Grants under Provincial Law 11/2007 – Article 97 and Article 55 on forestry infrastructure

This scheme provides support to forest owners for the improvement and development of infrastructure to facilitate the multifunctional use of forests. The aid consists of a grant equivalent to 65 per cent of the eligible expenditure for the investment.

Eligible types of work:

a. upgrading and/or improvement of existing and classified forest and forestry-pastoral road networks, leading to a significant improvement of the entire road – defined as a homogeneous classified section – in terms of both traffic safety and journey times for vehicles, including the conversion from an ordinary forest road to a forest road suitable for lorries. Minor works involving short extensions (300 metres or less) to the existing road network are considered to be upgrades;

b. the construction of new forest and forestry-pastoral roads or non-short extensions (i.e. longer than 300 m) to existing forest and forestry-pastoral roads;

c. upgrading of existing forestry yards connected to forest roads suitable for lorries or public roads.

Obligations relating to investment operations

The grant recipient must ensure:

• that the infrastructure is maintained and remains operational for at least 5 years from the date of submission of the final payment;

• the classification of the forest road must be maintained for at least 10 years and, in the case of a new construction, it must be classified within 1 year of the date of submission of the final payment.

Beneficiaries subject to public procurement are required to follow the procedures laid down in the Public Procurement Code (Legislative Decree No. 36 of 31 March 2023).

Owners (public or private), their associations and those managing wooded areas are eligible for the aid.

The application must be digitally signed by the person authorised to sign the document; otherwise, it will be deemed inadmissible.

For assistance with accessing and logging in to the portal, please contact the following email address helpdesk.srtrento@provincia.tn.it.

Eligibility criteria for applicants

On the date of submission of the grant application, each applicant:

1. must hold title to, or have appropriate rights of use over, the land parcels or buildings covered by the project in order to ensure compliance with and the duration of any restrictions imposed on the funded investments.

2. The applicant must not have previously received and subsequently waived aid, for the same project, provided for under the calls for proposals of the National Strategic Plan for the CAP 2023–2027 – project SRD11.

Failure to meet any of the above requirements will result in ineligibility for support.

All necessary requirements and selection criteria are set out in the text of the call for applications approved by Provincial Council Resolution No. 1105 of 17 July 2026.

Applications must be submitted online via the provincial agricultural information system SRTrento at https://srt.infotn.it, which can also be accessed via the portal https://a4g.provincia.tn.it/, within the specified deadlines.

Access to the restricted area is permitted only to registered users; each user must first register in accordance with the procedures set out in the user guides on the SRTrento website’s home page. The application must be digitally signed by the person authorised to sign the document; otherwise, it will be deemed inadmissible. For any assistance with accessing and registering on the portal, please contact helpdesk.srtrento@provincia.tn.it

Documents to be attached to the application for aid:

• Technical and economic feasibility study, including a bill of quantities and a technical explanatory report;

• ‘List of permits and authorisations obtained’ form (e.g. SCIA, CIL, CILA, planning permission, authorisations, opinions, clearances);

• Permits and authorisations obtained and specified in the list referred to in the previous point;

Procedure for granting or refusing the grant

The procedure for granting or refusing the grant is divided as follows:

1. notification of the commencement of the administrative procedure and provision of the information required under Provincial Law 23/1992, as amended;

2. verification of the documentary eligibility of all applications submitted and the drawing up of the list of beneficiaries (ranking list), taking into account the priorities and scoring criteria set out in this call for applications.

Applications that do not meet the eligibility criteria for applicants or that do not achieve the minimum required score shall be deemed ineligible;

3. approval, by decision of the Head of the Forestry Service, of a merit-based ranking of applications within 90 days from the closing date for the submission of such applications, marking the conclusion of the first phase of the administrative procedure pursuant to Provincial Law 23/1992, as amended and supplemented. The decision shall contain a list of all applications submitted, divided into eligible applications with their respective scores (ranking list) and ineligible applications.

Eligible applications will be categorised as follows:

a. eligible applications potentially eligible for funding on the basis of the allocation provided for in point 8;

b. eligible applications on the reserve list (a list intended to make up for any reductions in expenditure determined during the subsequent technical assessment phase, drawn from the ranking list up to a maximum of 20 per cent of the aforementioned allocation);

c. eligible applications not to be subject to technical assessment.

The ranking list shall remain valid for no more than 12 months from the date of its approval.

4. notification to the applicant of their application’s position on the list approved by the decision referred to in the previous point. This notification also serves to inform the applicant of the immediate commencement of the technical assessment or of the application being placed on hold pending a possible subsequent review;

5. Adoption of the grant decision, subject to the completion of the technical assessment aimed at drawing up the ‘Technical and Administrative Verification Report’ by the designated technical officer, with a view to defining the amount and type of eligible expenditure and the corresponding grant;

The assessment and subsequent grant are processed strictly in accordance with the order of the merit list, in accordance with the following procedures:

6. for applications covered by the initial allocation set out in Chapter 8, the grant decision shall be adopted within 90 days from the day following the date of adoption of the resolution approving the merit ranking list;

7. should additional financial resources become available during the ranking list’s period of validity (arising from withdrawals, savings on expenditure or increases in the allocation authorised by the Provincial Executive), the Forestry Service shall proceed to move down the ranking list, initiating the technical assessment for the subsequent eligible applications. In such cases, the 90-day period for the adoption of the grant decision shall run from the date of the administrative act confirming the actual availability of funds in the relevant budget headings.

The grant decision may impose conditions that must be fulfilled prior to payment. The amount awarded may not, under any circumstances, exceed the theoretical maximum resulting from the application of the eligibility ranking criteria. Decisions to award grants may be made cumulatively, even in several instalments, taking into account the progression of the ranking list. Applications deemed eligible but not funded due to the exhaustion of financial resources shall be deemed rejected upon expiry of the ranking list’s validity period, without the need to issue individual rejection notices.

8. Notification to the applicant of the grant’s approval or rejection;

9. submission and management of any applications for changes during construction and/or extensions.

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