Compensatory compensation: At 255 million euros, the total cost – The OK ones
To 255,076,923 euros is the total public expenditure of intervention P.3-71 “Aids in areas characterized by natural or other special disadvantages”, of the SS CAP, for the year 2024, according to an amending decision posted in the transparency.
At the same time, it is planned to include the admissible requests for aid in Intervention P.3-71, which concern:
- Action 1: “Compensatory aid in mountainous areas”
- Action 2: “Compensatory aid in areas with natural limitations other than mountainous”
- Action 3: “Compensatory aid in areas with special disadvantages”
How public spending is analyzed
It should be noted that the total public expenditure of 255,076,923 euros is analyzed as follows:
- for Action 1, public expenditure of 185,076,923 euros
- for Action 2, public expenditure of 60,000,000 euros
- for Action 3, public expenditure of 10,000,000 euros
It should be noted that, according to the amendment, an amount can be over-committed, up to 110% of the total public expenditure specified in the Call, for the inclusion of acceptable requests for aid.
Which areas are covered by equalizing compensation
It is recalled that Action 1: “Compensatory aid in mountainous areas”, applies to all areas classified as mountainous
Action 2: “Compensatory aid in areas with natural limitations, other than mountainous areas”, in areas facing natural limitations [disadvantages], other than mountainous areas and
Action 3: “Compensatory aid for areas with special disadvantages”, in areas affected by area-specific restrictions [disadvantages], concerns:
- border areas
- island areas
- areas facing a serious risk of agricultural land abandonment, which will increase further, as the lignite activity will be phased out and are posted on the EYD SS KAP website
Beneficiaries and obligations
Beneficiaries of the measure can be considered natural and legal persons, who are active farmers, carry out agricultural activity and are adults (in the case of natural persons beneficiaries) and have not leave active employment.
Beneficiaries undertake the obligation:
a) maintain the extent to which they are included in the intervention throughout the aid year
b) depending on the elements of plant and animal capital included in their operation, to comply with the obligations in the context of “enhanced air quality”
c) to accept and facilitate all the prescribed controls by the competent National and Community Bodies