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: 2009-02-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, State aid, animal disease, control of State aid, exchange of information, livestock farming, sheep

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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 26/08)

Aid No: XA 285/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Moselle

Title of aid scheme:

Promotion (assistance technique) dans le secteur agricole:

— aide à la communication en faveur de l'agriculture mosel-

lane,

— valorisation de l'élevage mosellan par la présentation d'ani-

maux en concours

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

planned

expenditure

scheme:
Annual
the
for
EUR 125 000,
enhancement of
livestock in Moselle (livestock shows) and
EUR 45 000 (maximum) for the provision of information on
and promotion of agriculture in Moselle

including EUR 80 000 (maximum)

under

the

Maximum aid intensity:

Aid for the provision of information on and promotion of agri-
culture in Moselle:

— rate of assistance: a maximum of 60 % of the expenses
incurred, up to EUR 750 for local operations, EUR 2 000
for cantonal operations, EUR 5 000 for operations at
department level and EUR 20 000 for regional or national
operations.

Aid for the enhancement of livestock in Moselle:

— rate of assistance: 100 %, but subsidies will be restricted to a
maximum of 20 bovine animals or 20 equines or to 3 flocks
of 8 sheep per farm per year (except the Metz Fair), and to:

— an additional EUR 70 will be granted for travel expenses
for livestock shows taking place in Lorraine, Alsace and
the cross-border area, or EUR 200 for travel expenses
for events taking place outside these regions

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 of aid:

The aim is to support the organisation of agricultural events in
Moselle and the creation and distribution of promotional
material for agriculture in Moselle, as well as to enhance live-
stock in Moselle by exhibiting animals at livestock shows.

Aid may be granted to cover the costs incurred by the partici-
pants, travel costs, costs of publications, the cost of renting exhi-
bition premises and token prizes awarded in competitions, up
to a value of EUR 250 per prize and winner.

It will be granted in kind by means of subsidised services and
must not involve direct payments of money to producers.

Aid may be granted to cover the costs of publications (cata-
information on agri-
logues or websites) presenting factual
cultural production in Moselle or on quality production,
provided that
is
presented are neutral and that all producers concerned have an
equal chance of being represented in the publication.

the information and the way in which it

In any event, the services provided by producer groups or any
organisation will be accessible to all
farmers in the area
concerned who meet the same objective criteria, at the same
cost, with no obligation to join the group or
to become
affiliated to the body

Sector(s) concerned:

— EUR 30 per bovine animal or per flock of 8 sheep,

All farmers in Moselle for the first type of aid.

— EUR 50 per equine for livestock shows and EUR 25 for

traditional horse shows,

Breeders of bovine animals, sheep and equines in Moselle for
the second type of aid

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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_
1076429797630/gestion_de_l_espace/agriculture

Aid No: XA 358/08

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Nederland

Title of aid scheme/name of company receiving individual
aid: Wijzing van de Regeling tijdelijke maatregelen dierziekten
in verband met de vaccinatie tegen Q-koorts

Legal basis: Artikel 29, eerste lid, 30, vierde lid, en 45, eerste
en derde lid, van de Diergeneesmiddelenwet, artikel 17 van de
Gezondheids- en welzijnswet voor dieren en artikel 3 van het
Besluit gebruik sera en entstoffen

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 160 000

individual

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: 20 October 2008

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 1 January
2009

Objective of aid: Q fever prevention and eradication

Sector(s) concerned: Sheep and goat sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerie van LNV
Postbus 20401
2500 EK Den Haag
Nederland

Website:

provisions to prevent the introduction of Q fever already apply
on the basis of national legislation. The vaccination strategy is
part of a national programme to prevent and control Q fever.
in accordance with paragraph 7, Q fever is an
Furthermore,
animal disease included in the OIE list. Article 10(3),(5),
(6)
and (8) have also been complied with

Aid No: XA 361/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme: Concessione di contributi per attività delle
Associazioni Allevatori della Liguria

Legal basis: Delibera Giunta Regionale
n. 1222 del
3 ottobre 2008 «Criteri e modalità di concessione dei contributi
previsti dall'art. 2 della legge regionale n. 36/2000 in adegua-
mento alle disposizioni di cui al Reg. CE n. 1857/2006 della
Commissione»

Annual
EUR 800 000 is the amount planned for 2008

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: Maximum aid intensity is 100 % of
eligible expenditure for activities under Article 14(2)(a) and
Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006; maximum aid
intensity is 40 % of eligible expenditure for activities under
Article 16(1)(c) 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
of
the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid:

The activities of the livestock associations that are eligible for
funding are:
conception and design of animal products,
providing technical assistance to train livestock farmers, consul-
tancy services (i.e. not
the costs of continuous or periodic
services, or costs that relate to the company's usual operating
expenditure), organising and taking part in competitions, exhibi-
tions and fairs, and disseminating scientific knowledge and
information on the region's animal products.

