Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2030 of 23 July 2024 providing for emergency financial support for the fruit and vegetables sector and the wine sector affected by adverse climatic events in Austria, Czechia and Poland, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2030
• Articles: 3

Article 1

1.   Union aid of a total amount of EUR 10 million shall be available to Austria, Union aid of a total amount of EUR 15 million shall be available to Czechia and Union aid of a total amount of EUR 37 million shall be available to Poland, to provide exceptional support to farmers subject to the conditions set out in this Regulation.

2.   Austria, Czechia and Poland shall use the amounts referred to in paragraph 1 for measures aiming to compensate the most affected farmers in the fruit and vegetables sector and in the wine sector, for the economic losses impacting on the viability of farmers.

3.   The measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall be taken on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria that take account of the actual economic losses borne by the affected farmers and ensure that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion.

4.   Austria, Czechia and Poland shall ensure that, when farmers are not the direct beneficiaries of the payments of the Union aid, the economic benefit of the Union aid is passed on to them in full.

5.   The expenditure borne by Austria, Czechia and Poland referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to the payments for the measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall only be eligible for Union aid if those payments are made by 31 January 2025.

6.   Measures under this Regulation may be cumulated with other support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.

7.   Austria, Czechia and Poland may grant additional national support for the measures taken under paragraph 2 up to a maximum of 200 % of the respective amounts set out in paragraph 1, on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria, provided that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion, or overcompensation.

8.   In order to avoid overcompensation, when granting support under this Regulation, Austria, Czechia and Poland shall take into account the support granted under other national or Union support instruments or private schemes to respond to the economic losses concerned.

Article 2

1.   Without delay, and no later than 31 October 2024, Austria, Czechia and Poland shall notify to the Commission of the following, in relation to the measures referred to in Article 1:

(a)

a description of the measures to be taken;

(b)

the criteria used to determine the methods for granting the aid, its amounts and the rationale for distributing the aid across farmers;

(c)

the intended impact of the measures in view of compensating farmers for economic losses;

(d)

the actions taken to verify that the intended impact of the measures is reached;

(e)

the actions taken to avoid distortion of competition and overcompensation;

(f)

the forecast for payments of the Union expenditure broken-down per month until 31 January 2025;

(g)

the level of additional support granted pursuant to Article 1(7);

(h)

the actions taken to control the eligibility of farmers and to protect the financial interests of the Union.

2.   No later than 15 June 2025, Austria, Czechia and Poland shall notify the Commission of the total amounts paid per measure, when applicable, broken down by Union aid and additional national aid, the number and type of beneficiaries and the assessment of the effectiveness of the measure.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .