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: 2009-03-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Galicia, Ireland, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, exchange of information, farming sector, livestock farming

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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 57/02)

Aid No: XA 412/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Galicia

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas a asociaciones e entidades sin
animo de lucro de criadores de la raza de Caballo de Pura Raza
Gallega

Legal basis: Ayudas para asistencia técnica y para promover
prácticas innovadoras en el ámbito de la cría de los animales
basadas en programas de reproducción de caballos de Pura Raza
Gallega, entre ejemplares de diferentes criadores se convocan
para el año 2009

planned

under

the

scheme:

Annual
EUR 150 000

expenditure

Maximum aid intensity:

100 % of the eligible investment for aid for technical assistance.

40 % of eligible investment to promote programmes to inter-
breed livestock held by different breeders

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: Until 31 December 2009

Objective of aid:

The scheme provides for aid for:

1. technical assistance, as provided for in Article 15(2)(a), (c)

and (d) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006;

2. to promote innovative animal breeding practices based on
breeding programmes to interbreed Pura Raza Gallega horses
held by different breeders, as provided for in Article 16(1)(c)
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Xunta de Galicia. Consellería de Medio Rural
Dirección Xeral de Produción, Industrias e Calidade Agroalimen-
taria

Website:

http://mediorural.xunta.es

http://mediorural.xunta.es/externos/orde_prg_2009.pdf

Other information:

E-mail address:

dxpica.mrural@xunta.es

gerardo.rivero.cuesta@xunta.es

Santiago de Compostela, 14 November 2009.

O secretario xeral

Alberte SOUTO SOUTO

Aid No: XA 413/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunidad Valenciana

Name of company receiving an individual aid: Asociaciones
de Ganaderos de Bovino y Caprino Lechero de las razas Frisona
y Murciano-Granadina inscritas en los Libro Genealógicos corre-
spondientes que realizan el control lechero oficial en la Comu-
nidad Valenciana. Las asociaciones que lo llevan a cabo, están
reconocidas oficialmente y cuentan con los medios y personal
necesario para el desarrollo del control oficial lechero

Legal basis: Orden de la Consellera de Agricultura Pesca y
Alimentación, que modifica la Orden de 5 de mayo de 2006
por la que se aprueban las bases reguladoras de las ayudas al
control oficial lechero del rendimiento lechero para la evalua-
ción genética de las hembras de las especies bovina, ovina y
caprina y se convocan las ayudas para 2008

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 60 000 in 2008

Maximum aid intensity: 70 % of the total cost of recording
milk yields

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Date of implementation: From the date on which the registra-
tion number of
the exemption request is published on the
website of the European Commission's Directorate-General for
Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of individual aid award: 2008

Objective of aid: The aid is to help cover the cost of carrying
out official milk yield recording so that this does not affect the
profitability of the holdings concerned. Milk yield recording is a
vital tool for developing selection programmes for dairy animals
and a structure is needed within which to organise this. By
applying a number of basic criteria, yield tests of breeding
animals entered in herd books provide a basis for a genetic
evaluation of the breed, which can then be used in selection
programmes to improve livestock quality. The tests also provide
data that can be used to plan support for the sector. The aid is
in accordance with Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and (3) of Commis-
sion 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
and amending Regulation (EC)
of
No 70/2001 (OJ L 358, 16.12.2006). Expenditure on planned
technical assistance for carrying out official yield recording is
eligible for aid

agricultural products

Sector(s) concerned: Holdings in the Autonomous Community
of Valencia with dairy cattle and goats of
the Frisian and
Murciano-Granadina breeds listed in the official herd books for
the breeds

Name and address of the granting authority:

Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Amadeo de Saboya, 2
E-46010 Valencia

Other information: —

Website:

http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/
rendimiento%20lechero2008.pdf

Valencia, 14 July 2008.

La directora general de Producción Agraria

Laura Peñarroya FABREGAT

Legal basis:

Propuesta de Resolución del Secretario Autonómico de la
Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación por la que se
concede una subvención nominativa a Intercoop de Castellon

Ley 15/2007, de 27 de diciembre, de la Generalitat, de Presu-
puestos para el ejercicio 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
individual
EUR 61 000 for the 2008 financial year

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

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 scheme or individual aid award: Individual aid
— 2008 financial year

Objective of aid:

Aid for activities to promote rural development in the inner-
most districts of the province of Castellón by improving the
quality of certain production processes. A104. Animal produc-
tion:

— project for goat's milk and derivatives thereof in the areas of

Maestrazgo and Palancia,

— Pormasa Project (pigmeat in Maestrazgo).

