€ 851 million in aid is paid to 600,000 farmers

More than € 851 million in aid is currently credited to the accounts of 600,000 beneficiaries, according to the Community Guidance and Guarantee Payments and Control Agency. “Today OPEKEPE pays 851 million euros to about 600,000 farmers for basic aid. Yesterday ELGA paid 71 million euros for the ‘Spring ’21 frost”. The government is fulfilling its commitments, “he told the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency. Minister of Rural Development and Food Spilios Libanos and added: “The Ministry of Rural Development and Food is on the side of our farmers and supports their work with actions. We rationalize the system and eliminate injustices where they exist. Our goal is to strengthen the real producers and to give young people the opportunity to choose the agricultural profession as an essential way of life and not as a simple solution of need “.

The aid of EUR 851 million concerns:

-Balance of basic aid amounting to 332,332,959.15 euros to 594,463 beneficiaries, which corresponds to the total amount entitled (100%). Of the above-mentioned basic aid amount granted today, approximately € 31 million relates to entitlements from the 2021 national reserve. farmers amounts to 965,767,722.59 million.

– Green aid amounting to 491,308,426.18 euros to 600,137 beneficiaries.

– Aid for young farmers, amounting to 28,006,379.03 euros to 64,881 beneficiaries.

As OPEKEPE points out in its announcement, the total net amount of 833,189,688.42 euros paid today, results from the gross amount of 851,647,764.36 euros, after the application of a withholding of approximately 1.66%, due to budgetary discipline (for amounts of direct payments over 2,000 euros, based on Regulation (EU) 1306/2013) and any set-offs with sanctions of previous years. The amount of fiscal discipline is reimbursed in the following financial year.