11.12.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 316/9

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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

(2008/C 316/04)

Aid No: XA 322/08

Member State: Slovenia

Region: Območje občine Cirkulane

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Finančna spodbude za ohranjanje in razvoj kmetijstva v občini Cirkulane

Legal basis: Pravilnik o dodeljevanju državnih pomoči, pomoči de minimis in izvajanju drugih ukrepov za ohranjanje in razvoj kmetijstva ter podeželja v občini Cirkulane

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

2008: EUR 21 600

2009: EUR 10 800

2010: EUR 10 800

2011: EUR 10 800

2012: EUR 10 800

2013: EUR 10 800

Maximum aid intensity:

1.   Investment in agricultural holdings:

—	up to 50 % of eligible costs in less-favoured areas,

—	up to 40 % of eligible costs in other areas,

—	the costs of interest on loans for investment on agricultural holdings.

2.   Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings:

—	up to 100 % of actual costs for investment in non-productive structures,

—	up to 60 % of actual costs, or 75 % in less-favoured areas, for investment in productive assets on farms, provided that the investment does not entail any additional increase in the production capacity of the farm,

—	up to 100 % of aid to cover the extra costs incurred by using traditional materials necessary to conserve the heritage features of buildings.

3.   Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums:

—	the amount of municipal co-financing is the difference between the amount of co-financing of insurance premiums from the national budget and the subsidy limit (up to 50 %) applying to the eligible costs of insurance premiums for crops, fruit and cases of disease among animals.

4.   Aid for land reparcelling:

—	up to 100 % of eligible legal and administrative costs.

5.   Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products:

—	up to 100 % of eligible costs; the aid is to be provided in the form of subsidised services and must not involve direct payments of money to producers.

6.   Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector:

—	up to 100 % of eligible costs,

—	the aid is granted in the form of subsidised services and must not involve direct payments of money to producers

Date of implementation: 1.10.2008 (the aid will not be granted until a summary has been published on the European Commission's website)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: Support for SMEs

Reference to Articles of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and eligible costs: Chapter II of the Pravilnik o dodeljevanju državnih pomoči, pomoči de minimis in izvajanju drugih ukrepov za ohranjanje in razvoj kmetijstva ter podeželja v občini Cirkulane (Rules on granting State aid and de minimis aid and implementing other measures for preserving and developing agriculture and rural areas in the municipality of Cirkulane) includes measures constituting State aid in accordance with the following Articles of Commission 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 of agricultural products and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 (OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 3):

Article 4: Investment in agricultural holdings,

Article 5: Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings,

Article 12: Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums,

Article 13: Aid for land reparcelling,

Article 14: Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products,

Article 15: Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Občina Cirkulane

Cirkulane 40A

SLO-2282 Cirkulane

Website: http://www.lexlocalis.info/KatalogInformacij/VsebinaDokumenta.aspx?SectionID=15a2e816-6641-4fc7-ab2d-37b0a3a02b66

Other information: The measure for the payment of insurance premiums to insure crops and fruit includes the following adverse climatic events which can be assimilated to natural disasters: spring frost, hail, lightning, fire caused by lightning, storms and floods.

The municipality's Rules meet the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 concerning the measures to be adopted by the municipality and the general provisions applicable (procedure prior to the aid grant, cumulation, transparency and monitoring of aid)

Janez JURGEC

Aid No: XA 323/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas a las inversiones para el fomento del cultivo y explotación en común en la Comunitat Valenciana

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden de la Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras de un régimen de ayudas a las inversiones para el fomento del cultivo y explotación en común en la Comunitat Valenciana

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Total
EUR 100 000	EUR 1 000 000	EUR 1 500 000	EUR 1 500 000	EUR 1 500 000	EUR 1 500 000	EUR 7 100 000

As provided for in the annual budgets of the Government of the Autonomous Community of Valencia

Maximum aid intensity: The eligible investments will not exceed EUR 90 000 per agricultural work unit, defined by the equivalent area of each of the agricultural developments targeted by the aid.

The maximum aid that may be granted to a farm for common cultivation or farming practices must not exceed EUR 400 000 over a period of three financial years, or EUR 500 000 if the farm is located in one of the less-favoured areas referred to in Article 36(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.

The maximum intensity of the public aid on the eligible investment of each project will be 40 per cent in normal areas and 50 per cent in the above-mentioned less-favoured areas

Date of implementation: As from the 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: Aid may be granted under these arrangements until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The intention is to promote investment in small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises on the basis of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, so as to mitigate the effects that small-scale farming in the Autonomous Community of Valencia has on profitability by reducing production costs.

Moreover, the indirect aim of community farming, with appropriate, uniform and relevant technical criteria, is to obtain better quality and more environmentally friendly production, given the potential for rationalising crop inputs, particularly fertilisers and pesticides.

To this end, an aid system is being set up that essentially subsidises the purchase of machinery and equipment for carrying out cultivation practices on a joint basis, restructuring planting with a view to mechanisation, introducing community irrigation systems leading to improvements in efficiency involving a water saving of up to at least 25 per cent, as well as achieving savings in land costs and general costs related to the investment in question.

