out studies or trials on ‘pilot’ holdings for the

introduction of new pest-control technologies;

Other information: —

(f) establishing health programmes for the holdings using
the procedures for pest

the service, setting out all
control, health and safety and product quality.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2 June 2008.

3. Aid may be provided for expenditure on hiring technical
staff exclusively involved in providing consultancy services
from the date the Order calling for applications enters into
force until 31 December 2008. The Order will enter into
force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of

Ildefonso Socorro Quevedo
Director General de Asuntos Económicos con la Unión Europea

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Aid No: XA 252/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Galicia

Title of aid scheme:

Ayudas para la compra de ganado bovino, ovino y caprino que
tenga por objeto la reposición de las reses como consecuencia
del sacrificio obligatorio en ejecución de los programas de
control y erradicación de enfermedades de los animales

Legal basis:

Other information:

E-mail address:

dxpica.mediorural@xunta.es

Maria.soledad.castro.diaz@xunta.es

The Regional Minister

pp (Order of 12 August 2005)

O Secretario Xeral
Alberte Souto Souto

Orden … de …, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras
de las ayudas para la compra de ganado bovino, ovino y caprino
que tenga por objeto la reposición de las reses como conse-
cuencia del sacrificio obligatorio en ejecución de los programas
de control y erradicación de enfermedades de los animales

Aid No: XA 253/08

Member State: Italy

Annual
EUR 440 000

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Region: Piemonte

Title of aid scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: The difference between the compensa-
tion and the purchase price

Programma di meccanizzazione agricola

Date of implementation: 1 January 2008

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The rules at present in force expressly recog-
nise the right of owners to compensation for losses caused by
the slaughter of
livestock but the methods currently used to
assess the value of livestock do not result in compensation suffi-
cient to cover the actual financial loss suffered.

Therefore, aid is required to facilitate the replacement of live-
stock that has been slaughtered compulsorily where compensa-
tion for compulsory slaughter is not sufficient to cover the
purchase of new animals similar
to those slaughtered and
precludes actual replacement.

The scheme is in keeping with Article 10 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006, which states that aid to compensate farmers for
is compatible with the
losses caused by animal diseases
common market

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Xunta de Galicia. Consellería de Medio Rural

Legal basis:

Articolo 10 della legge regionale 23 maggio 2008, n. 12

Planned
EUR 4 000 000.

annual

expenditure

under

the

scheme:

In order to respect the ceiling imposed by the stability pact,
annual expenditure has been reduced as follows: EUR 2 000 000
for 2008, EUR 3 000 000 for 2009 and EUR 3 000 000
for 2010

Maximum aid intensity: Contribution to interest payments on
five-year loans, granted as a discount, the equivalent of which in
capital grants may not exceed 40 % of eligible costs

Date of implementation: As from the publication of the regis-
tration number of the request for exemption on the website of
the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural
Development

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2010, the year of
the last payment
instalment provided by the 2008-2010
multi-annual budget for funding this programme

Objective of aid: In application of Article 4(4)(b) of the Regu-
lation,
to provide a contribution to interest payments on
five-year loans to purchase agricultural machinery and equip-
ment, to attain the following objectives:

Dirección General de Producción Industrias y Calidad Agroali-
mentaria

Website:

— to reduce production costs,

— to improve and convert production,

— to improve quality,

http://mediorural.xunta.es/externos/borrador_orde_reposicion_
2008.pdf

— to preserve and improve the natural environment, or
improve hygiene conditions or animal welfare standards

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Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural production sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Piemonte Direzione Agricoltura
Corso Stati Uniti, 21
I-10129 Torino

Website:

http://arianna.consiglioregionale.piemonte.it/ariaint/TESTO?
LAYOUT=PRESENTAZIONE&TIPODOC=LEGGI&LEGGE=
12&LEGGEANNO=2008

Other information: The Piedmontese provinces will be respon-
sible for conducting inquiries and checking purchases. Regional
financial resources will be employed and disbursed by the Agri-
cultural Directorate of the Piedmontese Region Assessorato Agri-
coltura, Tutela della Fauna e della Flora (Office for Agriculture and
the Protection of Flora and Fauna)

Aid No: XA 254/08

Member State: France

Regions: Département du Puy-de-Dôme

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

Lutte contre certaines maladies contagieuses animales et autres
actions sanitaires spécifiques

Legal basis:

— Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006,

— articles L 1511-1 et suivants et articles L 3231-1 et suivants

du code général des collectivités territoriales

— délibération du 14 décembre 2007 et projet de délibération

du 29 avril 2008 du Conseil général du Puy-de-Dôme

Objective of aid: The aid is based on Article 10(1) and (4)
to (8) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. It helps support the
department's epidemiological surveillance and environmental-
protection-related tasks (mandatory activities). Introducing this
agricultural policy will help guarantee better public health by
improving the health of cattle, sheep, goat, pig and bee popula-
tions through screening for illnesses:

— screening for causes of abortions in ruminants (only for
illnesses included in the OIE list or in the Annex to Decision
90/424/EEC),

— analyses in connection with a mucosal disease control plan,

— analyses in connection with an anti-paratuberculosis plan,

— analyses in connection with screening for brucellosis in

small ruminants,

— analyses in connection with screening for infectious bovine

rhinotracheitis,

— aid for purchasing anti-varroa-mite products, and the

carrying out of sporadic health analyses on apiaries,

— autopsy, bacteriological analysis, decerebration analysis,

— collection of veterinary waste (increasing the security of the
recycling loop for infectious waste produced by livestock
farmers in the course of their professional activity).

No aid will be paid to the farmers themselves. It will instead be
given to the organisations that will be given responsibility for
carrying out the aforementioned subsidised operations. It will be
ensured that farmers will benefit from these subsidies only if
their farm complies with the Community criteria for small or
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Subject to this caveat, the aid
will be granted in the form of subsidised services available to all
livestock farmers regardless of whether they belong to a produ-
cers' organisation or another structure

Sector(s) concerned: The cattle, sheep, goat and pig breeding
sectors and the beekeeping sector

Annual
EUR 500 000

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Name and address of the granting authority:

Maximum aid intensity: In compliance with the limits set in
Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, i.e. 100 %

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the
registration number of the exemption request on the website of
the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural
Development

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Conseil général du Puy-de-Dôme
24, rue Saint Esprit
F-63033 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1

Website:

http://deliberations.cg63.fr/NetelibInternetDocs/ConseilGeneral/
2008/04/29/Deliberation/T010M.pdf

http://deliberations.cg63.fr/NetelibInternetDocs/ConseilGeneral/
2008/04/29/Annexestandardword/F010M.pdf