{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1857/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1857/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2006/1857",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1857",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001",
  "text": "Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 is amended as follows:\n1.. In Article 1(2), point (a) is replaced by the following:\n(a) ‘to fishery and acquaculture products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 and to activities linked to the primary production (farming) of agricultural products; to the manufacture and marketing of products intended to imitate or substitute for milk and milk products;’;\n2.. Article 2 is amended as follows:\nthe following points (k) to (n) are added:\n(k) ‘“agricultural product” means:\n(i) the products listed in Annex I of the Treaty, except fishery and acquaculture products covered by Regulation (EC) No 104/2000;\n(ii) products falling under CN codes 4502, 4503 and 4505 (cork products);\n(iii) products intended to imitate or substitute milk and milk products, as referred to in Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1898/87;\n(l) “products intended to imitate or substitute milk and milk products” means products which could be confused with milk and/or milk products but whose composition differs from such products in that they contain fat and/or protein of non-milk origin with or without protein derived from milk (“products other than milk products” as referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1898/87);\n(m) “processing of agricultural products” means any operation on an agricultural product resulting in a product which is also an agricultural product, except on farm activities necessary for preparing an animal or plant product for the first sale;\n(n) “marketing of agricultural products” means holding or display with a view to sale, offering for sale, delivery or any other manner of placing on the market, except the first sale by a primary producer to resellers or processors and any activity preparing a product for such first sale; a sale by a primary producer to final consumers shall be considered as marketing if it takes place in separate premises reserved for that purpose.’;\n3.. In Article 4, the following paragraph 7 is added:\n‘7. Where the investment concerns the processing and marketing of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty, the gross aid intensity may not exceed:\n(a) 75 % of eligible investments in the outermost regions;\n(b) 65 % of eligible investments in the smaller Aegean Islands within the meaning of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2019/93;\n(c) 50 % of eligible investments in regions eligible under Article 87(3)(a) EC;\n(d) 40 % of eligible investments in all other regions.’\n4.. In Annex II, the following is added after ‘Other manufacturing’, at the same level as ‘All manufacturing’:\n‘ Processing and marketing of agricultural products ’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.’;"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 182, 3.7.1987, p. 36.’;"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 184, 27.7.1993, p. 1.’"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "As defined in Article 2(k) of this Regulation.’"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1857/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:53:15.884824+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}