Apply Now: Support for Simple Programmes

Deadline: 23-Apr-25

The European Commission is pleased to announce applications to enhance the competitiveness and consumption of Union agri-food products, raise their profile and increase their market share in the targeted countries.

Objectives

• The objectives of these programmes shall comply with the general and specific objectives set out and the aims listed in Articles 2 and 3, respectively, of Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014 highlighting in particular the specific features of agricultural production methods in the Union, particularly in terms of food safety, traceability, authenticity, labelling, nutritional and health aspects, animal welfare, respect for the environment and sustainability (including climate benefits such as the greenhouse gas emissions reduction and/or increase in carbon removals), and the characteristics of agricultural and food products, particularly in terms of their quality, taste, diversity or traditions.

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 87 000 000.
• Amount: EUR 9 300 000
• Projects should have a minimum duration of 12 and a maximum duration of 36 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • be established in an EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• be eligible organisations or bodies as referred to in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014:
  • trade or inter-trade organisations, established in a Member State and representative of the sector or sectors concerned in that Member State, and in particular the interbranch organisations as referred to in Article 157 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and groups as defined in point 2 of paragraph 1 of Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, provided that they are representative for the name protected under the latter Regulation which is covered by that programme
  • producer organisations or associations of producer organisations, as referred to in Articles 152 and 156 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 that have been recognised by a Member State or
  • agri-food sector bodies the objective and activity of which is to provide information on, and to promote agricultural products and which have been entrusted, by the Member State concerned, with a clearly defined public service mission in this area; those bodies must have been legally established in the Member State in question at least two years prior to the date of the call for proposals referred to in Article 8(2).

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