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Adding Value to Agricultural and Forestry Products
Eligible primary production sectors:
Eligible activities:
The following sectors related to processing and/or marketing of products, covered by Annex I to the Treaty, are eligible for support (agricultural products):
- Milk and dairy products
- Meat and meat products;
- Fruits and vegetables including mushrooms;
- Bee honey;
- Cereal, miller’s and starch products;
- Vegetable and animal oils and fats;
- Industrial and medicinal plants including rose oil and herbs;
- Prefabricated food for livestock (fodders);
- Grape must, wine and vinegar;
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Production of energy through processing of plant and animal products from primary and secondary biomass, except biomass from fishery products.
The processing and/or marketing of forest products is also eligible for support prior to industrial processing and excluding furniture production.
Eligible activities:
The measure will support projects that lead to improvement of the overall performance of the beneficiary enterprise through:
- Introduction of new and/or modernization of the existing facilities and improvement of their use, and/or;
- Introduction of new products, processes and technologies, and/or
- Reduction of production costs, and/or
- Reaching compliance with EU standards, and/or
- Improving cooperation with primary agricultural producers, and/or
- Environmental protection (including decreasing pollutant emissions and waste),and/or
- Increasing production and utilization of energy from renewable energy sources, and/or
- Improving occupational health and safety, and hygiene conditions, and/or
- Improving food quality, safety and traceability, and/or
- Improving possibilities for marketing and production of organic foods through processing of primary agricultural organic products, and/or
- Improving animal protection and welfare.
The assessment of the contribution of a project to the improvement of the overall performance of enterprises will be described and assessed on the basis of the content of the business plan which is required for each investment project supported under the Measure. The business plan must demonstrate a significant increase in overall performance of the enterprises.
Types of eligible investments (tangible-intangible):
Under the measure support shall be granted to enterprises (including producer markets) for investments as follows:
Tangible investments:
Geographical scope of the measure - the whole country.
Type of support:
Grant aid to eligible investments.
Aid Intensity:
The maximum total eligible investment expenditure for the whole period of the implementation of the RDP is EUR 4 000 000 per beneficiary under this measure.
Overall budget for the period 2007-2013: EUR 240 973 396
Types of eligible investments (tangible-intangible):
Under the measure support shall be granted to enterprises (including producer markets) for investments as follows:
Tangible investments:
- Construction, acquisition and modernization of buildings and other immovable assets, needed for the production, processing and marketing activities.
- Purchase and installation of new machines and equipment for improvement of the production, processing and marketing,
- Purchase of specialised transport vehicles
- Construction and/or modernization of laboratories needed for the enterprise;
- Tangible investments by micro-enterprises for compliance with newly introduced Community standards;
- Tangible investments for compliance of enterprises processing milk and milk products and meat and meat products with Community standards which have been granted transitional period;
- Purchase of land needed for the production
- Achieving compliance with internationally recognized standards such as:
- Introduction of management systems in the enterprises (for example - ISO 9000:2005; ISO 9001:2000; ISO 14001:2004 (EMAS); ISO 900; ISO/TR 10013:2001; ISO 19011:2002; ISO 27001; including IT-based systems, etc.);
- Preparation for certification under the НАССР (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) ;
- Implementing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) in enterprises.
- Purchase of know-how, acquisition of patents and licenses for preparing and implementing a project, directly related to the measure.
- Purchase of software;
- General costs related to the investment project such as architects’ and consultants’ fees, and feasibility studies for preparing and implementing a project (subject to the limits on general costs specified in Section 5.1.2).
- Natural persons or legal entities registered under the Commercial Law or Law on Co-operations that are micro, small and medium sized enterprises within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, including producer markets .
- Enterprises, which are not micro, small and medium but whose number of staff is less than 750 employees or annual turnover is less than EUR 200 million.Geographical scope of the measure - the whole country.
Type of support:
Grant aid to eligible investments.
Aid Intensity:
- 50% of the total eligible investment expenditure for micro, small and medium enterprises as defined in Commission Recommendation ЕС 2003/361/.
- 25% of the total eligible investment expenditure for enterprises, which are not micro, small and medium but that have less than 750 employees or their annual turnover is less than EUR 200 million.
The maximum total eligible investment expenditure for the whole period of the implementation of the RDP is EUR 4 000 000 per beneficiary under this measure.
Overall budget for the period 2007-2013: EUR 240 973 396