This document provides information about funding opportunities for agricultural product processing, trade, and development projects in Greece. There is €120 million available in public funding. Proposals can request between €600,000 and €5,000,000 with grant rates from 40-75% (up to 90% for mergers). Applications will be accepted from May 16 to August 18, 2017. Certain regions qualify for higher subsidy rates of 50% or 75%. Eligible sectors include meat, dairy, eggs, flowers, seeds, and vinegar. Supported activities include new facility establishment and modernization or mergers. Eligible beneficiaries include small, medium and large enterprises. Eligible costs include construction, equipment, vehicles, certification, and intangible assets.

1. Action 4.2.1
«Processing, trade and/or development of agricultural products with final
product within the Annex Ι of the Treaty of the Operation of the European
Union (agricultural product)»
MAY 2017

2. Introduction
• Amount of available public funding budget: € 120 million
• Minimum requested Proposal Budget: € 600,000
• Maximum requested Proposal Budget: € 5,000,000
• Grant rates: from 40% to 75% (additional 20% in case of merger of production
organizations, maximum 90%)
The submission of application files starts on 16 May 2017 and ends on
18 August 2017 at 15:00.

3. Subsidizing rates
Regions of the article 59§3a (except of the smaller Aegean islands) & 59§3b reg. 1305/2013
WESTERN GREECE, THESSALY, EPIRUS, CENTRAL MACEDONIA,
EASTERN MAKEDONIA - THRACE, IONIAN ISLANDS, PELOPONNESE,
CRETE
50%
Regions of the article 59§3a reg. 1305/2013 (Small Aegean islands as defined in reg. 229/2013)
SMALL AEGEAN ISLANDS (NORTH AEGEAN, SOUTH AEGEAN)
75%
Regions of the article 59§3c & 59§3d reg. 1305/2013
ATTICA, CENTRAL GREECE, WESTERN MACEDONIA
40%
Rates are increased by 20 percentage points (and up to 90%) in the
case of investments linked to mergers of production organizations.

4. Eligible Sectors
a)Meat - poultry - rabbits.
b) Milk.
c) Eggs.
d) Sericulture - beekeeping - snail farming - various animals.
e) Pet food.
f) Cereals.
g) Oil products (excluding oil mill foundations).
h) Wine.
i) Fruit and vegetables, hernia, nuts.
j) Flowers (for example: standardization and flower trade).
k) Pharmaceutical and Aromatic Plants.
l) Seeds & Propagating Material.
m) Vinegar (for example: vinegar production from wine, fruit and other agricultural raw materials).

5. Within the framework of the Action, eligible for support are activities about the unit establishment and modernization, with or without relocation, as well as
unit merger activities under the following conditions / exceptions:
a) The investment involves the production of products of the eligible sectors by exploiting the raw material of the eligible sectors.
b) The establishment of olive presses is not eligible.
c) Establishment of units where animals are slaughtered is eligible only for island regions and an annual capacity of up to 400 tones of meat.
d) Establishment of poultry abbatoirs is only eligible in mountain or island areas.
e) Unit upgrading is considered the replacement and / or completion of mechanical equipment such as capacity expansion (if covered by the necessary authorizations
each time) of active and inactive units. Exceptionally, in the case of mill units which have ceased operations, they may get modernized under this action and re-operate
with the same activity and capacity.
f) In the case of modernization without an increase in capacity of more than 20%, of inorganic supplementary feed plants for enterprises, the units should be registered /
approved in accordance with 340668/ 26-11-2008 (ΦΕΚ 2422 Β’) ΚΥΑ.
g) The relocations and mergers of units are necessarily accompanied by their modernization.
Eligible Actions
Eligible Beneficiaries
• Very small, small, medium sized enterprises as well as large enterprises.
• Companies operating in the form of society, civil law firm and consortium are
excluded.

6. Eligible Costs
1. Construction or improvement of building infrastructure (land extension is eligible only if it does not exceed 10% of
the total cost of the investment)
2. Designing the surrounding area to serve the needs of the unit.
3. Purchase, transport and installation of equipment (equipment for energy generation from renewable sources, for
water saving, waste treatment and energy saving is not strengthened as a single action but as a part of total production
investment)
4. Purchase of new vehicles, particularly: i. Vehicles for the carriage of products of special type and ii. Means of internal
transportation that covers the needs of the investment (such as forklift, lifting trucks).
5. Acquiring quality assurance certificates.
6. Expenditure on business equipment (purchase of fax machines, telephone facilities, intercommunication networks,
computers and peripheral machines, photocopiers, facilities’ security systems, facilities’ fire protection systems)
7. General costs associated with unit facilities and equipment (architect fees, engineer and consultant fees, fees for
advice on environmental and economic sustainability, including costs for feasibility studies)
8. Intangible costs (software acquisition or development and diploma acquisitions for patents, licenses, intellectual property
rights, trademarks, creation of a product identifiable signal (label), market research to shape the image of the product)