The following will not be eligible: the purchase of production rights, annual plants and their planting, simple replacement investment as defined in Article 2(17) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, investment in firms in difficulties or undertakings that have breached bans or restrictions imposed by the common organisations of the market

Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural production sectors in the Autonomous Community of Valencia

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

C/ Amadeo de Saboya, no 2

E-46010 Valencia

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/Inversiones%20cultivo%20y%20explotacion%20en%20comun.pdf

Valencia, 24 June 2008.

Laura PEÑARROYA FABREGAT

La Directora General de Producción Agraria

Aid No: XA 325/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Federación Empresarial de Agroalimentación de la Comunidad Valenciana (FEDACOVA)

Legal basis: Ayuda individual nominativa: Presupuestos de la Generalitat 2008, programa 714.60, Línea T2086000-«Dieta mediterránea: Ayuda a la organización de jornadas»

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 200 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: As from the 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: November 2008

Objective of aid: Organisation of technical conferences on food quality, food safety and food products of the Autonomous Community of Valencia; publication of the papers delivered at these conferences. Monographs on new certification systems. Good practice guides; technical studies and reports: characterisation of the agri-food sector. Observatory for sectoral competitivity. Technical, informative and educational reports, papers and materials; training. Organisation of courses on the HACCP own-checks system for packaging honey. Design and application of prerequisites for hygiene, traceability and HACCP in agri-food companies. Certification of food safety systems; website. Visits to companies in the sector. Design and planning of a study into the agri-food sector in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. Participation in exhibitions, trade missions and the creation of an export information point. Legislative publications

Activities laid down in Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Agri-food SMEs in the Autonomous Community of Valencia

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

C/ Amadeo de Saboya, no 2

E-46010 Valencia

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/Dieta%20Mediterranea%20FEDACOVA.pdf

Other information: —

Marta VALSANGIACOMO GIL

La Directora General de Comercialización

Aid No: XA 326/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunidad Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Asociación de Usuarios de Casetas de Castellón

Legal basis: Resolución de la Consellera de Agricultura Pesca y Alimentación, que concede la subvención basada en dos líneas nominativas descritas en la ley no 15/2007 de presupuestos de la Generalitat

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 230 000 during 2008

Maximum aid intensity: 40, 50 or 100 %, depending on the type of measure

Date of implementation: As from the publication of the identification number of the request for exemption on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of individual aid award: Year 2008

Objective of aid: Preparation, disinfection, cleaning and maintaining in the health and hygiene conditions required by animal health legislation of collective carcass storage facilities, which receive the carcasses of fallen stock from holdings and keep them in proper conditions for use. In accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, this is transparent individual aid outside any scheme and compatible with the common market, since the activities to be funded conform with those laid down in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, investment in agricultural holdings, and Article 16(1)(d) and (f) of the same Regulation, aid of 100 % for the costs of removal of fallen stock

Sector(s) concerned: Owners of livestock holdings in the province of Castellón

Name and address of the granting authority: Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

Other information: —

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/Asociacion%20de%20usuarios%20de%20casetas%20de%20Castellon.pdf

Valencia, 14 August 2008.

Laura PEÑARROYA FABREGAT

La Directora General de Producción Agraria

Aid No: XA 327/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunidad Valenciana

Title of aid scheme: Orden de la Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, por la que se establecen ayudas compensatorias por los costes de prevención y erradicación de la salmonelosis en la avicultura

Legal basis: This aid forms part of the following health plans or programmes to monitor, control and eradicate diseases:

Commission Decision of 30 November 2007 (Articles 5 and 6) approving the programmes for the control of certain zoonotic salmonella in breeding flocks of Gallus gallus and in laying flocks of Gallus gallus submitted by Spain for the period from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008,

El Plan Nacional de medidas para la vigilancia de determinados serotipos de Salmonella en pollos de carne, broilers, de la especie Gallus gallus establecido por la Subdirección General de Sanidad Animal del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino.

Plan anual zoosanitario de 2008, aprobado por resolución de 23 de enero de 2008 de la Directora General de Producción Agraria

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 800 000 during 2008

Maximum aid intensity: 80 % of the costs incurred, unless it becomes possible to exceed the maximum quantity of EUR 1 per laying or breeding hen and EUR 0,10 per fattening hen targeted by the aid

Date of implementation: As from the publication of the identification number of the request for exemption on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of scheme: Year 2008

Objective of aid:

—	health checks,

—	disease detection tests,

—	purchase and administration of vaccines,

—	slaughter and destruction of affected animals,

—	cleaning and disinfection of, and pest and rodent control for, facilities and equipment, through the use of approved products and appropriate methods until it is guaranteed that salmonella is not present as proven by tests.

The eligible costs covered by the aid are in line with those laid down in Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Poultry sector of the Autonomous Community of Valencia

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

Amadeo de Saboya, no 2

E-46010 Valencia

Other information: —

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/Orden%20Salmonelosis%20en%20avicultura%202008.pdf

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