Investments for the Modernization and Construction of Greenhouses and Accessible Crop Production Shelters

Beneficiaries or final recipients of the intervention will be natural persons, legal entities, and collective schemes under agricultural cooperative law (producer groups, producer organizations, agricultural cooperatives, and their unions).

Prospective natural persons must, as of the date of submission of the support application:

• Be adults, up to 63 years old, registered in the Register of Farmers and Agricultural Holdings.
• Have submitted an acceptable Single Application for Aid for the year 2024.
• Be up-to-date with their insurance and tax obligations.
• Not be directly receiving a pension from any fund, domestic or foreign, with the exception of disability pensions under Article 37 of Law 3996/2011 and Article 5, par. c, of Law 1287/1982.

Prospective legal entities under commercial law must, as of the date of submission of the support application:

• Have agriculture as an activity in their articles of association.
• Be up-to-date with their tax and insurance obligations.
• Have been established for a duration of at least until 31.12.2035 and in any case at least five (5) years after the completion of the investment plan.
• Provide a unified certificate of judicial solvency.

Prospective collective schemes under agricultural cooperative law, such as producer groups, producer organizations, agricultural cooperatives and their unions, and Social Cooperatives (KOINSEP), must, as of the date of submission of the support application:

• Not have submitted an aid request under Intervention "P2-47.FV-1a – Investments in tangible and intangible assets, research, and experimental and innovative production methods in the Operational Programs of Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organizations."
• Be registered and up-to-date in the relevant register, as defined by current legislation.
• Have distinct accounting management if the collective scheme falls under the regime of another legal entity.
• Show, for the three previous fiscal years from the year of submission, a profitable average of results before taxes and depreciation and an average turnover greater than €60,000, excluding newly established collective schemes (established within the three years prior to the year of submission).
• Be up-to-date with their tax and insurance obligations.
• Provide a unified certificate of judicial solvency.

For agricultural holdings of natural persons and legal entities (in cases where the legal entity owns an agricultural holding), the following must apply as of the date of submission of the support application:

• The entire agricultural holding must have been included in an acceptable Single Application for Aid for the year 2024.
• The agricultural holding must have a minimum productive capacity size (expressed as standard output) of €12,000, according to the 2024 Single Application for Aid.
• All holdings must comply with the relevant community standards, with the exception of holdings of young farmers establishing for the first time, who are granted a compliance period.

The budget for support applications can range from €30,001.00 up to €1,000,000.00. Intervention P3-73-2.9 is co-financed by the European Union (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development - EAFRD) and the Greek State (Public Investment Program - PIP). Support is provided in the form of a grant and can be combined with financial instruments.

The intensity (%) of the support provided varies depending on the type of investment, as follows:

Support intensity of 60% for eligible expenses in the following categories:

Cutting-edge technology

Hydroponics / Aeroponics systems

Purely electric self-propelled machinery (tractors, harvesting machines, etc.)

Support intensity of 50% for the remaining eligible expenses of the Call.

The support intensity for the above categories is increased by 10 percentage points for beneficiaries whose headquarters are located:

In the small islands of the Aegean Sea, in Thessaly, in the Evros Regional Unit, in the Municipality of Domokos, and in mainland areas included in the Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTPs), i.e., the entire Region of Western Macedonia and the Municipalities of Megalopoli, Tripoli, Gortynia, and Oichalia in the Region of Peloponnese, provided that the maximum support intensity does not exceed:

70% for beneficiaries whose headquarters are located in the small islands of the Aegean Sea.

65% for beneficiaries whose headquarters are located in Thessaly, in the Evros Regional Unit, in the Municipality of Domokos, and in mainland areas included in the Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTPs).

For investments implemented by young farmers, regardless of the location of the holding's headquarters, an increase in support intensity of 10 percentage points is provided, with a maximum support intensity of 70%.

Private participation is covered by the beneficiary of the support application with own funds and/or bank loans and is defined as the difference between the total budget of the support application and the Public Aid.

Public Aid is granted retrospectively, i.e., after the implementation of eligible expenses and their certification by the competent bodies as defined in the institutional framework.

