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Service Description
The Thuringian Animal Welfare Promotion Guideline is the Thuringian program to support livestock farmers in voluntarily introducing or maintaining particularly animal-friendly husbandry practices.
The adaptation of production structures to further increasing requirements with regard to animal welfare, in connection with sustainable agricultural production in livestock farming, is associated with considerable additional costs.
This grant is intended to compensate, at least proportionally, for ongoing additional costs associated with the management of certain husbandry methods. The prerequisite is animal-friendly husbandry methods that go beyond the legally prescribed standards of animal welfare and are included in the subsidy catalog of this guideline according to number 2.
The measures are in detail:
Measure group cattle
Measure R 1: Summer grazing of cattle
R 11 Support level 1/ grazing 4 months
R 12 Promotion stage 2/ grazing 5 months
Measure group pigs
Measure S 1: Bedding pigs (all production stages)
Measure S 2: Animal welfare sow management
S 21 D Support level 1/ mating area
S 21 A Support level 1/ Farrowing area
S 21 W Conveyor stage 1/ Waiting area
S 22 D Conveyor stage 2 / mating area
S 22 A Conveyor stage 2/ farrowing area
S 22 W Conveyor level 2/ Waiting area
S 23 D Conveyor level 3 / mating area
S 23 A Conveyor stage 3/ farrowing area
S 23 W Promotion level 3/ waiting area
Measure S 3: Animal welfare piglet rearing and fattening
S 31 Promotion level 1
S 32 Promotion level 2
S 33 Promotion stage 3
Measure S 4: Roughage (all production stages)
Measure Group Genetic Resources
Measure G: Native livestock breeds threatened with extinction
Amount of funding requested
The grant is awarded as project funding by way of fixed-amount financing in the form of a non-repayable annual grant. The amount of the grant is generally based on the size of the commitment in livestock units (LU) or animal places. It is calculated on the basis of the number of animals or animal places that are demonstrably kept in the commitment period in accordance with the grant requirements.
Further information can be found in the Thuringian Animal Welfare Funding Guideline. This will be made available after approval of the GAP strategic plan.
Who should I contact?
Responsible for the Thuringian Animal Welfare Promotion Guidelines are the agricultural promotion centers (branches) of the State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas.
Requirements
Formal application, which is expected to be submitted online via the PORTIA portal from autumn 2022.
As a general requirement, the recipient of the grant must undertake in the application to actively manage the farm itself and to keep or manage the animals and land to be included in accordance with the grant requirements set out in the grant catalog (Annex 2). Self-management is also deemed to exist in the case of boarding livestock.
The specific funding requirements are described in the funding catalog (Appendix 2) under the respective measure. During the five-year commitment period, the beneficiaries are obliged to implement the relevant mandatory basic requirements pursuant to Title VI Chapter I and Annex II of Regulation (EU) No. 1306/2013 (cross-compliance) and the other relevant requirements of national law throughout the farm, which are directly related to the eligibility requirements of the respective measure pursuant to Annex 6.
Which documents are required?
The application and thus the submission of the application for approval for the Thuringian Animal Welfare Promotion Guideline is expected to take place online in the PORTIA portal from fall 2022. Paper documents cannot be submitted.
Further evidence must be submitted digitally as a PDF.
For cattle: The current excerpt from the HIT with identification of the cattle participating in the subsidy to check the plausibility of the information on the animals and LUs applied for under point 3. Suckler cows are excluded from the subsidy.
For pigs: Overview of the capacities used on the farm (= Appendix 1 from leaflet) supplemented by QS farm overview/master data sheet with farm sketch and identification of the units to be subsidized to check the plausibility of the information on the animal places applied for.
What are the fees?
There are no fees to pay.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Applications for approval are expected to be submitted in October of the previous year in which the commitment period begins.
The application for payment for the current commitment year must be submitted to the granting authority by May 15 (cut-off date).
Processing duration
The application for the Thuringian Animal Welfare Promotion Guideline must be submitted in the year prior to the five-year commitment period.
The application is only to be submitted in digital form and is expected to be submitted online in the PORTIA application portal using the application software provided from autumn 2022.
The application for disbursement must be submitted to the granting authority by May 15 (cut-off date) for the current commitment year. The application for disbursement is to be submitted digitally in the PORTIA application portal in connection with the collective application, probably starting in May 2023.
The grant will be paid out annually after the end of the respective commitment period by June 30 of the following calendar year at the latest.
Legal basis
Thuringian animal welfare is regulated in many legal sources in EU, federal and state law and can be found in the application documents.
What else should I know?
If you have any questions, please contact the agricultural support centers or the branches of the State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas (TLLLR)
Professionally released on
28.07.2022
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
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