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: 2008-12-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, State aid, control of State aid, exchange of information, game animal, livestock farming, 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

Aid No: XA 343/08

Member State: Denmark

(2008/C 331/04)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Fjerkræafgiftsfonden
Axeltorv 3
DK-1609 Copenhagen V

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

Website:

Sundhedsstyring i vildtopdræt

Legal basis:

Lov om administration af Det Europæiske Fællesskabs forord-
ninger om markedsordninger for landbrugsvarer m.v. (Bemyndi-
gelsesloven), jf. lovbekendtgørelse nr. 297 af 28. april 2004

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
DKK 300 000

individual

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: 1 October 2008

Duration of
30 September 2009

the scheme or

the individual aid: Until

Objectives of aid: The aim of the scheme is to help to ensure
that young game birds released for hunting are healthy and
constitute a viable stock of birds suitable for human consump-
tion. As mortality rates among very young game birds are often
high, the scheme is designed to provide information about the
causes of death among the youngest groups of game birds.
the
Based on the data collected, advice is compiled about
management of game birds (primarily pheasants)
in the first
three weeks of
life, with a view to minimising production
losses.

The final beneficiaries are game bird breeders. The scheme
concerns only small and medium-sized enterprises.

The scheme comes under Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006. It concerns expenditure on consultancy services

http://www.poultry.dk/ddf/fa.nsf/B2009T.pdf?openfileresource

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 344/08

Member State: France

Region: Département du Gers

Title of aid scheme:

Programme d'aide en faveur du remplacement des éleveurs
gersois

Legal basis:

— Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006,

— articles L 1511-1 et suivants, article L 4211-1 du code

général des collectivités territoriales,

— délibération du Conseil général du Gers du 29 juillet 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 60 000/year

individual

Maximum aid intensity: The rate of aid will be 35 % of the
daily cost of replacement for young farmers and 25 % of the
daily cost of replacement for all other farmers, limited to 24 days
per year per farm

Date of implementation: 2008, 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

Sector(s) concerned: Game birds

Duration of scheme: 2008

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Objective of aid: Replacement is a solution that allows farmers
whose activity requires on-farm presence every day of the year
to have a work and life pattern comparable to other economic
for cases where this option is
sectors. Nevertheless, except
funded (by private insurance covering maternity, accidents or
illness), the cost of this service is a disincentive.

Aid is therefore being offered to farmers to encourage them to
make use of these services. This aid will be granted to cover the
real costs of replacing a farmer who is ill, on holiday or under-
going professional training (excluding trade union responsibil-
ities). The aid must be granted in kind by means of subsidised
services and must not involve direct payments of money to
producers.

In accordance with point 4 of Article 15 of the agricultural
exemption Regulation, aid will not be restricted to members of
specific producer groups or other organisations. When aid is
granted to a group or an organisation for a service provided to
a farmer who is not a member of that group or organisation, it
will be strictly limited to the costs relating to the provision of
the replacement service

Sector(s) concerned: When the farmer (exercising his/her main
activity) is required to be on the farm every day of: All farms,
the year

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le Président du Conseil Général du Gers
Direction de l'Agriculture, de l'Eau et de l'Environnement
81, route de Pessan
F-32000 AUCH

Website:

Planned
EUR 810 000 per year

annual

expenditure

under

the

scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: Up to EUR 500 per animal slaugh-
tered for official health reasons, to replace that animal. The
maximum amount of aid per replacement animal shall be the
difference between the purchase price of the new animal and
the total amount received under an insurance scheme, if any,
and costs not incurred because of the disease, which would
otherwise have been incurred, provided that the gross aid inten-
sity does not exceed 100 %

Date of implementation: The aid scheme will apply from the
date of publication on the website of DG AGRI of the registra-
tion number of the exemption request provided for in Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006. The Order will enter into force
following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Genera-
litat de Cataluña (DOGC), which is planned for September 2008

Duration of the aid scheme: From the publication of the
scheme in 2008 until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to compensate
farmers for losses caused by the slaughter of beef, dairy or Lidia
breed cattle for official health reasons, and to facilitate the repla-
cement of animals with the aim of restoring the breeding
animals to the number before the outbreak of the disease, in
accordance with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

