The deadline for submitting applications is from 19 April to 31 May 2024.

The line, aimed at active farmers, has a budget of two million euros.

The Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, through the Agricultural and Fisheries Guarantee Fund (FOGAIBA), announces a new call for applications for the 2024 financial year for subsidies for non-productive investments linked to the implementation of agri-environment and climate commitments, better known as the marges line. The announcement of this call has been published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands this Thursday, April 18, and has a budget of two million euros. The deadline for submitting applications begins today, 19 April, and ends on 31 May 2024. It should be noted that this aid has not been called since 2018.

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Agriculture

The need to conserve the environment in the Balearic Islands is one of the main lines of action for sustainable development. In this sense, “actions to combat erosion and protect biodiversity are especially necessary to halt environmental degradation and harmonise it with the profitability and competitiveness of Balearic agricultural production”, in the words of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Natural Environment, Joan Simonet. “This is a very interesting call for proposals for the sector,” added Simonet.

Among the requirements to qualify for this aid, beneficiaries must be owners or holders of a farm located on a plot of land that must be registered in the Inter-island Agricultural Register (RIA) before the proposed resolution is issued, and they must be active farmers. The obligations include: making and justifying the investments or activities within the established period; maintaining the requirements and conditions applicable to the farm and the beneficiary; and undertaking to maintain the investments made for at least five years from the date of payment of the aid, among others.

According to the call for applications, the eligible actions are: the rehabilitation and refurbishment of retaining walls of terraces to prevent erosion of the land they support and to allow cultivation; the rehabilitation and refurbishment of dry walls; the construction of livestock mesh fences with wooden posts, provided that the maximum distance between posts does not exceed 4 metres and the mesh frame has a solid/empty ratio of less than 1:50. In this regard, it should be remembered that only investments for the rehabilitation and conditioning of existing terraces or dry walls (i.e. not newly created) are eligible; that the actions are carried out traditionally; that the investments have agricultural purposes, and that they have not been started before the previous verification visit.

This call is co-financed by the PDR 2015-2022 funds and the government’s budget.

CAP 2024

The Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Natural Environment wishes to point out that the BOIB of 18 April has also published the announcement of the extension of the deadline for the single application (CAP 2024) and the PEPAC lines: aid for the compensatory payment for mountain areas, aid for the compensatory payment for areas with specific limitations and aid for the promotion of animal welfare certification in cattle farms. The deadline, which ended on 30 April, has been extended to 15 May. In addition, certain requirements have been modified in this new call for applications to make it more flexible.