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: 2009-04-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Germany, Italy, State aid, animal disease, control of State aid, environmental protection, exchange of information, farming sector, heritage protection








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21.4.2009   


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Official Journal of the European Union


C 91/8





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 91/04

Aid No: XA 279/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Moselle

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux investissements collectifs en CUMA (coopératives d'utilisation de matériel agricole)

Legal basis: Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006
Article 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 400 000, according to need and depending on the budgetary means available.

Maximum aid intensity: 







 


Beneficiaries other than young farmers
(percentage of young farmers in the CUMA (cooperative for the use of agricultural equipment) below or equal to 70 % )


Young farmers (1)

(percentage of young farmers above or equal to 70 %)




Less-favoured areas + protected development areas


30 %


40 %




Plain areas


20 %


30 %




The amount of aid should not exceed the maximum aid intensity allowed.

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

Duration of scheme: Three years from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the corresponding funds being available).

Objective and type of aid: The objective of this aid scheme is environmental protection, within the meaning of Article 4(3)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

List of eligible agricultural equipment for environmental purposes: 






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Soil working equipment: plant shredders, rotating shredders, rotating mowers, hoes, weeders, decompactors, tooth and disc stubble cleaners and seeders to facilitate working the soil,










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Equipment for adding organic material: compost spreaders, organic matter spreaders, manure spreaders, plant shredders and slurry vats equipped with spreader systems,










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Grass working equipment: mowers, windrowers, haymakers, bale-wrappers, presses, windrow turners,










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Containment equipment.




Eligible expenditure includes: the purchase of new agricultural machinery (with the exception of replacement machinery or machinery such as tractors or sprayers) and the construction, purchase or extension of premises used to carry out CUMA activities or to store equipment or machinery.

Sector(s) concerned: All the CUMA in the Moselle irrespective of what their members produce.

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




57036 Metz Cedex 1




FRANCE





Website: http://www.cg57.fr/front/getFile.do?name=R%E9duction+des+co%FBts+de+m%E9canisation+pour+des++investissements+collectifs+en+CUMA+-+XA+279%2F2008&application=wcm-upload-files&file=DLDDBKHKHLNKMLGKBKAPCLMLPDCLHOFKICJLEKMLNLKKELNLGKPLPLNPELCKBKHNAPIOHPGOBOIOFOMPNPJOEOAODPFPJOILFKML

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 purchases.

Aid No: XA 281/08

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Moselle

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux investissements en vue de la réhabilitation agro-environnementale des zones du massif des Vosges et des espaces patrimoniaux dégradés.

Legal basis: Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006
Article 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 expenditure of EUR 200 000 per year, according to need and depending on the budgetary funds available.

Maximum aid intensity: 







 


Beneficiaries other than young farmers


Young farmers (2)





Areas other than less-favoured areas


40 %


50 %




Less-favoured areas and mountain areas


50 %


60 %




EUR 30 000 for massif and piedmont areas
The amount of aid should not exceed the maximum intensity of the authorised aid.

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

Duration of scheme: three years from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the corresponding funds being available).

Objective and type of aid: Within the meaning of Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, the objective is to rehabilitate and reclaim land that is abandoned or areas that are not built upon so they can be used for agriculture, in the context of an overall land policy adopted at department level. These operations can take the form of widening a valley floor or clearing hill sides or piedmont for the purpose of reintroducing agriculture or grazing or to cultivate fruit trees.

Sector(s) concerned: All farmers in the Moselle region
ASA and shared-cost actions (SCA)

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




Service de l'Agriculture et des Espaces Naturels




Hôtel du Département




1, rue du Pont Moreau




BP 11096




57036 Metz Cedex 1




FRANCE





Website: http://www.cg57.fr/front/getFile.do?name=R%E9habilitation+agro-environnementale+des+zones+du+Massif+des+Vosges+et+des+espaces+patrimoniaux+d%E9grad%E9s+%28assistance+technique+et+investissement%29+-+Production+primaire+-+XA+281%2F2008&application=wcm-upload-files&file=DLDDNKDLGLALJLAKLLBLFKKLLKIKHOJKGKIKKKHLKLPKMLLLAKOLPLGLJKDKJKMLAKGLAKMPEKNLDLGNOPCODOHOBPHPGPIPDPDOHPGOEOIOBOHOPLELHL

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 by the amount contributed by other public financial backers.
Aid will be restricted to farmers who have not benefited from similar aid in the previous five years, with the exception of those who have settled previous cases.

Aid No: 284/2008

Member State: France

Region: Département de la Moselle

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux audits sanitaires des élevages et aux programmes pluriannuels d'intervention

Legal basis: Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006
Article 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 expenditure of EUR 2 000 100, according to need and depending on the budgetary means available.