Please note with regard to this aid that:

http://www.minlnv.nl/portal/page?_pageid=116,1640321&_
dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&p_file_id=31164

— aid will be granted in the form of services and will not

involve direct cash payments to farmers,

Other information: This ministerial scheme provides for the
possibility of vaccinating sheep and goats against Q fever in
part of the Netherlands. This is necessary for the purpose of
(further) preventing Q fever owing to the high number of
infected people and animals in that area. The vaccine that may
be used for vaccination against Q fever is made available free of
charge. This form of aid complies with Article 10 of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006. In compliance with Article 10(4), other

— all

livestock farmers in Liguria are eligible for this aid,
without any requirement to be a member of an association
to have access to the service,

— aid is not provided for investment,

— aid will be granted according to the provisions of

Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

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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 Genoa

— the use of rams with damaged genital function can lead to a
high rate of non-pregnant ewes. If steps are not taken early
in the season, the production of lambs for this season may
be completely jeopardised.

In addition to the vaccination campaign (vaccines funded by the
European Union),
the regional Conseil général would like to
implement two measures to control this disease better:

Website:

— monitoring of ram semen

http://www.agriligurianet.it/Agrinet/DTS_GENERALE/
20081006/delibera1222_1.pdf

IL Direttore del Dipartimento Agricoltura, Protezione civile e Turismo

A microscopic examination can be carried out to produce a
rapid diagnosis and thus eliminate any male animals that
may have been in contact with bluetongue,

(Dr. Luca FONTANA)

— ultrasounds on ewes

Aid No: XA 371/08

Member State: France

Region: Allier

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Aides en faveur de la maîtrise de la fièvre catarrhale
ovine

Legal basis:

Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Articles 1511-1 et suivants du code général des collectivités
territoriales

Carrying out ultrasounds on ewes 4 to 6 weeks after servi-
cing makes it possible to detect non-pregnant ewes early
and thus to repeat the servicing process and eliminate any
ewes that may have been in contact with bluetongue.

Aid amounting to up to 50 % of the cost will be in the form of
subsidised services, not direct payments to producers

Sector(s) concerned: Sheep and goat sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Conseil général de l'Allier
1, avenue Victor Hugo
BP 1669
F-03016 MOULINS Cedex

Website:

http://actes-administratifs.allier.fr/actes/55954.pdf

Annual
EUR 100 000

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Other information: —

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % in compliance with the limits
set in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, i.e. 100 %
maximum

Date of implementation: From registration of the exemption
sheet by the Commission

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 2008-2009

Objective of aid:

Aid No: XA 372/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Emilia-Romagna (Camera di Commercio di Bologna)

The Department of Allier has been affected by bluetongue sero-
type 8 since 2007. The consequences of this disease are both
direct
(illness, mortality, abortions, production losses) and
indirect (temporary sterility of male animals, irregular return to
oestrus). As far as sheep farming is concerned, rams can remain
sterile for over three months before there is a complete recovery
of genital function. Rams which have shown clinical signs are
therefore unfit for the servicing season starting next September.

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Regolamento camerale per l'assegnazione alle imprese
della provincia di Bologna di contributi in conto abbattimento
interessi

Legal basis: Regolamento della Camera di Commercio di
Bologna approvato con deliberazione della Giunta camerale
n. 185 del 16 settembre 2008

Several risks are involved:

— rams may have shown furtive clinical signs that went unno-

ticed by farmers. It is highly likely that they are sterile,

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company: The
maximum annual amount for primary agricultural production is
EUR 150 000

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the eligible costs. The
Maximum aid intensity: 10 % of
amount of aid,
including that for businesses run by women,
cannot in any case exceed the limits established by Article 4 of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The average aid payment is 5 %
of eligible costs

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

Chamber of Commerce Regulation are met, calculates the aid
payable on the basis of the upper limit set by the Chamber of
Commerce for the approval of the aid application

Sector(s) concerned:

All sectors involved in primary agricultural production (land
cultivation and livestock farming).

The scheme also provides for support to other sectors to which
Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006 on de minimis aid applies

Duration of scheme: 31.12.2013

Objective of aid:

The Bologna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Craft Trades and
Agriculture, aware of the difficulties faced by local small and
medium-sized enterprises in accessing credit, provides outright
grants in the form of a single payment calculated as a propor-
tion of
the total discounted interest due on medium to
long-term bank loans, with the aim of extending the average
duration of loans and consolidating the enterprises' finances.

The investment must aim to achieve the following objectives in
particular:

(a) to reduce production costs;

(b) to improve and convert production;

(c) to improve quality;

(d) to preserve and improve the natural environment, or
improve hygiene conditions or animal welfare standards.

