European Maritime and Fisheries Fund; application for funding.
The Free State of Bavaria supports investments in commercial pond management and fishing from its own funds and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF 2014 - 2021).
Description
Purpose and object
The EMFF 2014 - 2021 supports pond farmers and commercial fishermen to implement productive investments in their businesses, e.g. new construction or modernization of pond facilities, construction of farm buildings, purchase of machinery and equipment for production or processing and marketing of fish and fish products. Likewise, the development of the so-called fishery areas is supported. These are certain regions that are particularly characterized by pond farming and in which Fisheries Local Action Groups have been formed to implement local development strategies.
The aim is to promote sustainable, competitive and innovative aquaculture and inland fishing in Bavaria.
Recipients of funding
Eligible applicants are
- Fish farming enterprises (proof of commercial pond farming/fishing must be submitted).
- Commercial enterprises in the processing and treatment of fish industry products
- Fisheries associations and organizations
Type and amount
The grant is awarded as a subsidy or allocation (project funding) by way of share funding. In the case of conversion to organic aquaculture, the grant is awarded as a fixed amount (compensation for additional costs or loss of income).
As a rule, the subsidy rate is 50%. In the case of measures carried out by public institutions or collective beneficiaries, an increase in the subsidy rate is possible.
The grant is limited to a total grant of max. EUR 250,000 per beneficiary. This ceiling can be exhausted at most once in the EMFF program.
Prerequisites
Support for a project is subject to the condition that the economic viability of the project appears assured. Suitable documents must be submitted for evaluation, which also show that the sales volumes can be achieved on a sustainable basis. The following cases are exempt from this requirement:
- Investments related to animal health and welfare, including the purchase of equipment to protect breeding facilities against wild predators,
- Investments that improve safety, hygiene, health and working conditions,
- Investments in the stability of pond dams during floods,
- Projects to improve water supply and water treatment, including aeration to safeguard production.
Procedure
Grants must be applied for in writing using the official forms from the granting authority (= State Management Academy for Food, Agriculture and Forestry). A separate grant application must be submitted for each area of action (numbers of the guideline). The application must be accompanied by a detailed list of the planned measures or investments with corresponding offers or a well-founded cost estimate.
Aquaculture sector (incl. direct marketing)
For applications in the area of aquaculture, the second stage of the selection procedure will be applied as of October 15, 2019, with the following procedure:
- Applications may be submitted until the specified application deadlines in each case.
- All applications that have been received in full by the granting authority by the application deadline and are eligible in principle will be awarded points based on specific selection criteria.
- Applications will be ranked according to the number of points achieved. Applications with high scores will be given priority over applications with lower scores until the budget available for that selection round is exhausted.
- Incomplete applications and applications not selected due to exceeding the budget will be rejected.
- Rejected applications may be resubmitted at the next application deadline, provided the project is not started.
Special notes
The application period ended on December 31, 2021. Applications received by the end of 2023 will be approved or settled.
A successor program is expected to start in the second half of 2022.
Deadlines
The application period ended on December 31, 2021.
Applications received by the end of 2023 will be approved or settled.
A successor program is expected to start in the second half of 2022.
Links to more information
Status:14.03.2023
Responsible for editing:Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten
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- Form, Bavaria-wide
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- Prefillable Form, Bavaria-wide
- Legal bases, Bavaria-wide
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- Fees, Bavaria-wide
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