This aid is granted in order to combat bovine tuberculosis
and/or brucellosis, and:

http://www.gers-gascogne.com/ovidentia/index.php?tg=oml&
file=publication/fich.html&art=1211&cat=33

— deals with a disease for which an outbreak has been formally

recognised by the public authorities,

Aid No: XA 345/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

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

Ayudas para la repoblación ganadera de reproductores bovinos
sacrificados por motivo de saneamiento oficial

Legal basis:

Orden de 2008, del Departamento de Agricultura, Alimentación
y Acción Rural, por la cual se aprueban las bases reguladoras de
las ayudas para la reposición de animales reproductores bovinos
sacrificados por motivos de saneamiento oficial y se convocan
las correspondientes al año 2008

— is part of a compulsory programme at Community, national
or regional level for the prevention or erradication of the
disease,

— will not be granted for measures for which the cost is to be

borne by the agricultural holding,

— are not diseases in respect of which Community legislation

provides for specific charges for control measures,

— all the animals on the holding must have been slaughtered
for official health reasons in 2007 and 2008. The animals to
be replaced may have been lost in 2007. Therefore, the
scheme meets the condition laid down in Article 10(8) of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 as it will be introduced
within three years following the occurrence of the loss and
the aid will be paid out within four years following the
occurrence.

Only agricultural holdings that are considered to be micro,
small or medium-sized enterprises may benefit from this aid

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Sector(s) concerned: Beef, dairy or Lidia cattle breeding, NACE
codes 01.41 (Raising of dairy cattele) and 01.42 (Raising of
other cattle and buffaloes)

Name and address of granting authority:

Departamento de Agricultura, Alimentación y acción Rural de la
Generalitat de Catalunya
Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes nos 612-614
E-08007 Barcelona

Website:

http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/DAR/TR_Tramits/TR01_Ajuts%
20i%20subvencions/DAR_05%20Ajus%20pendents%
20publicacio/Documents/Fitxers%20estatics/2008267.pdf

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 349/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme:

Concessione di contributi per le spese relative alla tenuta dei
Libri Genealogici e per lo svolgimento dei controlli funzionali
del bestiame

Legal basis:

Delibera della Giunta Regionale n. 1117 del 12.9.2008 «Criteri e
modalità di concessione dei contributi previsti dall'art. 1 della legge
regionale n. 36/2000 in adeguamento alle disposizioni di regolamento
(CE) n. 1857/2006 della Commissione» e articolo 1 della legge
della Regione Liguria 4 agosto 2000 n. 36 «Norme in materia di
associazioni allevatori»

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: The Govern-
ment allocates the amount to the Region annually on the basis
of
livestock
houses and environmental and production conditions in the
zone and the amount for 2008 has been fixed at EUR 748 250

the number of animals tested,

the number of

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum intensity of the aid
provided for in Article 1 of Regional Law No 36 of 4 August
2000 is 100 % of eligible expenditure on maintaining herd
books and 70 % of eligible expenditure on genetic yield testing
(Article 16(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006)

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

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid: The aid for maintaining herd books covers
the cost of carrying out tests and processing the data obtained;
that
for carrying out genetic yield tests covers the cost of
conducting tests, processing the data and disseminating the
information gathered to livestock farmers.

These incentives, provided for in Article 1 of Regional Law
No 36 of 4 August 2000, are granted under Article 16(1)(a)
and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 at a rate of up to
100 % of eligible administrative costs connected with main-
taining herd books and registers and of up to 70 % of the cost
of tests to determine the yield of livestock, with the exception
of tests undertaken by the owner of the livestock and routine
tests of milk quality

Sector(s) concerned: The aid is paid to all livestock holdings in
Liguria via the associations of livestock farmers

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Liguria
Dipartimento Agricoltura Protezione Civile e Turismo
Via G. D'Annunzio 113
I-16121 Genova

Website:

For Decision No 1117 of 12 September 2008:

http://www.agriligurianet.it/Agrinet/DTS_GENERALE/
20080916/dgr08_1117.pdf

For Regional Law No 36/2000:

http://www.regione.liguria.it/leggi/dos/20000036.htm