ADVISORY SERVICE IN RURAL ECONOMY

Both natural and legal persons can receive a subsidized advisory service worth 3,000 euros per year. The subsidy rate is 90% or 2699.82 euros and the co-payment rate is 10% or 299.98 euros + vat.

Rural economy advisory service grant for the period 2023-2027 includes following according to the professional certificate of a rural economy consultant:

  • Advisory on the creation and growth of a company, organization of business forms and economic activities, starting a business

  • Calculation of production volumes, analysis, planning

  • Calculation of resource needs, planning and analysis of resources

  • Risk analysis and risk mitigation planning

  • Analysis and planning of production trends

  • Feasibility analysis

  • Business environment and factors affecting it, economic environment of various activities

  • Strategic management, short- and long-term planning

  • Investment profitability and planning

  • Funding options

  • Possibilities of diversification of the company, general directions of development of the rural economy

  • Analysis of financial indicators

  • The requirements of legislation regulating

  • Primary production and processing

  • SWOT

  • Analysis and preparation of the strategy, preparation of the company's development plan

  • etc

According to the regulation: "Support shall be provided to the service provider recommended in paragraph 1, which is aimed at the production of agricultural products, the processing of agricultural products, the maintenance of agricultural and forest land, including the maintenance of the agricultural and forestry system and the processing of non-agricultural products from agricultural products."

Advisory services provided in the field of forestry constitute state aid pursuant to Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2472 and the final beneficiary must submit an aid application referred to in Article 6(2) to the advisory service provider before receiving the service. 

Advisory services provided in the field of processing of agricultural products for a product that is not an agricultural product covered by Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union constitute de minimis aid. The de minimis aid (hereinafter referred to as DEI) rate for the period 2023-2027 is EUR 300,000 over three years (1,095 days). If the final beneficiary has reached the maximum amount of the VTA rate, it is possible to continue to receive the advisory service provided that the enterprise is a small or medium-sized enterprise and an application for assistance pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 has been submitted to the advisory service provider before receiving the service. If the support is granted as state aid due to exceeding the VTA rate, the support rate is reduced from 90% to 50%.

More information on state aid and de minimis aid (including the free balance check) is available on the website of the Ministry of Finance.