Contribution to collective plant protection product washing facilities

The collective washing facility provides a covered area with impermeable paving, intended exclusively for the external washing of vehicles and equipment used for the application of plant protection products. Washing water is treated on site and reused for subsequent washing, avoiding any direct discharge into the environment, in order to prevent pollution of water resources and soil. Residual waste water and filter material will have to be disposed of in accordance with current environmental legislation.

The aid intensity is 60% for all types of beneficiaries.

The minimum amount of eligible expenditure per aid application is EUR 50,000.00 excluding VAT, both at the grant and final payment stages.

The maximum eligible expenditure per aid application is EUR 900,000.00 excluding VAT.

The maximum grant that may be awarded, per enterprise and per investment project, pursuant to Article 4(b) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2472, is EUR 600,000.00.

Priority criteria and scores

• the selection criteria are intended to ensure equal treatment of applicants, better use of financial resources and better matching of support to the purposes of the interventions.
• The information supporting the priority criteria and proving the score required is to be found in the aid application and in the specific declarations relating to the initiative. The scoring requirements must be met by the applicant at the time the application for support is submitted.
• The single ranking list for access to aid applications submitted will be drawn up on the basis of the scores awarded, specified in the table in point 7.1 of the notice

In the event of a tied score, priority will be given to the application containing at least one washing plant located in a water basin with a PEST impact, and then in chronological order of application submission.

OBLIGATIONS FOR APPLICANTS

• The granting of the contribution entails the obligation for the beneficiary to respect the use of the real estate and fixed assets for at least 10 years and of the movable assets for at least 3 years, starting from the date of the request for final verification, as established by Article 6 of Provincial Law 4/2003.
• In the event of a change of use or alienation of the asset before the expiry of the terms referred to in the preceding paragraph, the beneficiaries shall be required, except for force majeure, to repay the granted contribution in proportion to the residual duration of the mandatory period of use.
• The residual duration is calculated from the date of ascertainment of the circumstances giving rise to the revocation of the incentive until the end of the mandatory period of use. The portion of the incentive to be recovered shall be increased by simple interest calculated at the legal interest rate from the date on which the grant payment order was issued until the date of its repayment.
• The beneficiary of the contributions shall in any case allow the personnel in charge of monitoring the application of the applicable regulations free access to the facilities and to the documentation pertaining to the subject matter of the contribution granted.

VAT

VAT is recognised as eligible expenditure if it is definitively non-recoverable. To this end, the beneficiaries must declare when submitting the grant application, with a declaration in lieu of affidavit, that the VAT indicated on the works and on the sums available and whose eligibility for financing is requested cannot be deducted by them. The VAT rate allowed is that in force at the time the grant is awarded.