Article 14(2)(a).

Eligible costs: 100 %

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock sector in the innermost districts
of the province of Castellón

Name and address of granting authority:

Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Calle Amadeo de Saboya, no 2
E-46010 Valencia

Website:

http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/
INTERCOOP%202008.pdf

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 424/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Aid No: XA 446/08

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Northern Ireland

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Grupo Intercoop Intercooperación Agroalimentaria
S.L.

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Northern Ireland Fallen Stock Scheme 2009

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Legal basis:

The Scheme is non-statutory.

Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 laying down health rules
intended for human
concerning animal by-products not
consumption requires Member States
adequate
arrangements are in place to enable animal by-products to be
disposed of in accordance with the Regulation

to ensure

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

1 January 2009-31 March 2009: GBP 305 000.

Total: GBP 305 000

Maximum aid intensity:

The aid intensity for transport costs of having carcases of fallen
stock collected from holdings by an approved contractor is up
to 100 % in accordance with Article 16(d) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006.

The aid intensity for
rendering or
incineration of carcases by an approved contractor is up to 75 %
in
(EC)
No 1857/2006

accordance with Article 16(d)

the disposal costs of

of Regulation

Date of implementation: 1 January 2009 or on publication of
the scheme on the Commission's website, whichever is later

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The Scheme
will commence on 1 January 2009 or on publication of the
scheme on the Commission's website, whichever is later. The
scheme will close on 31 March 2009. The last date for applica-
tions will be 31 March 2009

Objective of aid:

The Northern Ireland Fallen Stock Scheme 2009 is intended to
replace the Northern Ireland Fallen Stock Scheme XA 407 with
effect from 1 January 2009 or on publication of the scheme on
the Commission's website, whichever is later.

XA 407 will be withdrawn from the date the Northern Ireland
Fallen Stock Scheme 2009 takes effect. Applicants to the
Northern Ireland Fallen Stock Scheme 2009 will be refused
assistance if they have already received aid under XA 407 in
respect of the same eligible costs.

The Northern Ireland Fallen Stock Scheme 2009 pursues the
same objectives XA 407 i.e. to provide a state-aided voluntary
subscription system for collection and disposal of fallen stock in
compliance with Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 to Northern
Irish SMEs active in the production of livestock for the collec-
tion and disposal of fallen stock in Northern Ireland. However
the parameters of the assistance are now to be extended to
include the disposal of fallen bovines between 24-48 months
from 1 January 2009. The collection and disposal of fallen
bovines between 24-48 months was not included in XA 407

Name and address of the granting authority:

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Environmental Policy Branch
Room 654
Dundonald House
Upper Newtownards Road
BT4 3SB Belfast
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom

The organisation operating the scheme is:

The National Fallen Stock Company Ltd
Stuart House
City Road
PE1 1QF Peterborough
United Kingdom

Website:

http://nfsco.co.uk/news/press-releases/northern-ireland-members/

Other information:

The Northern Ireland Fallen Stock Scheme was notified under
block exemption procedures and was allocated XA number
XA 407/08. This Scheme is now to be extended to include the
disposal of
from
1 January 2009. A further GBP 65 000 has been allocated to
the Scheme for this purpose giving a total budget allocation of
GBP 305 000 for the Scheme. XA 407/08 will close when the
extended Scheme comes into effect from 1 January 2009.

fallen bovines between 24-48 months

The aid intensity for transport costs of having carcasses of fallen
stock collected from holdings by an approved contractor is up
to 100 % in accordance with Article 16(d) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006.

The aid intensity for the disposal costs of rendering or incinera-
tion of carcasses is up to 75 % in accordance with Article 16(d)
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Further and more detailed information relating to eligibility and
rules for the scheme can be found in the web link above

Aid No: XA 452/08

Member State: Eire/Ireland

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Provision of technical support to SME's active in the
primary production of agricultural products

Legal basis: An Bord Bia Acts 1994 to 2004

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

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 %

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Date of implementation: 12 January 2009

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock and horticulture sectors

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2012

Objective of aid:

To provide technical support to primary producers, for eligible
costs
incurred in carrying out activities permitted under
Article 15(2) of the Regulation.

Articles 15(3) and 15(4) of
respected

the Regulation will be fully

Name and address of the granting authority:
An Bord Bia
Clanwilliam Court
Lower Mount Street
Dublin 2
Ireland

Website:
www.bordbia.ie/industryservices-technicalsupport

Other information: —