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Amendments to Ordinance No. 8 on interventions in beekeeping embrace associations and micro-firms as beneficiaries – 2024-07-04 13:30:43


The position of cameras for video surveillance of the apiary will even be sponsored

As a consequence of errors found by the Company “Certification audit of funds from the European Agricultural Funds” concerning the help of the beekeeping sector, the Ministry of Agriculture proposes amendments and additions to Ordinance No. 8 on the phrases and circumstances for implementing interventions from the Strategic Plan for the Improvement of Agriculture and Rural Areas for the interval 2023-2027 within the sector of beekeeping.

One of many findings is that in intervention I.E.8 – “Cooperation with specialised our bodies for the implementation of analysis packages within the area of beekeeping and bee merchandise” doesn’t foresee the participation of micro-enterprises within the area of honey processing.

The second discovering pertains to the omission that the refund of sums already paid, along with the statutory curiosity, applies to your complete monitoring interval of three years, as an alternative of solely to the months from the fee of the help to the detection of the violation/default. This has been corrected within the draft regulation.

For 2 of the interventions – “Consultancy providers, technical help, coaching, data and trade of fine practices, together with by networking, for beekeepers and beekeeping organizations” and “Promotion, communication and advertising and marketing, together with market surveillance actions and actions, aimed particularly at growing client consciousness of the standard of bee merchandise’, associations uniting producers and processors of agricultural merchandise within the beekeeping sector have additionally been launched as eligible candidates.

IN undertaking of the Ordinance on the intervention “Consulting providers, technical help, coaching, data and trade of fine practices, together with by networking, for beekeepers and beekeeping organizations”, exercise “Data seminars/lectures to extend information on particular subjects aimed on the sector beekeeping”, among the many subjects, it’s obligatory to incorporate questions on Natura 2000, associated to the targets of the ecological community and the function of farmers in attaining them.

Within the proposed draft of the Ordinance, transitional and closing provisions present for an extension of the deadline for the implementation of the prices and the deadline for submitting purposes for fee – till 30.09.2024, just for the monetary 12 months 2024 and just for the candidates who concluded a contract underneath situation that monetary help can be paid to them for the bills incurred by them, in case of launch of funds. The funds are shaped from refusals or partial non-fulfillment or unsubmitted purposes for fee by help customers underneath concluded contracts and reductions on account of checks on submitted purposes for fee and refusals from the DFZ. The purpose is to allow these candidates to make an knowledgeable judgment concerning the conclusion of the bills, because the similar are paid to them within the presence of a free monetary useful resource.

In Appendix No. 1 to Artwork. 9, para. 1 of Ordinance No. 8 of 2023 concerning the required property by sorts with analysis and capability indicators, for the asset “safety and video surveillance system” an modification was made, which permits the candidates underneath the intervention “Investments in tangible and intangible property” to say a set of the above system that features any sort of CCTV cameras, not simply Wi-Fi, in view of the truth that apiaries could be positioned in areas the place Web entry is just not offered.

Undertaking

Ordinance amending and supplementing Ordinance No. 8 of 2023 on the circumstances and procedures for implementing interventions from the Strategic Plan for improvement of agriculture and rural areas for the interval 2023-2027 within the beekeeping sector

(promulgated, SG No. 54 of 2023; amended and supplemented, Nos. 74 and 98 of 2023)

§ 1. In Artwork. 9, para. 4 the next modifications are made:

1. In merchandise 1, the primary sentence is amended as follows: “at the very least three comparable affords and a contract with the chosen tenderer are offered for every requested expenditure, in originals when they’re digital paperwork, or scanned copies of the unique paperwork;”, creates a brand new sentence two: “affords ought to be issued by individuals who aren’t associated to one another or to the candidate;”, and the earlier sentences two and three turn into sentences three and 4, respectively.

2. In merchandise 2, the primary sentence is amended as follows: “within the occasion that the candidate didn’t select the bottom supply, he ought to current a written justification for the explanations that decided his selection;” and within the third sentence the phrases “inquiry, affords, choice and contract’ are changed by ‘affords and contract’.

§ 2. In Artwork. 12 merchandise 7 is created:

“7. associations registered underneath the Regulation on non-profit authorized entities for public profit, which unite producers and processors of bee merchandise.”

§ 3. In Artwork. 13, para. 1, the second sentence is created: “The subjects should additionally embrace questions on Natura 2000, associated to the goals of the ecological community and the function of farmers in attaining them.”.