Documentary evidence and CUP

1. The amount of expenditure must be justified by invoices (in PDF format) made out in the name of the beneficiary and receipted or by documents of equivalent probative value to invoices.
2. The expenses must be paid by the beneficiary by means of a bank or postal transfer or by means of an RIBA, to an account in the name of the beneficiary (current account dedicated, even if not exclusively, to the investment operation). Limited to the purchase of structures/land, payment by registered bank draft is also permitted, with proof of debiting.
3. It is mandatory to quote the Unique Project Code (CUP) on all invoices and in all payments. The code is assigned by the Agricultural Service prior to the decision to grant the contribution. The CUP must always be present in the documents evidencing the expenditure (invoices and payment documents) issued after the CUP has been notified.
4. Contracting authorities that independently download this Code shall instead communicate it to the Agriculture Service.
5. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 7 below, expenditure supported by documents (invoices and/or payments) without a CUP code is not eligible for financing.
6. For documents prior to the communication of the CUP code, the correlation between the expenditure incurred and the financed initiative must be made as follows
   • For invoices not yet paid, the beneficiary of the aid must indicate the CUP in the receipt of payment made by bank or postal transfer or by RIBA. If the payment receipt does not include the CUP or the CUP has been incorrectly affixed, it may be regularised by submitting a declaration in lieu of a notarial deed in accordance with Presidential Decree 445/2000, in which the beneficiary certifies the correlation between the invoice(s) and the subsidised initiative. The declaration must be attached to the copy of the invoice (in the case of electronic invoices, analogical materialisation of the document) and presented for the purposes of the payment of the incentive, together with the remaining documentation required for the reporting of expenses;
   • for paid invoices, the beneficiary must issue a declaration in lieu of affidavit pursuant to Presidential Decree 445/2000, also cumulative, in which it certifies the correlation between the invoice(s) and the subsidised initiative. The declaration must be attached to the copy of the invoice (in the case of electronic invoices, analogical materialisation of the document) and presented for the purposes of the payment of the incentive, together with the remaining documentation required for the reporting of expenses.
7. For documents subsequent to the communication of the CUP code, it is possible to promptly regularise the situation according to one of the following possibilities
   • making an electronic integration to the Revenue Agency's interchange system. The integration document transmitted to the interchange system must contain both the data required for the integration (CUP code) and the invoice details and must be attached to the invoice itself;
   • issuance of a credit note, by the supplier, within the timeframe allowed by the regulations, aimed at cancelling the expense title and the subsequent issuance of a new expense title, with the CUP code
8. In the case of payments made by bank drafts, the eligibility of which is reserved only for the purchase of structures and land (as provided for under point 5.3 paragraph 1 and 2 below), the deed of sale shall report the CUP code and the serial code of each bank draft. For the purposes of the obligation of traceability of the expenditure, the deeds of sale shall be in the form of a public deed or a notarized private deed
9. For all matters not expressly indicated in the preceding paragraphs concerning the CUP code, the provisions of Provincial Council Resolution No 728 of 23/05/2024 shall apply.

Please note that the aid provided for in these criteria cannot be combined with other public aid for the same initiative financed by this notice.

1. SMEs or 'micro, small and medium-sized enterprises' meeting the criteria set out in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2472, as well as entities managing collective property listed in Article 2(1)(d) - (f) and (g) of Provincial Law 4/2003 as specified below
   • letter d) - agricultural cooperatives and cooperatives for the collection, processing and marketing of agricultural products and their consortia, which are listed in the register of cooperatives of the province of Trento referred to in Regional Law No 7 of 29 January 1954 (Supervision of cooperatives), and agrarian associations however denominated, provided they are legally constituted
   • letter f) - land reclamation consortia recognised under the relevant legislation in force;
   • letter g) - first and second level land improvement consortia recognised under the relevant legislation in force
2. Provincial protection consortia established in the wine sector

Procedures and deadlines for submitting the application

For the year 2025 the application must be submitted online by accessing the provincial agricultural information system SRTrento, from Monday 11 August 2025 until Monday 22 September 2025.

In the following years, and until the end of the period of validity of Reg. (EU) 2022/2472, the Provincial Council with subsequent measures, if resources are available in the provincial budget, will establish the deadlines for the submission of applications and any further procedural indications in compliance with the criteria set out in this resolution, which will be communicated to the European Commission as an exemption under Reg.

Access to the restricted area of SRTrento is allowed only to registered users, therefore each user must first be accredited according to the methods indicated in the manual on the home page of the SRTrento website.

Applications submitted must be signed using a valid digital signature. The application must be digitally signed by the person entitled to sign the document, otherwise it will be inadmissible.

For any assistance in accessing and enabling the portal, please contact helpdesk.srtrento@provincia.tn.it.

