According to the Strategic Program – PAC – 2023-2027, the financing measure for Investments for the processing and marketing of agricultural products in order to obtain food products and processed products, other than those provided for in Annex 1 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, was established.
Eligible beneficiaries:
Economic operators that are not in the category of firms in difficulty: SMEs, according to Law no. 346/2004 as amended and supplemented, large enterprises, including farmers who fall under the status of SME/large enterprise. Also, associative forms are eligible for financing.
An applicant can submit 1 single project financed through the EAFRD related to the DR-22 intervention and can obtain non-reimbursable financing from the EAFRD and from the state budget for a maximum of 2 projects financed through the EAFRD for different interventions within the PS PAC 2023 – 2027.
The rate of non-reimbursable public support will be a maximum of 65% of the total eligible expenses and will not exceed:
– maximum 3 million euros/project for modernization investment projects;
– a maximum of 10 million euros/project for start-up investment projects that propose at least processing investments for the fruit-vegetable sectors, the milling industry, oil and combined feed;
– maximum 7 million euros/project for other start-up investments.
Eligible expenses for financing:
1. Establishing, expanding and/or modernizing the infrastructure for conditioning, storing and/or processing agricultural and fruit products;
• Construction and equipping of conditioning, storage and/or processing units;
• Expenses generated by investments regarding internal infrastructure and utilities, as well as connections and connections necessary for the projects;
• Expenditures regarding video surveillance systems for the activity proposed by the project;
• Expenses for ensuring compliance with hygiene conditions and the technological flow, such as spaces for production personnel: laboratories, filter-type changing rooms for workers, space for serving meals, etc.;
2. Establishment/development of the sales/marketing component, as a secondary component of the project;
– The purchase of new machines, installations, equipment and compact, specialized means of transport;
– Expenses related to the marketing of the obtained products (e.g. equipment for labeling, product packaging);
– Expenses related to the marketing of the obtained products (e.g. equipment for labeling, product packaging);
– Expenses related to the marketing of the products: own stores (company/associative stores) in the same location/location different from the location of the processing unit, online store, caravans/caravans/food vending machines.
- Investments in the circular economy, as a secondary component part of the investment project (intended exclusively for own consumption) related to the production and use of energy from the valorization of biomass (including from food waste resulting from the processing of livestock, vegetable and fruit products); The biomass used will come exclusively from the activity of the applicant; the processing of food waste intended for recovery and by-products into biocomponents, such as bioproducts intended for animal consumption, etc.;
- the purchase of equipment for the reuse of packaging in its own technological process.
Investments related to the use of digital solutions in conditioning, processing, marketing and management, as a secondary component of the project, necessary for carrying out the activity targeted by the project.
– Expenditure generated by investments in digital solutions for conditioning, storage, processing, marketing and management e.g. Internet of Things systems, including for robotic process automation solutions* or for blockchain or IT security solutions;
– connecting digital scales with management systems, receiving raw materials, monitoring consumption according to recipes, connecting and automating equipment / installations / sensors with management systems.
Improvement of internal quality control as a secondary part of the project;
Marketing of the obtained products, etc., for example
setting up a website – to promote and sell your own products;
labeling (creating the concept)
trademark/brand creation
The expenses related to the intangible investments for the marketing of the obtained products will have an eligible value of max. 5%, but not more than 100,000 euros of the eligible value of the project.
DURATION OF EXECUTION AND MONITORING
The execution period of the Financing Agreement is a maximum of 3 years (36 months) for projects that provide for construction-installation investments and 2 years (24 months) for those that provide for simple purchases (equipment, software, etc.)
The tangible and intangible assets resulting from the implementation of the projects financed according to the interventions of PS PAC 2023-2027, must be included in the category of the beneficiary’s own assets and be used for the activity that benefited from non-refundable financing for at least 5 years from the date of the last payment – Duration of monitoring the investment.
ADVANCE
The beneficiary can opt for an advance of up to a maximum of 50% of the non-refundable eligible value, on the date of submitting the financing Application or after signing the financing contract, during the implementation of the project. In order to benefit from the advance, the beneficiary is obliged to submit a financial guarantee, in percentage of 100% of the amount of the advance, presented in the form of a letter of bank guarantee, issued by a banking financial institution which is submitted together with the Payment Application File Advance. The guarantee is released after the settlement of the last reimbursement request.