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: 2009-03-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, State aid, animal disease, control of State aid, exchange of information, livestock farming, natural disaster

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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 56/06)

Aid No: XA 287/08

— Under Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006:

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Bayern

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Gewährung von Leistungen durch die Bayerische
Tierseuchenkasse nach der ‘Satzung über die Leistungen der
Bayerischen Tierseuchenkasse (Leistungssatzung)’

Legal basis:

— § 71 Tierseuchengesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

— Art. 5 Abs. 2, Art. 5 b Abs. 2 des Gesetzes über den Vollzug

des Tierseuchenrechts des Freistaats Bayern

— Satzung über die Leistungen der Bayerischen Tierseuchen-

kasse (Leistungssatzung)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Some
EUR 19,7 million (financed from livestock keepers' contribu-
tions to the Bayerische Tierseuchenkasse)

Maximum aid intensity: Up to the maximum of 100 %

Date of implementation: The aid will be granted from the date
of publication of the summary description of the aid scheme on
the Internet

— aid to compensate for losses incurred by farmers as the

result of animal diseases.

The beneficiaries are small and medium-sized enterprises within
the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The aid does not cover measures the cost of which are to be
borne by the agricultural holdings themselves under Community
law.

Aid under Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will
not be granted as direct payments to agricultural holdings but
as subsidised services. The Bayerische Tierseuchenkasse will
assume the costs of the services and pay the service-providers.
The gross aid intensity will not exceed 100 %.

The services are essentially veterinary activities and analysis
costs linked to the performance of health checks, tests and other
early detection measures, vaccinations and subsidising the cost
of purchasing vaccines.

Aid under Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 is
calculated using the market value of the animals killed by the
disease or culled by public order as part of a compulsory public
prevention or eradication programme. The aid is restricted to
losses resulting from animal diseases the outbreak of which has
been formally recognised by the authorities. The gross aid inten-
sity will not exceed 100 %

Sector(s) concerned: All holdings keeping cattle, horses, pigs,
sheep, chickens or turkeys in Bavaria

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 January
2009-31 December 2013

Name and address of the granting authority:

Objective of aid:

Aid to combat animal diseases under Article 10(1) and (2) of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

— Under Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006:

— aid for measures to prevent, detect and eradicate animal

diseases,

Bayerische Tierseuchenkasse
Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts
Arabellastraße 29
D-81925 München
E-mail: info@btsk.de

Websites:

For legal bases:

— Tierseuchengesetz:

— aid to cover the cost of laboratory diagnostic measures

to detect animal diseases.

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bundesrecht/viehseuchg/
gesamt.pdf

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— Gesetz über den Vollzug des Tierseuchenrechts:

http://portal.versorgungskammer.de/portal/page/portal/btsk/
btskrg/tierseuchengesetz-vollzug.pdf

For aid scheme:

— Satzung über die Leistungen der Bayerischen Tierseuchen-

kasse (Leistungssatzung):

http://portal.versorgungskammer.de/portal/page/portal/btsk/
btskrg/leistungssatzung2009.pdf

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 363/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de l'Aude

Title of aid scheme: aides aux coûts de réalisation de la vacci-
nation et de dépistage virologique des animaux dans le cadre de
la lutte contre la fièvre catarrhale ovine (FCO)

Legal basis:

Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006,

Arrêtés du ministre de l'agriculture et de la pêche du 29 août,
19, 24 septembre et 27 octobre 2008 modifiant l'arrêté du
1er avril 2008 définissant les zones réglementées relatives à la
FCO,

Union. A cross check between the State services (Depart-
mental Directorates for Agriculture and Forestry (DDAF) and
the Departmental Directorates
for Veterinary Services
(DDSV)) and the services of the Conseil général de l'Aude will
be carried out to ensure compliance with the aid ceiling of
100 %.

However, the provision of vaccines is not eligible under this
Regulation because it is paid for entirely by the State and the
European Union,

— 50 % of the cost (excluding tax) of virological examinations,
but no more than EUR 25 excluding tax per virological
examination.

