Eligibility criteria, business plan
The right to apply for support has a) natural persons and b) legal entities in which the head of the farm is a new farmer who, at the date of application for support, meets the following conditions:
1) He is an adult and has not exceeded 41 years of age.
2) It is established for the first time on the holding during the eighteen months preceding the date of submission of the application for support.
3) Submits EAE (Single Aid application) for the year 2021.
4) It is registered in the Register of Farmers and Agricultural Holdings (MAAE) as a professional farmer newcomer to the agricultural sector, for natural persons, or as a holder of agricultural holding, for legal entities.
5) Has not been engaged in agricultural professional activity for at least the last 5 years before the date of first establishment.
6) He has no non-agricultural employment, permanent dependent or non-dependent or, if he has, he undertakes to terminate it after the announcement of the results of the examination of his application (if deemed eligible) and before his inclusion in the measure.
7) He has not previously been a beneficiary of measures for young farmers of the RDP 2007 – 2013 or the ESDP-AU 2000 – 2006.
8) She does not have a spouse who is either a professional farmer / farmer, certified by the IAEA, or is eligible to be designated as a professional farmer / farmer by the IAEA, with the exception of the spouses of professional fisheries farmers.
9) He / she is not a student who has not completed the number of years of study provided for each school.
10) Legal entities are mainly owned by a young farmer (the young farmer owns at least 51% of the capital of the legal entity). The young farmer must meet all the above conditions.
11) The farm must be located in the wider area of the place of permanent residence of the farm manager, have a minimum production capacity (expressed as standard yield) and be included in the EAE (Single Aid application) 2021.
12) Applicants submit a standard business plan for the development of their farm. The duration of the implementation of the business plan can not be less than three years and longer than four. The start of the implementation of the business plan must begin no later than nine months after the decision to join. After the completion of the business plan the young farmer does not undertake further obligations.