Farmers: until the end of February to submit files for state aid

Until February 29, 2024, farmers and breeders who were affected by the extreme flooding phenomena in Thessaly to submit the relevant files to the authorities at Region of Thessaly, so that all procedures can be routed for the payment of both the advance and the final grant within the state help.

It is recalled that, according to the relevant recommendation of the government’s state aid committee, the grant amounts to 70% of the estimated damage, as it results from the work of the Region’s state aid committees, after control, autopsy and assessment of damages.

The grant concerns damages to elements assets of businesses and agricultural farms – in particular damage to:

  • equipment
  • raw materials
  • stored products
  • on damaged vehicles
  • in land capital

Changes

A series of changes and modifications in the operation part of the committees state aid of the Region of Thessaly that deal with agricultural holdings, so that the The rate of implementation of the project to respond to its large volume, the need to shorten the times and the result that has been achieved for businesses has been proposed to the Region of Thessaly by the ministry.

In this context, as mentioned in the announcement, last week, the services and the committees of state aid of the Region of Thessaly adapted to the said proposals (new sub-coordinators, two-member levels, restructuring of the executives, transfer of files, increase of process digitalization, etc.) resolve the arrhythmias that were detected in the previous period and adopt a more flexible and efficient shape for the project of recording and assessment of damages.

Just 4,400 files submitted

It is worth noting that, according to the data of the Region of Thessaly and until last week, 4,400 files have been submitted by the beneficiary farmers and breeders to the authorities of the Region of Thessaly out of a total of 31,420 damage declarations that were submitted through ELGA in the Region of Thessaly. This is a number of submitted files that correspond to only 14% of the related damage declarations in Thessaly, while about 20% of the submitted files were filed during the last week.

Also, until now, 33.9 million euros have already been granted to 16,400 agricultural holdings and livestock units, which requested first aid through the platform arogi.gov.gr and were confirmed by the data of the damage declaration to ELGA. The platform had remained open until January 12, 2024, when 1,300 farmer applications have been submitted, which are in the crossing process, so that in the next days they proceed the related payments of first aid.