The aid will be granted in kind by means of subsidised services,
in accordance with Article 10(1)
of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Cattle, sheep and goats

Name and address of the granting authority:

Conseil Général de l'Aude
Allée Raymond Courrière
F-11855 Carcassonne — Cedex 9

Website:

http://www.cg11.fr/contenu/c_communique_vaccination.asp

Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure
in the veterinary field,

Aid No: XA 367/08

Délibération du 24 octobre 2008 du Conseil général de l'Aude,

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

à

la

convention

Avenant
du
19 novembre 2007 relative aux tarifs des opérations de prophy-
laxie collective, fixant le tarif de rémunération des vaccinations
obligatoires dans le cadre de la FCO

départementale

bipartite

expenditure

Annual
scheme:
planned
EUR 166 000 for the entire operation (vaccinations and virolo-
gical screening)

under

the

Maximum aid intensity: The intervention rate is 50 % of the
cost of vaccination for serotypes 1 and 8 and 50 % of the costs
of virological screening

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the
registration number of the request for exemption on the website
of
for Agriculture and
Rural Development

the Commission's Directorate-General

Duration of scheme: November 2008 to the end of 30 April
2009

Objective of aid:

In order to boost the effectiveness of the national anti-blue
tongue disease programme,
in addition to various measures
taken to monitor and supervise the disease, the Conseil général de
l'Aude wishes to assist the cattle, sheep and goat breeding indus-
tries by bearing:

— 50 % of

(excluding tax) of administering the
vaccine, in addition to aid from the State and the European

the cost

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

in der

Fassung

Legal basis: § 3 des Gesetzes über die Landwirtschaftliche
Rentenbank
vom
4. September 2002 (BGBl. I S. 3646), zuletzt geändert durch
Artikel 174 der Verordnung vom 31. Oktober 2006 (BGBI. I S.
2407) in Verbindung mit der Programminformation Nachhaltig-
keit und dem Merkblatt Beihilfen

der Bekanntmachung

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company: Soft
loans are to be granted. The planned value of the loan aid is
EUR 12 million

Maximum aid intensity: A maximum 20 % of eligible costs.
The maximum amount of aid granted to a single enterprise may
not exceed EUR 400 000 in any one period of three financial
years. In the event of cumulation with other public funding in
relation to the same eligible costs the thresholds stipulated in
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be complied with

Date of implementation: In accordance with the deadline in
Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, but no earlier
than 17 November 2008

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2014

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Objective of aid: Support
to SMEs active in the primary
production of agricultural products as referred to in Annex I to
the EC Treaty (with the exception of fisheries and aquaculture)
by aiding investment in the primary production of agricultural
products. Investment to protect and improve the natural envir-
onment or
improve hygiene conditions or animal welfare.
Investment to improve the quality of production (Article 4 of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006). Eligible costs are (a)
the
construction, acquisition or improvement of immovable prop-
erty;
the purchase or lease-purchase of machinery and
equipment, including computer software up to the market value
of the asset; or (c) general costs linked to expenditure under
points (a) and (b), such as architects, engineers and consultation
fees, feasibility studies. There are guarantees to ensure that the
aid is not granted in contravention of the bans or restrictions
laid down in the Council Regulations establishing the common
market organisations, even where the bans and restrictions
relate only to Community aid

(b)

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture, wine, horticulture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
Hochstraße 2
D-60313 Frankfurt am Main

Website:

www.rentenbank.de/landwirtschaft/nachhaltigkeit

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 383/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Veneto

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual
sviluppo dell'agricoltura di
montagna

aid: Consolidamento e

Legal basis:

Articoli 6-7-9-15-16-17 della legge regionale del 18 gennaio
1994 n. 2 «Provvedimenti per il consolidamento e lo sviluppo
dell'agricoltura di montagna e la tutela e valorizzazione dei terri-
tori montani». Il testo coordinato della legge è pubblicato sul
sito del Consilio Regionale del Veneto.

Deliberazione Giunta regionale veneto n. 2441 del 16 settembre
2008, «Adeguamento delle disposizioni applicative della L.R. del
18 gennaio 1994 n. 2 “Provvedimenti per il consolidamento e
lo sviluppo dell'agricoltura di montagna e la tutela e valorizza-
zione dei territori montani” alla normativa comunitaria. Modi-
fiche ed integrazioni alle D.G.R. 901 del 6 maggio 2008 e D.G.
R. 1440 del 6 giugno 2008».

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Annual
expenditure as established in the Financial Law approved each
year by the Regional Council. By way of indication, on average
an annual financial allocation of about EUR 800 000 is planned

Maximum aid intensity:

The aid scheme will only apply to mountain areas within the
meaning of Article 36(a)(i) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005
and as set out in the RDP Veneto 2007-2013 approved by Deci-
sion EC C(2007) 4682 of 17 October 2007.

