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: 2009-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, France, Poland, State aid, agricultural equipment, agricultural production, clean technology, 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

(2009/C 1/06)

Aid No: XA 295/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Manche

Title of aid scheme:

Aides aux coopératives d'utilisation en commun de matériel
agricole (CUMA) pour les hangars

Legal basis:

Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Articles L 1511 et suivants du code général des collectivités
territoriales

Articles L 3231-2 et L 3232-17 du code général des collectivités
territoriales

Délibérations du Conseil général de la Manche des 6 et
8 février 2008

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le président du Conseil Général de la Manche
Direction des affaires économiques et du développement rural,
Service du développement rural
Maison du département
Rond-point de la liberté
50008 Saint-Lo Cedex
FRANCE

Website:

http://www.cg50.fr/economie/economie/agriculture.asp

Aid No: XA 296/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Manche

Convention entre l'État et le département relative à la nouvelle
ruralité du 8 décembre 2004 et avenant du 7 novembre 2007

Title of aid scheme:

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 54 000
in aid (maximum)

Aides à l'achat de matériels à vocation environnementale par des
Coopératives d'Utilisation de Matériels en Commun (CUMA)

Maximum aid intensity: 30 % of the investment, subject to an
aid ceiling of EUR 45 000 per investment

Legal basis:

Date of implementation: From the publication of the registra-
tion number of the request for exemption on the site of the
Commission's Directorate-General
for Agriculture and Rural
Development

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: To promote group investment and to lower
production costs by facilitating the construction, purchase,
modernisation, renovation and extension of sheds designed to
house agricultural equipment purchased by cooperatives for the
pooled use of agricultural equipment

Sector(s) concerned: All
in the
Department, regardless of which primary agricultural produc-
tion sector they belong to

the CUMA (cooperatives)

Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Articles L 1511 et suivants du code général des collectivités
territoriales

Articles L 3231-2 et L 3232-17 du code général des collectivités
territoriales

Délibérations du Conseil général de la Manche des 6 et
8 février 2008

Convention entre l'État et le département relative à la nouvelle
ruralité du 8 décembre 2004 et avenant du 7 novembre 2007

Annual
expenditure
EUR 400 000 in aid (maximum)

planned

under

the

scheme:

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Maximum aid intensity: From 5 % to 40 % of the total eligible
cost, depending on whether or not another public financing
body is involved.

The general council will ensure that the rate of 40 % is never
exceeded where there is a cumulation of aid

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

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: This scheme falls within the scope of Article 4
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The aim of this scheme will be to facilitate the purchase of
equipment to promote a collective rural development dynamic,
in particular in relation to renewable energy sources and the
improvement of environmental cultivation conditions on farms.
In the context of such projects, the following equipment could
be eligible: post hole diggers, post drivers, picket splitters, picket
filers, roadsweepers, barbed-wire winding machines, hoes, cattle
dips, flail hedge-trimmers, timber shredders and mobile live-
stock manure treatment units

in the
Sector(s) concerned: All
Department, regardless of which primary agricultural produc-
tion sector they belong to

the CUMA (cooperatives)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le président du Conseil général de la Manche
Direction des affaires économiques et du développement rural
Service du développement rural
Maison du département
Rond-point de la liberté
50008 Saint-Lo cedex
FRANCE

Website:

http://www.cg50.fr/economie/economie/agriculture.asp

http://www.cg50.fr/economie/economie/iso_album/080415_cuma_
cg_1.pdf

Aid No: XA 330/08

Member State: Poland

Region: Whole country

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

Program pomocy dla rodzin rolniczych, w których gospo-
darstwach rolnych powstały szkody spowodowane przez suszę
lub huragan w 2008 r.

Legal basis:

Uchwała Rady Ministrów z dnia 26 sierpnia 2008 r. w sprawie
ustanowienia Programu pomocy, dla rodzin rolniczych, w
których gospodarstwach rolnych powstały szkody spowodowane
przez suszę lub huragan w 2008 r.

and

Article 11 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 (OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 3)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company: The
planned volume of national budget resources for all forms of
farm aid under the scheme in 2008 may total PLN 245 million

Maximum aid intensity: The total amount of aid per holding
may not exceed, in the case of damage by:

1. drought:

(a) 80 % of the loss of income calculated by the regional
governor in accordance with Article 11(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006; or

(b) 90 % of the loss of income calculated by the regional
governor in accordance with Article 11(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006 for holdings located in mountain
regions and other less favoured areas (LFA) as defined in
the rules on support for rural development cofinanced
by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Develop-
ment or in Natura 2000 areas and areas involved in
implementation of the Water Framework Directive;

2. hurricanes to livestock buildings, storage buildings, glass-
houses and other agricultural buildings and structures and
agricultural tractors, machinery and equipment:

(a) 80 % of the gross aid intensity referred to in Article 11(6)
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, calculated according
to the costs actually incurred;

(b) 90 % of the gross aid intensity referred to in Article 11(6)
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, calculated according
in less favoured areas
to the costs actually incurred,
(LFAs) as defined in the rules on rural development
support cofinanced by the European Agricultural Fund
for Rural Development or in Natura 2000 areas and
areas involved in implementation of the Water Frame-
work Directive

Date of implementation: From 6 October 2008

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 August
2009

Objective of aid: To help farming families
to overcome
temporary financial difficulties caused by crop damage resulting
from drought or hurricane damage to livestock buildings,
storage buildings, glasshouses and other agricultural buildings
and structures and agricultural tractors, machinery and equip-
ment,
in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

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Name and address of the granting authority:

Form of aid

Bodies

Address

Agricultural tax credits

Local authorities

Aid for interest payments on disaster loans Agencja Restrukturyzacji

i Moder-

nizacji Rolnictwa

According
holding

to location of

00-175 Warszawa
al. Jana Pawła II 70

Reductions and exemptions in respect of
the payment of social security contribu-
tions and the settlement of related arrears
in the form of the deferment of deadlines
for the payment of contributions or the
division of payments into easy instalments

Deferment of payments under sale and
rental contracts without application of
charges and interest for the duration of the
deferment and reductions and exemptions
in respect of charges for rental leases

Kasa Rolniczego Ubezpieczenia
Społecznego

00-608 Warszawa
al. Niepodległości 190

Agencji Nieruchomości Rolnych

00-215 Warszawa
ul. Dolańskiego 2

Welfare assistance in the form of a one-off
payment

Ośrodki pomocy społecznej

According to the farmer's
place of residence

Aid for certified seed

Agencja Rynku Rolnego

00-400 Warszawa
ul. Nowy Świat 6/12

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Website:

www.minrol.gov.pl under
‘Pomoc dla rodzin rolniczych, w
których gospodarstwach rolnych powstały szkody spowodowane
przez suszę lub huragan w 2008 r.’

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 342/08

Member State: Denmark

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

Projekt Opdræt

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 1 750 000

individual

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, by gathering,
generating and disseminating information so as to ensure more
uniform quality among hens to increase productivity in the
laying period.

The final beneficiaries are poultry breeders and farmers produ-
cing eggs for breeding and human consumption. 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

Sector(s) concerned: Poultry sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Fjerkræafgiftsfonden
Axeltorv 3
1609 København V
DANMARK

Website:

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

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Other information: —