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Decree On Grants For Demonstration Projects On The Conservation And Sustainable Use Of Plant Genetic Resources For Agriculture And Food

Original Language Title: Bekendtgørelse om tilskud til demonstrationsprojekter om bevaring og bæredygtig udnyttelse af plantegenetiske ressourcer for jordbrug og fødevarer

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Content of the scheme

Chapter 2 Administration

Chapter 3 Eligible projects

Chapter 4 Conditions for grants

Chapter 5 Eligible Project Expense

Chapter 6 Amendment of the project and entry into commitments

Chapter 7 Calculation of grants

Chapter 8 Payment of grants

Chapter 9 Notify obligations

Chapter 10 Disposal and repayment of grants

Chapter 11 Force majeure

Chapter 12 Appeal access

Chapter 13 Penalty provisions

Chapter 14 Entry into force

Announcing on subsidies for demonstration projects on conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for land use and food

In accordance with section 3, cf. § 2, nr. 4 (c) (c) § 5, section 7 (4), 4, section 11, paragraph 1. 1, 2 and 4, section 12, and 13 (3). 1, in Law No 1. 316 of 31. March 2007 on rural development (rural rural areas) shall be adopted by the authority :

Chapter 1

Content of the scheme

§ 1. The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries may, within the framework of annual financial promises, offer commitments to the demonstration projects on conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for land use and food.

Paragraph 2. Commitments for grants can be made to museums, private companies, public companies, funds, associations, organisations, public institutions and municipal communities.

Chapter 2

Administration

Authorities and controls

§ 2. The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Food Business Decision shall take a decision after this notice.

§ 3. The Authority shall carry out checks in connection with the administration following this notice.

Paragraph 2. Food business shall be responsible for the physical checks and the subsequent accounting checks.

Paragraph 3. The plant directorate may be responsible for the physical checks and the subsequent accounting control, cf. Section 5 of the notice no. 124 of 26. This is February 2008 on the duties and powers of the Plant Agency.

Paragraph 4. The checks shall be obtained for the purpose of the checks provided by other authorities as necessary.

Applications for grants

§ 4. The application shall be submitted to the Food Industry on a specific application form, which is available when it comes to the Food Erstice or the Home Deviation by the Food Business.

Paragraph 2. In 2009, applications can be submitted from the sixth. February and shall be a food industry by the latest on the 24th. March, 2009. From 2010, applications can be submitted from the 15th. In August, the food industry shall be in the hands not later than 1. October of the same year, or in case of 1. October is a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, the second weekday (Saturday, not counting), following the following day.

Paragraph 3. In exceptional cases, the food industry may dispense with the requirements referred to in paragraph 1. 2 led apply periods.

Paragraph 4. The Food Industry shall sign on to the receipt and may, in connection with this, permit the implementation of the project.

Prioritizing and decision

§ 5. After the period of application of the application, the Food Decision shall decide on undertakings ' commitments or lashes.

Paragraph 2. Decisions shall be made on the basis of a priority of the applications based on an assessment of the overall expenditure of the project and the contribution of the project to the overall fulfilment of the purpose of the scheme, cf. Section 7 (2). 1, including the conservation of plant genetic resources at the farm level and the possibility of strengthening cooperation in the field. The Food Industry may use the priority to obtain external, professional evaluation of applications.

§ 6. If the application can be met, the Food Industry ' s undertaking shall be committed to grants.

Paragraph 2. Applications shall be granted in full or in part, with reference to the priority of the appropriation of the annual financial bill.

Paragraph 3. Applications which cannot be met by themselves as a result of the period of the application of the application period shall be transferred once to the second subsequent application. The applications submitted for a period of application shall be given priority on equal terms with other applications received during the application period.

Chapter 3

Eligible projects

§ 7. Offer may be granted to projects which may contribute to increasing the interest of plant genetic resources and increase the spread of legacy plant varieties suitable for environmentally friendly operation and food products, thereby contributing to conservation and sustainable production ; use of plant genetic resources for land use and food, including increasing the diversity of land use and to create the basis for the production of local food on the basis of locally adapted plant varieties.

Paragraph 2. The projects should aim to show, disseminate and disseminate the interest of conservation and the sustainable use of plant genetic resources in the field of land use, and the dissemination and dissemination activities must be directed towards the public. Each project must for one or more species and varieties of the plant material referred to in section 8, at least include :

1) demonstration of cultivation which can contribute to the assessment and demonstration of the suitability of the plantation material for ecological and other environmentally friendly cultivation and, in the case of multiannual vegetative plants, to establish duplicates of : existing clones, or

2) a demonstration of the use of the planned plant material for food, which may contribute to the assessment of the suitability of the plant material for human consumption.