The maximum aid intensity varies according to the different
categories and complies with the ceilings established in Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006:

— investment in agricultural holdings:

(a) 50 % up to a maximum of 55 % if made by young
farmers within five years of setting up (Articles 7 to 17
of Regional Law No 2/94);

(b) 75 % for investments to go beyond the minimum Com-
munity requirements in force, or for investments made
to comply with newly introduced minimum standards
with no increase in production capacity, that are aimed
at improving hygiene conditions or animal welfare stan-
dards (Article 9 of Regional Law No 2/94). The increase
of aid intensity up to 75 % may only apply to additional
costs resulting from investments made to comply with
newly introduced minimum standards or to meet those
in force,

— conservation of

buildings
(Article 6 of Regional Law No 2/94). Aid intensity will be
75 % for:

landscapes

traditional

and

(a) capital investments for the conservation intended for the
conservation of non-productive heritage features located
on agricultural holdings,
such as archaeological or
historical features;

(b) capital

investments for the conservation of productive
heritage features on farms of archaeological or historical
interest, which do not entail an increase in production
capacity.

The overall aid amount granted to an individual business may
not exceed EUR 500 000 paid over any period of three financial
years

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 scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2013

Objective of aid:

Il testo della deliberazione è pubblicato sul Bollettino ufficiale
della regione Veneto n. 82 del 3 ottobre 2008 a pagina 19

Sector development, competitiveness, modernisation — Article 4
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

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Eligible costs: structural works and equipment installation aimed
at improving, modernising and updating technology of farm
equipment; overheads up to 5 % of eligible expenditure.

Conservation of traditional buildings — Article 5 of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006.

Eligible costs: restructuring of rural buildings

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to the production of
agricultural products as listed in Annex I to the Treaty and
covers all the sectors of production concerned

Name and address of the granting authority:
Regione Veneto
Giunta regionale
Direzione produzioni agroalimentari
Via Torino 110
I-30174 Mestre (VE)

Website:
http://web.intra.rve/sites/segr.giunta/Shared%20Documents/
bur_internet.aspx

Aid No: XA 386/08

Member State: Hungary

Region: Magyarország

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: A nemzeti agrárkár-enyhítési rendszerről és a káre-
nyhítési hozzájárulásról szóló állami támogatási program

Legal basis:
— A nemzeti agrárkár-enyhítési rendszerről és a kárenyhítési

hozzájárulásról szóló 2008. évi … törvény-tervezet

Legal bases of aid scheme to be replaced (XA 99/07):

— A nemzeti agrárkár-enyhítési rendszerről szóló 2006. évi

LXXXVIII. törvény

— A nemzeti agrárkár-enyhítési rendszerről szóló 2006. évi
szóló

végrehajtásának

szabályairól

LXXXVIII.
törvény
88/2006. (XII. 28.) FVM rendelet

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company: The
annual expenditure planned is approximately HUF 5 billion,
comprising a producers' compensation resource contribution of
HUF 2,5 billion and a State contribution of at least the same
amount

Maximum aid intensity:
The intensity of the aid may not exceed 80 % of loss in yield
due to adverse climatic events, or 90 % in less favoured areas.

The loss in yields is to be reduced by the the compensation paid
by insurance companies and the reduction in the costs of
harvesting (the damage will lead to less crop, thus the cost of
harvesting will be proportionately smaller).

The damages contribution paid by the farmer is HUF 2 000 per
hectare per year on land used for growing fruit and vegetables
and HUF 800 per hectare per year on other land

Date of implementation: From 1 January 2009

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual aid award: Up to

Objective of aid:
Partial compensation of losses due to adverse climatic events, to
be paid to farmers whose losses exceed 30 % of the yield of the
agricultural holding.

Article 11 — Aid for losses due to adverse climatic events.

Compliance with Article 11(8) and (9) must be reached by the
prescribed deadline

Sector(s) concerned: All crop-producing sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:
Földművelésügyi és Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium
Kossuth Lajos tér 11.
H-1055 Budapest

Website:
http://www.parlament.hu/internet/plsql/ogy_irom.irom_adat?
p_ckl=38&p_izon=6686

Budapest, 4 November 2008.

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