Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1137 of 10 June 2025 providing for emergency financial support for the agricultural sectors affected by adverse climatic events and natural disasters in Czechia and Slovenia, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1137
• Articles: 3

Article 1

1.   Union aid of a total amount of EUR 7 400 000 shall be available to Czechia and a total amount of EUR 2 900 000 shall be available to Slovenia to provide exceptional support to farmers subject to the conditions set out in this Regulation.

2.   Czechia and Slovenia shall use the amount referred to in paragraph 1 for measures aiming to compensate the most affected farmers for their economic losses impacting on the viability of their farms, in the sectors and productions impacted by adverse climatic events and natural disasters in the regions affected.

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. The measures shall be of such a nature that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion.

4.   Czechia and Slovenia 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 Czechia and Slovenia of the amounts 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 December 2025 at the latest.

6.   For the purposes of Article 30(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/127, the operative event for the exchange rate as regards the amount of EUR 7 400 000 set out in Article 1(1) of this Regulation shall be the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

7.   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.

8.   Czechia and Slovenia 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. Czechia and Slovenia shall pay the additional national support by 31 March 2026 at the latest.

9.   In order to avoid overcompensation, when granting support under this Regulation, Czechia and Slovenia 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 August 2025, Czechia and Slovenia shall notify to the Commission of the following, in relation to the measures referred to in Article 1(2):

(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 methods and 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 December 2025;

(g)

the level of additional national support to be granted pursuant to Article 1(8);

(h)

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

2.   No later than 30 June 2026, Czechia and Slovenia shall notify the Commission of the total amounts paid per measure, when applicable, broken down by Union aid and additional national support, 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 .