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Natural or legal person/s who promote and realize an investment, spending
or action towards the rural areas' economic diversification programmes
approved by the local Proder action groups selected for the application
of the measures (M5, P and S) included in the Rural Development Plan
(RDP).
Measure M5: Promoting the commercialisation of high quality farm products
and handmade food products, in order to maintain, improve and enlarge
businesses dedicated to the commercialisation of quality and handmade
food products in rural areas:
- High quality food products with distinctions in origin
- Products with distinctions in quality and origin (PDO, PGI, GD,
EGT)
- Products from integrated and organic production
- Q Mark
- Handmade food products
- It will enable an extensive improvement in the transformation and
commercialisation of farm products, in accordance with the modifications
of the RDP (2000-2006) of Catalonia being approved by the European
Commission.
Measure P: Diversification of farming and similar activities to increase
the possibilities of new jobs in alternative ambits, promoting the creation
of new businesses and activity in the farming sector, in order to increase
the possibilities of employment in rural areas, by means of:
- The promotion farming activity not linked to the production, transformation
and commercialisation of agricultural production.
- Complementing the farmers' revenue with new sources of income from
activities which are compatible with farming.
- Facilitating the start up in rural areas of small local business
enterprises linked to the creation of jobs and alternative incomes.
- Increasing the incorporation of women and young people in the workplace
and generating new activity in the rural economy.
Measure S: The promotion of tourism and crafts, by means of the support
of touristic investment in the rural sector, along with investment focused
on the promotion and development of local and regional crafts, thus
contributing to complementary incomes in the area, by means of:
- Investment in rural areas, with a view to the development of touristic
activity, leisure activity companies and complementary private activities.
- The development of craft companies implementing promotion, standardization
and commercialisation of local and regional products to increase their
added value.
| LIMITATIONS AND
INCOMPATIBILITY |
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The deadline to present applications is the 30th of June 2005.
Eligible investment must be implemented exclusively within the area of
application of the Garrigues Territory Development Consortium, in accordance
with the Order ARP/186/2002, of 3rd of June (DOGC 3652 of 7/6/2002).
Beneficiaries must conserve the receipts and all documentation related
to the investment, spending or activity for the duration of five years
after the assistance being paid.
Beneficiaries must commit themselves to direct the investment to be
realized to the subsidized objective for a minimum of 5 years after
the assistance certification date.
The beneficiaries are obliged to provide all information required
by the General Intervention Office of the Catalan Government, the Accounts
Receivership, or other competent entities.
Incompatibilities
The Proder assistance is incompatible with any other assistance which,
conceded for the same objective, is funded by Community funds. Therefore,
the assistance conceded in this regime, either alone or as an accumulation
of other possible assistances, will by no means exceed the maximum authorized
in this regime, approved for the corresponding measures of the RDP of
Catalonia by the Resolution of the Commission 2658 of 14th of September
2000, or the cost of investment, spending or activities which the beneficiary
must realize.
Spending related to the buying of land, buildings, second hand equipment
or non-justified labour will not be subsidized, neither will spending
for studies of viability, rent, the acquisition of patents, licences
or permits. Technical honoraries, provided they correspond to approved
activities, will be eligible, with maximum of 12% of the cost of the
investment actually executed.
| TYPE OF ASSISTANCE |
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The assistance will consist of direct subventions to be applied to investments,
spending or the activities of the final beneficiaries.
The maximum subvention percentages are the following:
- Non-productive investments realized by non-profit making entities:
up to a maximum of 50% of the total eligible costs.
- Productive investments: up to a maximum of 35% of the total eligible
costs.
In the case of productive and non-productive investments, the maximum
assistance will by no means exceed 100,000 Euros in a three year period,
counting from the day of acceptance of the concession, when more than
one assistance is applied for within a three year period.
Technical honoraries will be eligible, provided they correspond to
approved activities, with maximum of 12% of the cost of the investment
actually executed.
Assistance is co-financed by the Department of Agriculture Stockbreeding
and Fisheries (DARP); the Spanish Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries
and Food (MAPA), and EAGGF, as provided by the Rural Development Programme
(RDP).
| FOR FURTHER INFORMATION... |
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Further information is available in the main provisions regulating this
assistance:
- Council Regulation EC 1257/1999, of 17th of May 1999, establishing
the grounds of common assistance to rural development by the European
Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF).
- Correction of mistakes in the Council's Regulation EC 1257/1999,
of 17th May 1999, establishing the grounds of common assistance to
rural development by the European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee
Fund (EAGGF).
- Royal Decree 2/2002, of 11th of January, Spanish Ministry for Agriculture
Fisheries and Food. (BOE 12/01/2002, no. 11), regulating the application
of the Community initiative Leader Plus and the endogenous development
programmes of local action groups, included in the Integrated Operating
Programmes and the Rural Development Programmes (Proder)
- Resolution ARP/1096/2002, of the 25th of April, which publicizes
the selected local action groups and the amounts assigned for the application
of the Proder programme.
- Resolution ARP/1498/2002, of 28th of May, which approves and publicizes
the criteria for priority and specific lists related to the selected
local action groups' programmes for the application of the Proder programme.
- Order ARP/186/2002, of 3rd of June, for which the base regulations
of assistance in the application for the economic diversification of
rural areas participating in the Proder programme are approved and
those corresponding to the period 2002-2006 are called.
| FINANCIAL CHART |
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GTDC GROUP: INVESTMENT PROVIDED: 15.44 M EUR (2,569,000,000
PTA)
GRANTED SUBSIDE (M EUR)
- Total: EU + DARP + MAPA: 5.11 M EUR (851,000,000 PTA)
- EU: 1.70 M EUR (282,856,200 PTA)
- DARP + MAPA: 3.41 M EUR (567,376,260 PTA)
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