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Document 92001E000409

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0409/01 by Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Approval of state aid to combat classical swine fever.

Úř. věst. C 235E, 21.8.2001, pp. 200–201 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

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Date of document:
08/02/2001; Den přenosu
Date of dispatch:
08/02/2001
Date of reply:
08/03/2001; Písemná odpověď
Author:
Evropský parlament, Not available
Form:
Písemný dotaz
Addressee:
Evropská komise
Parliamentary term:
páté volební období
Political group:
Poslanecký klub Evropské lidové strany

92001E0409

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0409/01 by Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Approval of state aid to combat classical swine fever.

Official Journal 235 E , 21/08/2001 P. 0200 - 0201


WRITTEN QUESTION P-0409/01

by Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(8 February 2001)

Subject: Approval of state aid to combat classical swine fever

The European Commission is aware of the recent outbreaks of classical swine fever in the Eastern Region of the United Kingdom. Rules governing the legality of state aid designed to compensate producers with an outbreak on the farm and those in the exclusion zone seem to be fairly clear.

In the United Kingdom we also have farmers who rear pigs by contract for primary producers/owners. These contract rearers have been denied any form of compensation from the UK Government because they have not had to forfeit their own property. However, the pigs under their care have been slaughtered and their source of income has completely dried up rendering them as economically hard-hit as primary producers by this epidemic.

If the UK Government were to submit a plan for some degree of financial assistance to be made available to contract pig rearers, would this financial assistance be legal under EU state aid rules? If so, to what degree?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(8 March 2001)

Point 11.4 of the Community Guidelines for State aids in the agriculture sector(1) concerning aids designed to compensate farmers for the losses incurred in the case of animal diseases does not on principle exclude the type of beneficiaries described by the Honourable Member. The actual possibility to authorise State aids in their favour as well as the scope and extent of such aids could however only be determined after examining the specific nature of the contractual relation existing between the owner of the pigs and the contract rearers.

(1) OJ C 232, 12.8.2000.

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