The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has posted a draft decision in the Institutional Transparency section of its website regarding the provision of emergency support for the cereals and oilseed sector.

The value of the exceptional unitary support in the form of a grant is 2 lei/liter of diesel fuel for a total quantity of 152,458,321.08 liters of diesel fuel corresponding to corn, barley, rapeseed, and sunflower crops.

The beneficiaries of this emergency support are agricultural producers, regardless of their organizational form, who submitted a single payment application in 2022 for a determined area of at least 1 hectare as part of the national transitional aid 1 for one or more of the following crops: corn, barley, rapeseed, and sunflower and who submitted a payment application for plant sector interventions in 2023 by the application deadline.

"We have devised this emergency support for Romanian farmers in the plant sector who have had an extremely difficult year. Thus, farmers will receive financial support for 50% of their diesel fuel consumption in 2022. The support is granted to beneficiaries for the areas related to the single payment application submitted in 2022 for a minimum of 1 hectare with one or more of the crops mentioned: corn, barley, rapeseed, and sunflower," stated Minister Florin-Ionuț BARBU.

The total financial resources for this support scheme are 304,916,642.16 lei, of which 147,118,905 lei comes from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (FEGA), and 157,797,737.16 lei comes from the state budget.

This support is granted based on the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1343 of June 30, 2023, and aims to compensate agricultural producers in the plant sector for the economic losses caused by the increase in imports of cereals and oilseeds from Ukraine.

The authority responsible for implementing this emergency support is the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture, both at the central level and through its territorial structures. Payment for this support will be made by December 31, 2023.

It should be noted that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development continues to implement a program for the reimbursement of excise duty on diesel fuel used in agriculture, through which farmers have already received 1.63 lei/liter of diesel fuel used in agriculture for the year 2022. The emergency support outlined in the current legislative act is in addition to the aforementioned state aid.

You can consult the draft project here: Link