Paragraph 3. The projects may include activities aimed at the dissemination and distribution of the planned plant material for use in the field of environmentally friendly operation. The projects may be based on preliminary research and pilot projects, but must not contain research or technological development.

§ 8. Plants that can be included in the projects include the following :

1) Cereals where the variety is not in commercial use, and where the variety is or may be registered in the North Gen.

2) The following multi-annual vegetative plants where the variety is not in commercial use and where the variety is or may be registered on the Pometet of the Bioscientific faction, the University of Copenhagen, or the Agricultural Science Factor, Aarhus, University (DJF) : Apples, bulbs, plums, plums, cherries, sourcherberries, walnut, hazelnut, hazelnut, raspberry, raspberries, ribs, blackberries, racks, horrors, horseradish, horseradish, horseradish, horseradish, horseradish, horseradish and strawberry.

3) Frog-formed vegetables in cabbage and root fruit, where the variety is not in commercial use and where the variety is or may be registered in the North Gen.

Paragraph 2. The Food Industry may accept projects of varieties of other plant species for foodstuffs other than those referred to in paragraph 1. 1 if :

1) the variety is not in commercial use,

2) the variety is or may be registered in the North Gen, the Pometet of the Bioscientific faction, the University of Copenhagen, or DJF-ÅU, and

3) The Food Industry assesses that the project may contribute significantly to the fulfilment of the scheme ' s purpose.

Chapter 4

Conditions for grants

Permissions from public authorities, etc.

§ 9. It is a condition of subsidies for a project ;

1) that the necessary authorisations from public authorities are obtained ;

2) to provide for the information requested by the Food and Food Industry, for the purposes of the proceedings,

3) no later than three years after the date of date, unless the Food Authority notifies a derogation from the date of the date of the application, however, no later than three years after the date of the date of the date of the date.

4) the following request shall make a written statement on the status of the project to the Food Industry,

5) the tiller holder shall submit final payment request and the project report in good time, cf. Section 20 (2). 2,

6) the payment requests made with the original accounting documents are kept available for at least five years from the date of the final payment of grants, and

7) the tilting shaver ensures that surveillance authorities have access to areas and activities covered by the project throughout the period in which the areas are used and where the activities are carried out in the project and, as far as areas are concerned, with multiannual vegetative propagated plants for up to five years after the end of the project.

Isolation of plants and more.

§ 10. It is a condition of subsidies for a project referred to in section 7 (2). 2, no. 1 that the plants covered by the project are grown without the use of fertilisers and plant protection products, with the exception of plant protection products authorized in organic land production in Denmark.

§ 11. Deposits to a project referred to in section 7 (3). 2, no. In addition, where the project includes multi-annual vegetative propagated plants, the following shall be subject to the following :

1) The multi-annual vegetative propagated plants must be placed on land owned by public institutions or museums or on areas which, in accordance with the opinion of the Food Safety Assessment, increase the likelihood of the long-term conservation of established plants.

2) In the event of termination of the cultivation of plants within a period of five years after completion of the project, the tilating shall prior to written notification to the DJF of the DJF and ensure the DJF-ÅU access to extract of the plants. If the plants die within a period of five years after the end of the project, the tilt shall be obliged to notify the DJF-ÅU without undue delay in writing to DJF-ÅU without undue delay.

§ 12. In the case of the case of the FDA, the obligation to provide information on the public cofinancing of the project and publicised information about the project on the webpage ' s home page or in relevant information shall be determined by the Food Business Authority. journals and journals.

Paragraph 2. Food business may lay down additional conditions for grants, including those relating to :

1) the obligation to provide, at the end of the project, to provide one or more institutions to be determined by the Food Industry and which may include DJF-ÅU, seed for cereals and seed from the project, unless they prove that they are satisfied that the case may be that : material will be used by the saver or by other than the said institutions for cultivation ;

2) see the projection report, cf. Section 20 (2). 2, shall include an assessment of the suitability of plant material covered by the project, for environmentally-friendly cultivation and food, and

3) the targeting of information and dissemination activities for land-users, undertakings and the like-in-service activities.

Signing of the defendant

§ 13. It is a condition of grants for a project that the applicant shall sign the defendant and submit the signed consent to the Food Business, to use digital signature on the submission of signed consent. The signed consent shall be in the hands of the Food Erstice within four weeks of the date of receipt of the defendant. In exceptional cases, the food industry may dispense from this deadline.

