SRD03 - Investments in agricultural holdings for diversification

The Intervention is aimed at boosting investments for farm diversification activities that favour economic growth and sustainable development in rural areas, also contributing to improve territorial balance, both in economic and social terms.
In addition, it contributes to achieving the general objectives of Article 5(c) (strengthening the socio-economic fabric of rural areas) and the following objectives of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

• SO2 Improve market orientation and increase farm competitiveness in the short and long term, including through an increased focus on research, technology and digitisation.
• SO8 Promote employment, growth, gender equality, including women's participation in agriculture, social inclusion and local development in rural areas, including the circular bio-economy and sustainable forestry.

The following investment operations are implemented under the specific purposes of intervention sheet SRD03 in the PHP:

1. Investments for agritourism (including educational farms) and wine tourism

2. Social agriculture

3. Structures for the processing, preservation and marketing of products not included in Annex I of the TFEU obtained mainly from farm produce.

Further information on eligibility criteria, eligible and non-eligible costs, selection criteria and how to apply for aid can be found in the text of the notice approved by decision of the Provincial Council No 1959 of 29 November 2024.

Time schedule of Intervention calls and financial amount per call

The total public expenditure for Intervention SRD03 for the 2023-2027 programming period is € 3,871,319.55.

Form and amount of support and intervention expenditure limits

1.The support is granted in the form of a capital contribution.

2. The contributions are granted pursuant to EU Regulation no. 2023/2831 of the Commission of 13 December 2023 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid. Thetotal amount of "de minimis" aid granted by a Member State to a single enterprise shall not exceed EUR 300,000 over any three-year period.

3. The amount of support shall be established as set out in the table below:

4. The minimum amount of eligible expenditure per application is EUR 30,000.00 excluding VAT, both at the grant and at the final payment stage.

5. The maximum eligible expenditure per aid application is € 500,000.00 excluding VAT.

6. In the case of applications submitted by farmers who are 65 years of age or older on the date the application is submitted, the maximum eligible expenditure is €100,000.00 excluding VAT. In the case of companies and associations of companies, this provision applies if the average age of the members is over 65.

7. The specific expenditure limits per investment operation are set out in Annex 1 to Resolution No. 1959/2024.

Compatibility and cumulation with other aids and facilities

The provisions of section 4.7.3, paragraph 2 of the PSP apply with regard to the cumulation of aid and double financing. In application of section 4.7.3, aid and payment applications will be submitted on an information system that monitors and avoids double payment of interventions and respects the maximum aid intensity applicable to the intervention as established in Title III of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.

Demarcation (double financing)

1. With reference to Intervention SRG06 - LEADER - implementation of local development strategies, for applicants operating within the territorial scope of Intervention SRG06, for each individual project, initiatives with requested expenditure of less than €250,000.00 are not eligible under this Intervention SRD03.

2. The purchase of equipment and furnishings for the exhibition and tasting of farm wine products is facilitated under the Sectoral wine intervention - investments (ex OCM Vino) and is therefore not eligible under intervention SRD03.

Cumulability of aid

1. Expenditure financed under this measure is not eligible for any other financing through European Union financial instruments.

2. The same expenditure may be supported through national (state or regional) State aid schemes only if the total cumulated amount granted with the different forms of support does not exceed the maximum aid intensity or the aid amount applicable to the type of intervention in question, as laid down in Title III of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.

Selection of aid applications

l Scoring requirements must be met by the applicant at the time the aid application is submitted.

The single ranking list for access to aid applications submitted is drawn up on the basis of the scores awarded as specified in point 7 of Resolution No 1959/2024 and set out in the attached document.

Eligibility conditions for applicants

On the date of submission of the aid application, each applicant is obliged to set up and update its own electronic farm file in accordance with Presidential Decree No 503/99 et seq. and ii. The farm file is the set of information declared by the farm, checked and verified and unambiguously ascertained through the IACS. For information on the farm file, contact the Provincial Paying Agency - APPAG, at the following link:http://www.appag.provincia.tn.it/APPAG/Fascicolo-aziendale.

For all investment operations, the applicant must be the owner or holder of a registered right in rem of enjoyment of the land parcels or buildings that are the subject of the intervention, in order to ensure compliance with the destination restrictions set out in point 12. Alternatively, this requirement may be held by a partner of the applicant enterprise, provided that 100% of the ownership or other right in rem is attributable to the partners of the enterprise.

The requirement of ownership of the property or ownership of a registered right in rem in respect of the property is not required for the following cases

a)investments of an amount not exceeding 100,000.00 euro provided that the assets concerned are held by the applicant under a duly registered title of use and the owner authorises the execution of the works envisaged by the investment

b)operations relating to works on structures owned by public bodies, civic use bodies, consortia or foundations leased or granted to farmers under a duly registered title of use.

Beneficiaries are individual or associated agricultural entrepreneurs, within the meaning of Article 2135 of the Civil Code, with the exclusion of entrepreneurs who carry out exclusively forestry and aquaculture activities, in possession of an agricultural VAT number and registration with the C.C.I.A.A. as of the date of submission of the application.

To submit the application it is necessary to

- have a digital signature;

- whoever enters the application (the applicant or the appointed consultant) must be accredited to the portal, as specified on this web page

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.

Only one application may be submitted

The following shall constitute grounds for the inadmissibility of the application

1. failure to meet the deadline for submitting applications
2. the absence of information enabling the applicant to be unequivocally identified;
3. failure of the legal representative to sign the application;
4. the submission of applications using methods other than those described above;
5. applications signed by a person other than the legal representative or a person expressly delegated or without a signature.

The application must be submitted online by accessing the provincial agricultural information system SRTrento by the deadline of 30 April 2025. Access to the reserved area is permitted only to registered users.

SRTrento can also be accessed via the portal https://a4g.provincia.tn.it/ .

For the documentation to be attached to the aid application under penalty of non-admissibility, please refer to point 7.5 of Criteria Resolution No. 1959/2024.

PROCEDURAL PROCESS

The procedure for granting or refusing aid is structured as follows:

1.procedure for the approval, by determination of the Director of the Agricultural Service, of a merit ranking of the applications submitted within 45 days starting from the day after the deadline for submission of applications;

2. communication to the applicant of the person in charge of the procedure, of the position in the ranking list eligible for financing, of the possible request for regularisation or integration of the documentation for the purposes of the preliminary investigation, and of the request for the estimated metric calculation on computer support in spreadsheet format (.xls .xlsx .odf)

3.alternatively a communication shall be sent to the applicant of the position in the ranking list ineligible for financing;

4. the present criteria provide for a single call for Intervention SRD03 in the 2023-2027 programming and this call uses all the resources available in the CSR 2023-2027 financial plan. For this reason it is deemed necessary, at the end of the approvals (or possible denials) of the applications placed in a suitable position for funding in the priority list within the maximum term of 18 months from the date of approval of the same, to recover any savings resulting from: reduced needs during the examination of individual applications, waivers, revocations or reduced payments and anything else that may result in the availability of resources within the financial plan established for the SRD03 CSR Intervention. With these resources, the priority ranking list of the applications included in it and not financed due to the exhaustion of resources will be scrolled. The scrolling may also be carried out following any increase authorised in the CSR financial plan for SRD03. To this end, applicants will be asked to confirm their interest in funding. The deadlines of the procedure will start again from the day following the date of approval of the priority ranking list by which the financial availability and the applications that will fall within this provision will be acknowledged;

5. the procedure ends with a determination of 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 contribution to the applicant. The act granting the contribution may impose conditions and constraints in relation to the specific investment project;

6. notification of the grant/denial of the grant.