IPARD FUNDS AND FOR WINEGROWERS AND WINEMAKERS

20. August 2019.

If you are involved in viticulture, you can apply for IPARD funds.

The new amendments to the rulebook for the use of IPARD funds stipulate that these funds may also be used by the farms engaged in viticulture and wine production.

Users of IPARD funds include:

Farms registered in the Vineyard Register, in accordance with the Law on Wine,
Farms with a minimum of 2 ha and a maximum of 100 ha of vineyards at the end of the investment, which have been entered in the Vineyard Register.

The following activities are supported:

Investing in growing new grapevines, and restructuring and conversion of the existing (applying a coat of paint and raising) grapevines.
Investing in the construction, reconstruction and equipping of storage capacities for grapes, including ULO capacities.
Investing in agricultural machinery (including tractors up to 100 kW) and equipment.

IPARD funds can also be used by producers of planting material:

Farms registered in the register of producers of planting material, in accordance with the Law on Planting Material of Grapevines and Hops with a minimum of 0.5 ha and with a maximum of 50 ha of vine plantations at the end of the investment.

Support to producers of planting material is provided for:

Investing in growing new seedlings of higher phytosanitary categories of planting material.
Investing in the construction, the equipping of facilities for the conservation and multiplication of planting material and the purchase of the equipment, devices, materials (including plant material) for nursery production, as well as storage capacities for the storage of planting material.

Source: Poljosfera and Coordination Body