Aid for alpine farming - alpine pasture recovery - year 2023

With the term "alpine pasture" o "malga" is identified as a system comprising the grazing area and the facilities for housing the livestock and the staff.

These areas are all located at high altitudes from a minimum of 1,000 metres to a maximum of 2,500 metres above sea level and are spread over the entire surface area of Trentino, in the various valleys, and are mainly publicly owned.

The Trentino breeding system has always been characterised by being carried out for between 80 and 110 days a year (from the beginning of June to mid-September).

Below are some clarifications regarding this call for proposals:

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The huts benefiting from the provincial contribution and their pastures must be used in accordance with the technical-economic specifications and the guidelines approved by the Provincial Council Resolution No 731 of 6 May 2015.

Verification of the de minimis aid received by the beneficiary will be carried out ex officio through the national database on State aid.

The granting of the contribution implies theobligation for the beneficiary not to alienate, not to transfer or in any case not to divert from their use the assets for which the contribution has been granted for at least 10 years according to art. 6 of L.P. 4/03. The deadline runs from the date of the application for final payment of the grant.

In the event of non-compliance with the deadline referred to in the preceding paragraph, the beneficiaries shall be required, except in the event of force majeure, to repay the grant awarded in proportion to the residual duration of the current period.

The residual duration is calculated from the date of ascertainment of the circumstances giving rise to the revocation of the grant until the end of the respective period. The corresponding amount is to be repaid plus interest at the statutory rate from the date of payment.

The grantee shall in any case allow the staff in charge of monitoring the application of the regulations in force free access to the facilities and the documentation relating to the subject matter of the grant awarded.

Checks on the compliance with the obligations imposed on applicants by Article 6 of Provincial Law no. 4/2003 shall be carried out on a sample equal to 5% of the interventions subject to constraints, in accordance with the relevant provincial regulations in force. The control on the substitutive declarations of certification and affidavit will be carried out on a sample of at least 5% of the files, according to the provisions of the provincial regulations in force on the matter.

Undertakings in receipt of an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring the aid unlawful and incompatible with the internal marketare not eligible for aid.

Firms in difficulty within the meaning of Article 1(5) of Regulation (EU) No 2472/2022 are not eligible for aid.

In addition, the following documentation must be attached to the application

1. complete project approved with a valid permit to carry out the works (the details of the deed must be indicated in the application), including map extract of the parcels, chorography and photographic documentation;

2. estimated metric calculation of the works signed at the bottom of the page by the qualified technician, drawn up according to the items in the price list for public works issued by the Autonomous Province of Trento or, for the items not present, according to the price lists issued by the C.C.I.A.A;

3. in the case of public entities, special tender specifications or similar document complete with list of unit prices

4. technical report describing the initiatives to be carried out, indicating the parcels involved in the initiative, signed at the bottom of the page by a qualified technician

5. declaration by the designer on the need to draw up the safety plan pursuant to Legislative Decree 81/08 and subsequent amendments and integrations

6. for entities that manage and administer public and collective property, provision of the competent body approving the initiative and undertaking to grant the ten-year concession to farmers.

Following the approval of Resolution no. 1587 of 4 October 2024 , applications following position no. 7 on the priority list will be financed.

A request for confirmation of interest in financing the application will be submitted to the Agricultural Service, in accordance with the procedures that will be communicated to the applicants themselves, after which the priority ranking list updated on the basis of the applicants' confirmations of interest will be drawn up.

In addition, any savings resulting from the processing of the applications included in the priority list in the positions useful for financial coverage may be used in the continuation of the financing of subsequent applications up to position no. 33, in order of priority, subject to confirmation of interest in the financing of the application, in accordance with the procedures laid down.

To this end, no further ranking list will be approved, but this will be acknowledged in the grant decision.