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Description

Purpose

LEADER promotes the formation of Local Action Groups (LAGs) and the implementation of local development strategies.

Object

Funding is provided for individual projects, cross-regional or transnational cooperation between LAGs and LAG management.

Recipients of funding

All applicants with a legal personality (except public authorities) are eligible to apply.

Eligible costs

Funding is available for expenditure on investment and non-investment projects.

Type and amount

LEADER funding takes the form of a grant (project funding).

The rate of funding is between 30 % and 80 % of the eligible costs, depending on the type of project and the spatial funding context.

Prerequisites

Funding requirements

• The project must be selected by the LAG.
• The projects must serve to implement the local development strategy.
• Projects must not be compulsory tasks of local authorities.

Approval

Grants can only be awarded if the project in question has not yet been started.

Procedure

Application

Each project must first be submitted to the LAG for evaluation.

The application for funding must be submitted to the local LEADER office responsible for food, agriculture and forestry.

Special notes

The Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry is responsible for the implementation of LEADER in Bavaria.

The LEADER coordinators at 9 Offices for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (AELF) are responsible for advice, information and coordination in LEADER.

These 9 AELFs are also home to the approval offices for handling the funding procedure.

Deadlines

Applications for funding under the LAEDER Directive can be submitted until 31.12.2020

Required documents

• Complete grant application with attachments required depending on the project.

Forms

• Form, Bavaria-wide: LEADER-Förderanträge und Merkblätter

  Please note

  This form has to be signed and sent to the responsible authority. You can sign the form manually and send it by email/fax or sign the form electronically with your qualified electronic signature an send it by (secure) email. If the responsible authority has set up a De-Mail account, you can also send the form by De-Mail using an sender-confirmed message.

Legal bases

• LEADER-Förderrichtlinie für den Zeitraum 2014 bis 2020/23 im Rahmen der Maßnahmenbeschreibung LEADER gemäß Art. 32 bis 35 der Verordnung (EU) Nr. 1303/2013 und Art. 42 bis 44 der Verordnung (EU) Nr. 1305/2013

  Bekanntmachung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten, E3-7020.2-1/572; AllMBl. 2016 S. 2202; 7815-L

Links to more information

• LEADER in Bayern
• LEADER-Koordinatoren mit Zuständigkeitsbereichen

  Die LEADER-Koordinatoren sind in allen Fragen, die das EU-Förderprogramm LEADER betreffen, die zentralen Ansprechpartner.

• LEADER 2014 – 2020