The scheme constitutes a form of support for investment in
farms under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

For enterprises engaged in primary agricultural production, the
following costs are eligible:

(a) construction, acquisition or

improvement of

immovable

property;

Name and address of the granting authority:

Camera di Commercio I.A.A. di Bologna
Piazza Mercanzia 4
I-40125 Bologna

Website:

http://www.bo.camcom.it/intranet/ALTRI-SERV/DIRITTO-AN/
Consorzi-F/index.htm

Other information:

this

From 2008,
scheme replaces Exemption Scheme Aid
XA 306/07, which will cease to operate once the settlements
pending for 2007 have been made

Il Presidente della Camera di Commercio di Bologna

(Bruno Filetti)

Aid No: XA 376/08

Member State: Republic of Slovenia

Region: Območje občine Podlehnik

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:
intervencije v kmetijstvo v občini
Podlehnik

Finančne

(b) purchase or lease-purchase of machinery and equipment,
including computer software, up to the market value of the
asset;

Legal basis: Pravilnik o dodeljevanju državnih pomoči za ohran-
janje in razvoj kmetijstva in podeželja v občini Podlehnik za
programsko obdobje 2008–2013

(c) overheads relating to expenditure under (a) and (b), such as
architects', engineers' and consultation fees, feasibility studies
and the acquisition of patents and licences.

Costs relating to leasing contracts other than those listed in (b),
such as tax,
interest, refinancing costs, over-
heads and insurance, are not eligible.

lessor's margins,

Simple replacement investments are not eligible. Aid may not
be granted for the manufacture of products which imitate, or
can be substituted for, milk or milk products.

Purchases may not be dated prior to the approval of the aid
application by the guarantee institutions, and are to be deducted
from the upper limit that the Chamber of Commerce has provi-
sionally assigned to these institutions in view of the resources
the
available in the accruals-based statements. The date of
approval of the aid application is considered to be the date on
which the guarantee institution, after examining the aid applica-
tion and ascertaining that all the requirements laid down in the

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:

2008: EUR 10 000

2009: EUR 10 000

2010: EUR 10 000

2011: EUR 10 000

2012: EUR 10 000

2013: EUR 10 000

Maximum aid intensity:

1. Investment in agricultural holdings for primary production:

— up to 50 % of costs for investment in less-favoured areas

(LFA),

— up to 40 % of costs for investment in other areas,

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— up to 60 % of costs for investment in LFA if the invest-
ment is made by young farmers within five years of
setting up,

— the aid is provided in the form of grants and the

co-financing of interest on loans.

2. Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings:

— up to 75 % in less-favoured areas, or up to 60 % in other
areas, for investment in means of production, provided
there is no increase in the production capacity of the
farm,

— up to 100 % of costs for

to conserve
non-productive heritage features located on agricultural
holdings,

investment

— up to 100 % of costs incurred by using traditional

materials.

3. Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums:

— up to 50 % of the costs of insurance premiums for crops,

fruit and cases of disease among animals.

4. Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products:

— up to 50 % of costs; the aid is to be provided in the form
involve direct

subsidised services and does not

of
payments of money to producers.

Reference to Articles in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and
eligible costs:
The draft Rules on granting State aid for preserving and devel-
oping agriculture and rural areas
in the municipality of
Podlehnik for
the programming period 2008-2013 include
measures constituting State aid in accordance with the following
Articles 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):

— Article 4: Investment in agricultural holdings,

— Article 5: Conservation of traditional landscapes and build-

ings,

— Article 12: Aid towards

the payment of

insurance

premiums,

— Article 14: Aid to encourage the production of quality agri-

cultural products,

— Article 15: Provision of technical support in the agricultural

sector

Sector(s) concerned: agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority:
Občina Podlehnik
Podlehnik 21
SLO-2286 Podlehnik

5. Provision of technical support:

— up to 50 % of costs concerning farmers' education and
training, consultancy services, the organisation of forums,
competitions, exhibitions, fairs, publications, catalogues
and websites, the dissemination of scientific knowledge
and the replacement of a farmer and a farmer's partner
during illness and leave,

— the aid is to be granted in the form of subsidised services
involve direct payments of money to

and does not
producers

Date of implementation: 10 November 2008 (the aid will not
be granted until a summary has been published on the
European Commission's website)

Website:
http://www.lex-localis.info/KatalogInformacij/VsebinaDokumenta.
aspx?SectionID=daf9302d-9567-40d2-8c1f-a3744dce0ec6

Other information:
The measure for the payment of insurance premiums to insure
crops and fruit includes the following adverse climatic events
which can be assimilated to natural disasters: spring frost, hail,
lightning, fire caused by lightning, storms and floods.

The municipality's Rules meet the requirements of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006 relating to the measures to be adopted by
the municipality and the general provisions applicable (steps
preceding grant of aid, cumulation, transparency and moni-
toring of aid)

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

Objective of aid: To support SMEs

individual

aid award: Until

Podpis odgovorne osebe

Miran KRAJNC
Občina Podlehnik