Summary of the information supplied by Member States on State aid granted pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2008 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production, processing and marketing of fisheries products

2010/C 261/03

Aid No: XF 8/10

Member State: Republic of Lithuania.

Region/authority granting the aid: Lietuvos Respublikos žemės ūkio ministerija

Title of aid scheme/name of the company receiving an ad hoc aid: Parama gamtos išteklių apsaugai gerinti žuvininkystės tvenkiniuose

Legal basis: Lietuvos Respublikos žemės ūkio ministro 2009 m. rugpjūčio 10 d. įsakymas Nr. 3D-584 „Paramos gamtos išteklių apsaugai gerinti žuvininkystės tvenkiniuose taisyklės“

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or amount of ad hoc aid granted: LTL 2,75 million

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of entry into force:

Duration of the scheme or the individual aid award (not later than 30 June 2014) indicate:

Objective of aid: to promote the protection of natural resources and genetic diversity and an improvement in quality, and the management of the landscapes and traditional characteristics of aquaculture zones

Indicate which of Articles 8-24 is used: Article 12

Activity concerned: compensation for the fall in fish production in fishponds resulting from the application of measures to protect the aquatic environment in fishponds

Name and address of the granting authority:

Web address where the full text of the scheme or the criteria and conditions under which ad-hoc aid is granted outside an aid scheme can be found: http://www.zum.lt/lt/teisine-informacija/isakymai/4948/

Motivation: Under the programme ‘measures for the protection of the aquatic environment’, forming part of the ‘aquaculture’ activity of the measure ‘aquaculture, inland fishing, processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products’ under priority axis two of the Lithuanian Fisheries Sector Action Programme for 2007-2013 approved by Commission Decision No C/2007/6703 of 17 December 2007, aid under the water birds protection scheme is granted to aquaculture holdings to preserve features of habitats important to water birds, to create areas of tranquillity and for other nature-conservation measures that go beyond the mere application of normal good aquaculture practice. Aid is granted according to indicators such as a reduction in the income of aquaculture holdings owing to large numbers of wild birds on holdings, the length of stay of such birds on holdings and the amount of fishery products and forage consumed by them. Plans have been made to allocate funds for priority axis two measures and/or areas of activity for the period 2007-2013, and no provision has been made for the possibility of allocating funding for another programme in the ‘measures for the protection of the aquatic environment’ area, which is why a State aid scheme was set up.

Under the State aid scheme ‘aid to improve the protection of natural resources in fishponds’, aid is granted to legal and physical persons rearing and breeding fish in order to provide a haven for protected rare and endangered species of water and wetland birds, creating the conditions for their safe passage. Aid is granted according to indicators such as reduction in the actual cubic capacity of water in fishponds compared with planned cubic capacity, and volume of fish production in ponds (reduction in volume).

Aid No: XF 11/10

Member State: Italy

Region/Authority granting the aid: Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia

Direzione centrale risorse agricole, naturali e forestali

Servizio pesca e acquacoltura

Title of aid scheme/name of company receiving individual aid: Regolamento recante criteri e modalità per la concessione di contributi alle associazioni del settore pesca professionale e dell’acquacoltura operanti in Regione, in attuazione dell’articolo 5, comma 1, della legge regionale 28 dicembre 2007, n. 30 (Legge strumentale alla manovra di bilancio 2008)

Legal basis: Decreto del Presidente della Regione 16 aprile 2010, n. 074/Pres.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or amount of individual aid granted: EUR 200 000,00

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 %

Date of entry into force:

Duration of the scheme or individual aid award (not later than 30 June 2014); indicate:

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to support work programmes of mutual interest implemented by associations with national profile operating in the commercial fishing and aquaculture sector in the Region.

Indicate which of Articles 8 to 24 is used: Article 17 ‘Aid for collective actions’

Activity concerned: Fisheries and aquaculture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Web address where the full text of the scheme or the criteria and conditions under which individual aid is granted outside of an aid scheme can be found: http://arpebur.regione.fvg.it/newbur/visionaBUR?bnum=2010/04/28/17

Motivation: The aid scheme has been established to implement Regional Law No 30 of 28 December 2007 (Legge Regionale 28 dicembre 2007, n. 30). The types of aid provided for by the regional regulation are accompanying measures to the structural assistance measures for which funding has been made available under the CFP.