The following documentation must be attached to the grant application, which must be sent by accessing the SRTrento system:

• in the case of land improvement and reclamation consortia, if the consortium already has them, documentation proving the extraordinary audit of the consortium's balance sheet
• copy of the minutes or extract thereof whereby the competent statutory body approves the initiative in compliance with the statutory provisions
• an illustrative technical report describing the investment for which funding is requested. The report must also set out the framework of the investments contained in the application, in line with the provisions of point 2.2 "Objectives" of the call for proposals. It must also give an account of all the elements necessary to assess the correct attribution of priority scores
• metric-estimative computation showing the cost items of the works in relation to the current provincial price list of the Province. In the case of works and works that differ from or are difficult to compare with those referred to in the price lists published in the Official Bulletin of the Region of Trentino-Alto Adige, the values indicated in the project documents shall be taken, provided that they are justified by the designer on the basis of a price analysis to be attached to the documents accompanying the application for aid
• special tender specifications or similar document, complete with list of unit prices
• project drawings in conformity with those filed for the necessary authorisations, including a map extract of the parcels and photographic documentation
• any geological report or feasibility opinion drawn up by a qualified technician
• certification signed by the designer on the necessity, or otherwise, of drawing up the safety plan pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 81/08 and subsequent amendments and integrations
• suitable title certifying the availability of the parcels occupied by items for the operation of the washing plant, envisaged in the project attached to the application for the entire duration of the constraint

In the case of the purchase of plant, machinery and equipment, or particular categories of works (e.g. electrical system, plumbing system, etc.) the following documentation must also be submitted

• three cost estimates signed by the supplier, dated, valid, on headed notepaper with the supplier's logo indicating the company name, the C.C.I.A.A. registration number, the tax code and/or VAT number or similar identification codes. Estimates must be issued by 3 different, independent and competing suppliers, be detailed, comparable and competitive with respect to market prices. The technical characteristics must also be highlighted in the quotations. For installations, the estimated metric calculation may be submitted as an alternative.
  In the case of acquisitions of highly specialised goods and in the case of investments to complete pre-existing supplies, for which it is not possible to find or use more than one supplier, a detailed cost estimate to which must be attached a technical-economic report by a qualified technician highlighting the impossibility of identifying other competing firms capable of supplying the goods to be financed, regardless of the value of the goods or supplies to be purchased.

Additional documentation to be submitted in case of admission to the ranking list

Within 60 days of receipt of the notice of admission to the ranking list, the applicant must submit:

• for land improvement and reclamation consortia:
  • documentation proving the extraordinary audit of the consortium's balance sheet, as indicated in the eligibility requirements
  • documentation attesting to the institutional competence of the Land Improvement Consortium and the Land Reclamation Consortium to carry out and manage the activity that is the subject of the investment
• for Cooperatives and their consortia, agricultural associations
  • the economic assessment and financial sustainability of the investment, understood as the ability to meet the charges resulting from the investment itself with both own and third party means without compromising their own financial situation, financial autonomy and income capacity. The impact of the investment must be assessed with respect to the last approved financial statements prior to the date of submission of the application where this is present; the assessment must provide precise and explicit information on the higher or lower costs and/or higher or lower revenues resulting from the investment and in any case highlight the economic reasons justifying its implementation. This evaluation must be signed by the legal representative of the applicant company, by the trade association if the applicant company is a member, by the chairman of the internal control body, if appointed, and by the statutory auditor, if appointed, or if not, by a registered auditor

The procedure for granting or refusing aid is structured as follows

• procedure for the approval, by determination of the Director of the Agricultural Service, of a merit ranking of applications submitted within 45 days from the day following the deadline for submission of applications
• in accordance with Provincial Law no. 23/92, notification to the applicant of the person responsible for the procedure, of the position in the ranking list suitable for financing, of the supplementary documentation referred to in point 7.6 and of any request for regularisation or integration of the documentation for the purposes of the preliminary investigation and of the request for the estimated metric calculation in computerised form in spreadsheet format (.xls .xlsx .odf)
• alternatively a notice will be sent to the applicant of the ineligible position in the ranking list, due to lack of resources
• the procedure concludes with a determination by the Director of the Agricultural Service within 120 days from the approval of the ranking list (days when the administrative procedure expires) granting or denying the grant to the applicant. The act granting the contribution may impose conditions and constraints, in relation to the specific investment project, with reasons
• notice of grant/refusal of the grant.