To facilitate the financing of the implementation of support applications, an advance payment is provided, which is granted after the issuance of the inclusion decision and cannot exceed 50% of the respective remaining Public Aid. Receiving an advance payment is subject to the establishment of a bank

guarantee by the beneficiary corresponding to 100% of the requested advance payment amount.

Within the framework of the Intervention, the following expenses are eligible for support:

1. Construction, expansion, and modernization of agricultural buildings.

Greenhouses, net houses, permanent plant production facilities of TOL type from table 7.3 of Annex 7 of the Ministerial Decision, closed-type ISO 668 box cultivation chambers (hereinafter ISO 668 boxes), and closed mushroom chambers.

Warehouses and other storage areas.

Facilities for product preparation for first sale, such as cold storage, sorting facilities, washing facilities, packaging facilities, etc.

Fencing and landscaping of the surrounding area of the investments.

Prefabricated worker accommodation units.

Tissue culture laboratories.

All types of rainwater harvesting tanks (plastic, concrete, metal, etc., underground or above ground) for serving greenhouses or TOL-type plant production facilities, provided that the rainwater tank is filled with rainwater originating from the runoff of the holding's facilities.

2. Land purchase
3. Purchase, transport, and installation of new machinery and other equipment.

Equipment integrated into the facilities of paragraph 1 is supported, such as, indicatively, hydroponics, heating equipment, curtains, heating and cooling systems, etc.

Agricultural tractors of categories T2 and T4.1 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 167/2013 (excluding vehicles that can transport personnel other than the operator), used exclusively within the facilities of sub-paragraph 1.1.1 of paragraph 1, are supported.

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Plant production equipment used exclusively within the facilities of sub-paragraph 1.1.1 of paragraph 1 is supported, such as mounted or trailed soil tillage machinery, fertilizer spreaders, spraying machines including self-propelled spraying machines (excluding backpack sprayers) and safety equipment, harvesting machines and harvesting equipment, trailers with lifting and/or tipping (simple and tipping platforms, lifting ladders), mounted and trailed pruning equipment, mounted tractor attachments (e.g., lifts, loaders).

4. Purchase, transport, and installation of perennial crops installed within the structures of sub-paragraph 1.1.1 and whose installation is not done using seeds.
5. Purchase of a new refrigerated vehicle for serving flower production holdings, where flowers are produced exclusively within the facilities.
6. Purchase and installation of a computer and agricultural holding management software, communication, and office equipment.
7. Investments contributing to the utilization of RES.

Agrivoltaic and photovoltaic systems, grid-connected or autonomous.

Geothermal heat pumps (thermal energy geo-exchangers, hydro-geothermal drilling).

Heat pumps for thermal energy production.

Wind turbines for electricity generation, grid-connected or autonomous.

Biomass burners.

Fencing and landscaping of the surrounding area to serve investments in this category.

8. General expenses, which include all expenses for services directly related to the implementation of the investment plan. Indicatively, general expenses include fees for drafting and submitting support applications and payment requests, fees for preparing necessary studies and issuing required permits for the completion of the investment plan, as well as the cost of installing the prescribed explanatory sign.

Prospective beneficiaries, in order to be included in Intervention P3-73-2.9, submit their support application electronically to the Managing Authority (MA) via the Integrated State Aid Information System (OPSKE) at www.opske.gr, as well as a complete application file (electronically via OPSKE).

Based on the 1st Call for Expression of Interest for Intervention P3-73-2.9, the submission of electronic support applications and application files to OPSKE begins on 2025-06-23 and ends on 2025-08-26 at 15:00.

Beneficiaries may submit only one support application per Tax Identification Number (TIN). The selection and inclusion of beneficiaries are carried out through comparative evaluation and scoring of each application. Support applications that meet the eligibility criteria are scored based on the selection criteria defined in the institutional framework of Intervention P3-73-2.3 and are ranked in strictly descending order.

Applications that have received a score greater than or equal to the base score for each category are selected for support until the available credits are covered.