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: 2009-01-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Lorraine, State aid, agricultural holding, control of State aid, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Official Journal of the European Union

15.1.2009

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 10/08)

Aid No: XA 283/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Moselle

Title of aid scheme:

Aide au remplacement (assistance technique)

Legal basis:

Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Articles L 1511-2 et L 1511-5 du code général des collectivités
territoriales

Délibération du Conseil général de la Moselle du 15.10.2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Maximum
of EUR 40 000, according to need and depending on the
budgetary means available

Maximum aid intensity: Flat rate of 12 % of a maximum cost
of EUR 130 per day, for a maximum of 14 days, and EUR 910
per beneficiary per year

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

for

scheme: Three

Duration of
from the date of
acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the
corresponding funds being available)

years

Objective and type of aid: The aim of this scheme will be to
contribute to the costs (except replacement costs benefiting

from tax credits) associated with replacing farmers on holdings
due to ill health, accident, paternity or maternity leave or repre-
sentation and training for young farmers, for up to 14 days
per year over three years.

All the conditions laid down in Article 15 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 will be met

Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural holdings
(farmers or groups of farmers)

in Moselle

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle
Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire
Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural (SAEN)
Hôtel du Département
1, rue du Pont Moreau
BP 11096
F-57036 Metz cedex 1

Website:

http://www.cg57.fr/front/go.do?sid=site/environnement_107642
9797630/gestion_de_l_espace/agriculture

Other information: To ensure strict compliance with the limits
laid down in Community regulations for each type of aid, the
level of aid will, where necessary, be reduced to the amount
contributed by other public financial backers.

Aid will be restricted to producer groups that have not benefited
from similar aid in the previous five years and to those that
have paid off the balance of previous cases