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EU - School program for fruit, vegetables and milk - apply for funding

Service Description

Obesity and unhealthy nutrition are becoming an ever greater challenge worldwide. The European Union wants to take countermeasures at an early stage and is therefore starting with children and young people: The EU Schools Program is designed to make fruit and vegetables and fresh milk palatable to children and young people and to promote healthier eating.

Thuringia offers the opportunity for as many children as possible in the state's kindergartens, elementary schools and special schools to eat an extra portion of fresh fruit and vegetables on a regular basis. In this way, children can be taught that fruit and vegetables are not only healthy, but also taste good. The children should get to know and taste regional and seasonal fruits and vegetables as well as milk, also in organic quality.

Combined with further educational measures in the schools, our children should learn more about the colorful variety of fruits and vegetables. In the classroom, in the school garden and during visits to farms, children should be taught where our food comes from, how it is produced and what production effort is involved. In daycare centers, nutrition and consumer education topics related to milk should be included in the pedagogical concept and implemented in everyday life. Milk parties are a good way of doing this.

Process flow

1. admission / participation procedure

  • Prior to the first delivery, school authorities (program component fruit) as well as educational institutions and milk suppliers (program component milk) must submit an application for admission to the EU School Program.
  • The competent authority decides on the application and issues an admission notice/participation notice. The admission of school authorities and milk suppliers (grantees) is valid for several school years. Educational institutions must apply to participate per school year.
  • The fruit suppliers conclude a supply agreement with the school authorities and the milk suppliers with the educational institutions before the first delivery.

2. approval procedure

Based on the supply agreement for the respective school year, the recipients subsequently submit an application for approval of a grant under the EU School Program. The responsible authority decides on the application and issues a notice of approval. Only then may the participating schools and children's facilities be supplied.

3. payment procedure

After delivery and in compliance with the specified accounting periods, the grant recipients shall submit the application for disbursement. Application deadlines must be observed when applying for disbursement. The application for disbursement must be accompanied by proof of delivery and, in the case of the fruit program component, by receipted invoices for delivery. The responsible authority examines the applications for payment and decides by means of a notice and pays the approved subsidies to the recipients.

Who should I contact?

Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas
Sömmerda Field Office
Department 52


Uhlandstrasse 3
99610 Sömmerda

Phone: +49 (361) 574013-306 (fruit)
Phone: +49 (361) 574013-108 (milk)
Fax: +49 (361) 574013-099

Competent authority

Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas
Sömmerda Field Office
Department 52


Uhlandstrasse 3
99610 Sömmerda

Phone: +49 (361) 574013-306 (fruit)
Phone: +49 (361) 574013-108 (milk)
Fax: +49 (361) 574013-099

Requirements

  • Grantees must be approved at the time of the first delivery. In the milk program component, the educational institution must additionally have been selected for the milk program component at the time of the first delivery (confirmation of participation).
  • Prior to the first delivery, a valid delivery agreement must be concluded. This must be submitted to the authority.
  • A supply to the participating educational institution must be guaranteed for a minimum period of six months per school year.
  • The distribution of fruit, vegetables and milk must comply with the minimum portion sizes that each registered child must receive and the produce requirements. Only fresh and unprocessed fruits and vegetables or drinking milk without additives are eligible. Processed products or products with added sugar, fat, salt or sweeteners are not eligible.

Which documents are required?

Admission procedure

  • Form-bound application for admission for applicants
  • Form-bound application for participation for educational institutions (program component milk)

Approval procedure

  • Form-bound funding application
  • Attachments to the grant application (accompanying educational measure):
    • a description of the project
    • Cost calculation incl. three offers
    • Photo (in the case of construction measures, documentation of the actual condition)
    • Proof of ownership/tenancy/lease agreement (for investment measures)

Disbursement procedure

  • Form-related application for disbursement
  • Attachments to the application for disbursement:
    • the completed proof of delivery, countersigned by the educational institution
    • Material report
    • Expenditure overviews
    • Invoices and proof of payment in original and copy (only for program component fruit)

What are the fees?

If applicable, enter the amount of the funding

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Payment of aid within three months after submission of complete payment applications.

  • Applications for the milk part of the program are open from 01. April for the following school year.
  • Applications for the fruit and vegetable program component must be submitted by May 1. for the following school year.

Grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis as long as sufficient budget funds are available.

Legal basis

Applications / forms

The competent authority shall decide on participation in the school program at its own discretion.

An appeal against the decisions of the authority may be lodged within one month of notification. The appeal must be filed with the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas (TLLLR), P.O. Box 100 262, 07702 Jena or Naumburger Str. 98, 07743 Jena.

Appeal

Promoting the supply of fruit and vegetables to schoolchildren

(Program Component Fruit)

  • Approval application
  • Application for approval/amendment
  • Attachments to the change request
  • Disbursement application
  • Proof of delivery as an attachment to the application for payment
  • Proof of use

Promotion of the supply of milk to educational institutions

(Program component milk)

  • Application for approval as school milk supplier (milk suppliers)
  • Application for participation in the school milk program (educational institutions)
  • Application for funding
  • Proof of educational measures carried out

What else should I know?

  • Leaflet on the supply of fruit and vegetables to pupils (PDFDocument)
  • Leaflet on the promotion of accompanying pedagogical measures

Author

Thuringian Ministry for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection (TMMJV)

Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture (TMIL)

The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.

Technically approved by

Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas, Department 52 - Area and project-related payments

Professionally released on

29.12.2020

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

Competent Authority

Thüringer Landesamt für Landwirtschaft und Ländlichen Raum (TLLLR) - Referat 52 - Flächen- und Projektbezogene Zahlungen

Address
Uhlandstraße 3
99610 Sömmerda
Telephone
0361 574013-001
Fax
0361 574013-099
E-Mail
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