§ 4. In Artwork. 14, para. 4, merchandise 4 the phrases “underneath Artwork. 12, gadgets 1-3” are changed by “underneath Artwork. 14, gadgets 1-3 and seven”.

§ 5. In Artwork. 18 the next amendments and additions are made:

1. In al. 1:

a) in merchandise 1, the phrase “licensed” is changed by “licensed”;

b) in merchandise 3, the phrase “licensed” is changed by “licensed”.

2. In al. 2:

a) merchandise 3a is created:

“3a. the utilized for financing the VLP and means to combat in opposition to the aggressors and the ailments within the hive are for as much as two remedies of the bee colonies (spring and/or autumn), carried out within the interval underneath Artwork. 5 for the related admission;’;

b) in merchandise 4, the phrases “services licensed to commerce in LPG” are changed by “services which have acquired permission to commerce in LPG”.

§ 6. In Artwork. 35, para. 2, merchandise 6, the phrases “small and medium” are changed by “micro, small and medium”.

§ 7. In Artwork. 38 merchandise 3 is created:

“3. associations registered underneath the Regulation on Non-Revenue Authorized Entities for Public Profit, which unite producers and processors of bee merchandise.”

§ 8. In Artwork. 41, para. 1 is amended as follows:

“(1) Candidates for monetary help underneath the interventions of the Strategic Plan shall submit a single software for help and, relying on the exercise for which the applying is being made, connect to the Digital Providers System (ESS) the related paperwork specified within the software.”

§ 9. In Artwork. 51, para. 3 after the phrases “in case in ISAK” is added “and the Data System for the administration and monitoring of funds from the European Funds underneath shared administration”.

§ 10. In Artwork. 52, para. 1 is amended as follows:

“(1) With a view to obtain a one-time fee, the help consumer submits an software for fee by August 31 of the present monetary 12 months and, relying on the exercise for which he’s making use of, attaches the related paperwork specified within the software to the SEU.”

§ 11. In Artwork. 53, para. 2 is amended as follows:

“(2) The applicant submits a single software for fee for all requested actions underneath Artwork. 4.”

§ 12. In Artwork. 54, para. 1, merchandise 4, the phrase “offered” is changed by “specified”, and after the phrases “by the consumer” is added “within the software for help”.

§ 13. In Artwork. 59, para. 1, merchandise 3, after the phrases “doesn’t stop” is added “or modifications the topic of”.

§ 14. Article 62 is amended as follows:

“Artwork. 62. (1) The beneficiary of the help, who acquired help, owes a return in keeping with the order of Artwork. 73 of the Regulation on Help to Agricultural Producers of quantities already paid along with the authorized curiosity thereon, when:

1. didn’t fulfill its legally established or contractual obligation underneath Artwork. 58 and 59;

2. submitted a declaration with false content material and/or a doc with false content material, a false or solid doc and/or artificially created circumstances for receiving monetary help, for extracting a profit opposite to the necessities of this regulation;

3. has acquired monetary help from one other supply for the actions and property financed underneath the interventions underneath Artwork. 4.

(2) Within the instances underneath para. 1, merchandise 1, the consumer of the help who acquired help owes the return of the monetary help in an quantity proportional to the length of non-fulfilment of the duty.

(3) The interval of default underneath para. 2 is decided from the second of receiving the monetary help till the violation is established.

(4) The quantity due is calculated on a month-to-month foundation, within the quantity of 1/36 of the entire quantity of the monetary help paid.

(5) Within the instances underneath para. 1, gadgets 2 and three, the help consumer who acquired help owes the return of your complete quantity of economic help.”

§ 15. § 2a is created in transitional and closing provisions:

§ 2a. For the monetary 12 months 2024, for candidates for help with signed contracts pursuant to Artwork. 48, para. 6:

1. The interval for incurred bills underneath Artwork. 5, merchandise 2 is from September 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.

2. The deadline for submitting purposes for fee underneath Artwork. 52, para. 1 is till 30 September 2024.’

§ 16. In Appendix No. 1 to Artwork. 9, para. 1, in merchandise IV. “Investments in tangible and intangible property”, merchandise 19 “Safety and video surveillance system”, the next amendments and additions are made:

1. In the principle textual content, after the phrase “cameras”, “connecting cable” is added.

2. Letter “g” is amended as follows:

“g) cameras, together with Wi-Fi.”

FINAL PROVISION

§ 17. The Ordinance enters into pressure on the day of its promulgation within the State Gazette.

GEORGI TAHOV, MD

Minister of Agriculture and Meals


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