DIRECT PAYMENTS

Direct Payments represent the largest share of payouts determined for subsidies in agricultural sector. They are provided in accordance with rules of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Direct Payments for the period of 2015-2020 are focused primarily on considerate access to the environment via Greening regime, generational demographic changes in the countryside through subsidies for young farmers and the support of sectors and/or regions facing particular difficulties or representing very important locations from an economic, social or environmental point of view. The applicant has to be an agricultural entrepreneur, active farmer and has to cultivate the agricultural land which is registered in LPIS register of agricultural land based on user relations – these are the main criteria for obtaining a subsidy.

Direct Payments include the following measures:

• SINGLE AREA PAYMENT SCHEME (SAPS)
• PAYMENT FOR YOUNG FARMERS
• PAYMENT FOR FARMERS OBSERVING THE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES (GREENING)
• VOLUNTARY COUPLED SUPPORT PAYMENTS:
  • Potato Starch Production
  • Ware Potato Production
  • Hops Production
  • Highly Labour-Intensive Fruit Production
  • Labour-Intensive Fruit Production
  • High Labour-Intensive Vegetable Production
  • Labour-Intensive Vegetable Production
  • Sugar Beet Production
  • Protein Crop Production
  • Veal Calf Breeding Production
  • Market-Oriented Dairy Cow Breeding Production
  • Ewe and/or Goat Breeding Production

• TRANSITIONAL NATIONAL AID