Union financial assistance
Article 43
The maximum Union financial assistance to be allocated to each producer organisation or association, as referred to in Article 62(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, shall be calculated pro rata based on the eligible hop areas of its producer members. To be eligible, the hop areas shall be planted at a uniform density of at least 1 500 plants per hectare in the case of double stringing/wiring, or at least 2 000 plants per hectare in the case of single stringing/wiring. The areas shall only include areas bounded by a line joining the outer stays of the poles. Where there are hop plants on that line, an additional strip of a width corresponding to the average width of an alleyway within that parcel may be added to each side of that area. The additional strip shall not form part of a public right of way. The two headlands at the ends of the hop rows that are needed for manoeuvring agricultural machinery may be included in the area, provided that the length of neither headland exceeds 8 metres and they are counted only once, and they do not form part of a public right of way. The areas shall not include areas planted with young hop plants grown chiefly as nursery products.