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: 2008-11-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, Ireland, Spain, State aid, aid to agriculture, animal disease, 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 279/06)

Aid No: XA 329/07

Member State: Ireland

Region: Entire Member State

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Scheme of Payment
to Haulier companies for
removing diseased animals direct to slaughter

Legal basis: The Central Fund (Permanent Provision) Act 1965

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Overall
amounts of aid payable under this scheme is dependent on the
level of disease which, in turn, determines the numbers of reac-
tors disclosed and holdings restricted with Bovine TB and
Brucellosis. In view of this, it is not really possible to predict the
level of expenditure over the period 2007-2013. Accordingly,
the figures given below for planned expenditure are based on
current disease levels and expected expenditure in 2007:

(EUR)

Hauliers

1,1 million

1,1 million

1,1 million

1,1 million

1,1 million

1,1 million

1,1 million

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Website:

Date of implementation: 11 November 2007

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/animal_health/ERAD/ERAD_comp_
scheme07.doc

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The Scheme of
Payment to Haulier companies for removing diseased animals
direct to slaughter is implemented on an on going basis as it is
directly linked to the level of TB and Brucellosis disease in
Ireland. This scheme will remain in place until
these two
diseases have been eradicated

Objective of aid:

To ensure the rapid removal of diseased animals in order to
reduce the risk of
further spread of disease by providing a
service to remove animals which are TB/BR reactors/contacts.

This aid is provided in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006 — Aid in respect of animal and
plant disease and pest infestations

Sector(s): Bovine animals

Name and address of the granting authority:

Department of Agriculture and Food
Maynooth Business Park
Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Ireland

Aid No: XA 392/07

Member State: Czech Republic

Region: Entire Czech Republic

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Podpora příslušnému uznanému chovatelskému
sdružení na zajištění testování užitkových vlastností mladých
plemenných koní ve
vyšším stupni kontroly užitkovosti
(„Kritérium mladých koní“) a na zajištění kontroly užitkovosti a
kontroly dědičnosti anglického plnokrevníka a klusáka

Legal basis:

§ 2 a 2d zákona č. 252/1997 Sb., o zemědělství, resp. „Zásady,
kterými se stanovují podmínky pro poskytování dotací pro rok
2007“ (dále jen „Zásady 2007“).

Zákon č. 154/2000 Sb., o šlechtění, plemenitbě a evidenci
hospodářských zvířat a o změně některých souvisejících zákonů
(plemenářský zákon), jak vyplývá z pozdějších změn.

Zákon č. 166/1999 Sb., o veterinární péči a o změně některých
souvisejících zákonů

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Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of indivi-
dual aid granted to the company: CZK 9 million (to be
financed from the State budget)

Region: —

Maximum aid intensity: 70 % of the costs, in the case of tests
performed by or on behalf of third parties to determine the
genetic quality or yield of livestock

Date of implementation: 17 December 2007

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid:

The primary objective is to assist small and medium-sized enter-
prises.

The secondary objective is to maintain and improve the genetic
potential of
specified livestock in accordance with Act
No 154/2000 Coll. on the improvement, breeding and registra-
tion of livestock and amending certain related acts, as amended
by
and
decrees implementing certain provisions of that Act, and Act
No 166/1999 Coll. on veterinary care and amending certain
related acts, as amended.

subsequent Ministry of Agriculture

regulations

This is in compliance with Article 16(1)(b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 (support for the livestock sector — aid at a rate
of up to 70 % of the costs of tests performed by or on behalf of
third parties, to determine the genetic quality or yield of live-
stock, with the exception of controls undertaken by the owner
of the livestock and routine controls of milk quality)

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock sector/horse-breeding

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerstvo zemědělství České republiky
Těšnov 17
CZ-117 05 Praha

Website:

http://www.mze.cz/UserFiles/File/17000/Publikace/Upesnn%
20dotanho%20programu%202.A.%20(oprav.).pdf

Other information: —

Prague, 12 December 2007.

Miloš LUKASEK

Vrchní ředitel sekce zemědělských komodit
Ministerstvo zemědělství

Aid No: XA 393/07

Member State: Spain

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Ayuda compensatoria a los titulares de las explota-
ciones de ganado ovino afectadas por la lengua azul

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden APA/…/2007, por la que se
establecen las bases reguladoras de una ayuda compensatoria a
los titulares de las explotaciones de ganado ovino afectadas por
la lengua azul como pago adicional a los pagos acoplados a los
productores de ganado ovino y caprino (pendiente de publica-
ción en el Boletín Oficial del Estado)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The total
planned payments to all beneficiaries from public funds will be
a maximum of EUR 46 000 000. The aid is a one-off payment
and will be funded from the 2007 budget, although the
payment will probably be made in 2008

Maximum aid intensity:

The total aid may not exceed EUR 6 for each sheep for which
coupled payments were made to sheep and goat farmers during
the 2007 financial year or, where no such payments were made,
for each ewe more than 12 months old that remained on the
holding for at least 100 days prior to 8 August 2007, except in
the case of force majeure involving serotype 1 of the bluetongue
virus.

animal

and the Autonomous Communities

The central government will pay up to a maximum of EUR 3
affected
per
(Andalusia, Extremadura, Madrid, Castile-La Mancha
and
Castile-León) may pay an additional sum from their own
resources up to the ceiling cited above

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the
calls for applications by the above Autonomous Communities

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: One-off
compensatory payment funded from the 2007 budget, although
payment may be made in 2008

Objective of aid: Aid to SMEs (sheep farmers) affected by the
quarantine measures imposed following an outbreak of blue-
tongue in the areas of Spain listed in Annex I to Commission
Decision 2005/393/EC of 23 May 2005. The aid complies with
Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and specifically
with paragraph 2(a)(ii) thereof

Sector(s) concerned: Sheep farmers with holdings located
within the restricted zone referred to in Order APA/3046/2007
of 19 October 2007 laying down special protective measures.
established in accordance with
The
Article 8(1) of Directive 2000/75/EC and published on the
Commission's website pursuant to Article 6(5) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007

restricted zone was

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Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
C/ Alfonso XII, 62
E-28014 Madrid

Website:
http://rasve.mapa.es/Publica/InformacionGeneral/Legislacion/
legislacion.asp

Other information:
The grants will be compatible with any others that may be
granted by other public administrations, public bodies, be they
national or international, attached to or subordinate to them,

and other private natural or legal persons. However, grants,
taken alone or together with one or more other aid payments
or grants from any other administration, public body or natural
or legal person, may not exceed the limit of EUR 6 per animal
referred to above or the limits laid down in Article 19 of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December
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

Carlos ESCRIBANO MORA
El director general de ganadería