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Brussels – The European Fee permitted on Thursday a Romanian state assist scheme price two billion lei (400 million euros), aimed toward compensating farmers for losses suffered as a consequence of extreme drought in the course of the interval September 2023 – August 2024, informs a communication from the Group Government.
The scheme is open to agricultural producers who’ve been straight affected by the extreme drought, for 39 crops (comparable to wheat, triticale, barley, oats, rapeseed, sunflower, and corn). To learn from assist, agricultural producers should have misplaced at the very least 30% of their crops in the course of the interval between autumn 2023 and summer season 2024 as a result of drought.
In response to the scheme permitted by the Group Government, the aids will likely be within the type of direct grants. The assist is a most of 1,000 lei (200 euros) for every hectare within the case of 100% losses, and it’ll not exceed 30% of eligible prices. The aids will likely be granted till December 31, 2024.
The Fee concluded that the measure is critical, enough, and proportionate to treatment a severe disturbance within the economic system of a Member State, in accordance with the TFEU and the circumstances supplied within the short-term framework. (24.10.2024)
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