Maximum aid intensity: Maximum aid rate of 80 % (100 % for young farmers), with an annual ceiling of EUR 450 for auditing activites (according to needs and depending on availability of funds).

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

Duration of scheme: Three years from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the corresponding funds being available).

Objective and type of aid: This aid scheme falls under Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The department will put in place an aid programme to provide farmers with health assistance for animal disease prevention (paratubercolosis, BVD, IBR and Q fever) and good practices to improve health conditions in livestock holdings.
The aim of this aid scheme is to encourage appropriate and efficient health monitoring by auditing animal health and well-being in holdings.
In the case of young farmers, the services proposed will be more comprehensive so as to allow them to adopt an appropriate and efficient health monitoring system from the very start.
The aid will be granted in the form of subsidised services available to all livestock farmers regardless of whether they belong to a producers′ organisation or another structure.

Sector(s) concerned: All livestock holdings in Moselle (farmers, groups of farmers and cooperatives for the use of agricultural equipment (CUMA))

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




57036 Metz cedex 1




FRANCE





Website: http://www.cg57.fr/front/getFile.do?name=Audit+sanitaire+et+programme+pluriannuel+d%27interventions+sur+les+%E9levages+%28assistance+technique%29+-+XA+284%2F2008&application=wcm-upload-files&file=AMPMBMLNAMJPGMIMBMJNFMCNNMENCMIOEMOMFOCMGMGNCNJOPNMNEMBMNMHMJMGMBOPNJMHNCMINCNMMBOAKFLFLLNHPFPKPJPOONPKODOJOFOLPJPFOBONPELCKBK

Other information: The level of aid may, where necessary, be reduced to the amount contributed by other public financial backers.

Aid No: XA 384/08

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Saxony

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Gewährung von Beihilfen und sonstigen Leistungen durch die Sächsische Tierseuchenkasse nach den Artikeln 10 und 15 der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1857/2006

Legal basis: 






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§ 71 Tierseuchengesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland










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§§ 6, 7 und 18 Sächsisches Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierseuchengesetz (SächsAGTierSG)










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Leistungsansatz der Sächsischen Tierseuchenkasse





Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company:: Total aid amounting to EUR 16,5 million (financed from contributions paid by livestock owners who are members of the Saxony animal diseases fund and from federal state resources) and EUR 3,9 million in costs to be covered by the federal state in accordance with § 25, No 1, SächsAGTierSG

Maximum aid intensity: up to 100 %

Date of implementation: as of the date of receipt from the European Commission, pursuant to Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, of the notice of receipt with an identification number

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: until 31 August 2011

Objective of aid: Article 10(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006
aid to combat animal diseases
aid to compensate for livestock losses resulting from infectious diseases
aid for measures to prevent, detect and combat animal diseases
aid in the form of payment of the costs of laboratory tests to detect animal diseases
Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006
tests ordered to be carried out by the animal health services
consultancy services provided by the animal health services

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture/livestock farming

Name and address of the granting authority: 





Sächsische Tierseuchenkasse




Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts




Löwenstraße 7 a




01099 Dresden




GERMANY




E-mail: info@tsk-sachsen.de





Website: Tierseuchengesetz (Law on animal diseases)
http://www.tsk-sachsen.de/Programme/tiersg.pdf
Sächsisches Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierseuchengesetz
http://www.tsk-sachsen.de/Programme/SaechsAGTierSG.pdf
Leistungsansatz der Sächsischen Tierseuchenkasse
http://www.tsk-sachsen.de/Programme/Leistungssatzung.pdf

Other information: None

Aid No: 421/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Umbria

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Assistenza tecnica nel settore zootecnico

Legal basis: Deliberazione della Giunta regionale 1o dicembre 2008, n. 1652 e s.m.i. concernente ‘Programma regionale assistenza tecnica zootecnica’ Reg. (CE) n. 1857/2006.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 0,30 million over a three-year period

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of eligible costs

Date of implementation: As of 1 January 2009 and, in any case, 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: 

Objective of aid: Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: NACE Code: A104 – Animal production

Name and address of the granting authority: 





Regione Umbria




Via Mario Angeloni, 61




06124 Perugia




ITALIA





Website: http://www.regione.umbria.it

The full text of the aid scheme (Regional Executive Decision No 1652/2008 and subsequent amendments and additions) is available at: www.regione.umbria.it
click on ‘Aree Tematiche’,
click on ‘Agricoltura e Foreste’ on your left,
under ‘Ultime Notizie’, click on ‘Assistenza Tecnica nel Settore Zootecnico’.

Other information: –


(1)  The supplementary aid rates for young farmers, within the meaning of Article 2(11) of the agricultural exemption regulation, is reserved for investments made by young farmers within five years of their establishment.

(2)  The supplementary aid rates for young farmers, within the meaning of Article 2(11) of the agricultural exemption regulation, is reserved for investments made by young farmers within five years of their establishment.