Chapter 5

Eligible Project Expense

§ 14. The eligible project expenditure may include :

1) expenditure on the purchase of goods and services, including consultancy and machine-station services ;

2) the cost of rent of equipment directly related to the project,

3) expenditure on the training and instruction of staff employed in the implementation of the project ;

4) the costs of information and publicity, including the preparation of information material and the organisation of open days for the display of cultivated areas and food covered by the project ;

5) value degradation during the period of implementation of the project on investment in equipment directly related to the project,

6) the costs of pay to staff employed by the project, including the salaries of the undertaking ' s own work, insofar as these costs are not normally financed by public institutions, public undertakings or municipal communities ;

7) expenditure on the execution of the project, including loss of income in the operation of farmed areas covered by the project, travel expenses, rental of premises, coordination expenditure ;

8) expenditure on the production of plant genetic resources,

9) expenditure on the distribution of plant genetic resources in the soil sector,

10) costs to the attestation of paid expenses ; and

11) project reporting costs, including the projection of the status of the project.

Paragraph 2. Expenditure after paragraph 1, no. 5 shall be eligible for the use of equipment in the project.

Paragraph 3. In accordance with the application of the request, the food industry may authorize expenditure other than those referred to in 1 listed as eligible. It is a condition of approval that the expenditure is of major importance for the implementation of the project.

§ 15. The grant-eligible project expenditure may not include :

1) the costs incurred by the saver have paid prior to the authority of the Food Business Authority to implement the project, cf. Section 4 (4). 4, however, where such authorisation is not provided, costs incurred by the saver shall have paid before the signing of the indictator,

2) expenditure relating to activities to which the saver is required to carry out in accordance with other legislation ;

3) expenditure on which aid is granted under other legislation ;

4) income losses and expenditure relating to the operation of areas and which may be taken into account in accordance with other legislation ;

5) financing and financial institution costs, unless these are due to the requirements of the forsading authority,

6) VAT unless this final beaker is finally worn by the saver shaver,

7) expenditure on research and technological development ; and

8) expenditure as a result of the rules of the Food Safety Notice on cross-compliance.

Chapter 6

Amendment of the project and entry into commitments

§ 16. Amendment of a project may be approved by the Authority on condition that the change in accordance with the project's purpose is in accordance with the project's objectives. The application for a change to a project must be approved by the Food Industry prior to the implementation of the amendment.

Paragraph 2. The amount of the amount may not be increased in connection with changes to the project.

§ 17. In accordance with the application of the Committee, the Food Authority may permit another person who, according to section 1, may be a grant of the grant shall be entered in a commitment to grants. The entry into the defendant shall enter into rights and obligations in accordance with the case.

Paragraph 2. Application for paragraph 1 1 shall be submitted in a special form to be obtained by way of a call to the Food Erstice or the Home Deviation of the Food Business.

Chapter 7

Calculation of grants

§ 18. Deposits may be granted up to 100%. for the eligible expenditure. Eligible expenditure may only include expenditure necessary for the implementation of the project. Commitment of grants can be a maximum amount of amount to be fixed by the Food Business Declaration on grants.

Chapter 8

Payment of grants

§ 19. The payment of grants shall be made on the basis of the account of the attributable to eligible expenses to be substantiated by the account of the subsidy. The payment of grants shall be made out in a special scheme and shall be accompanied by a auditor declaration issued by a state sautorised or registered auditor or from the Municipalities ' Revision. However, in the case of state institutions, the declaration shall be given by the project manager and the responsible management. The schema and form for declaration is obtained by contacting the Food Erstice or by the Food Business Homepage.

20. Deposits may be paid up to three installments.

Paragraph 2. Final payment request must be attached to a project report and received in Food Erstice within six months of completion of the project. In exceptional cases, a derogation from this period may be granted by the Food Authority.

Paragraph 3. The subsidy is transferred to the tilsagnshavers NemKonto.

Chapter 9

Notify obligations

§ 21. The onset of Tilsagnshaves shall, throughout the period when the conditions for grants are to be met, shall make a declaration to the Food Authority whether the conditions for grants are still to be met.

Paragraph 2. Undersea shall be granted throughout the period in which the conditions of grants are to be fulfilled without undue delay in writing to give the Food Erstice notice of circumstances which may result in a withdrawal of a commitment to grant or repayment of grants ; after paragraph 22.

Chapter 10

Disposal and repayment of grants

§ 22. Granltale of supplements will lapse if :

1) the tilt shall have provided false or misleading information or have kept information of significance for the decision of the case,

2) tillies shall override his duties according to section 11 (4) of the rural area. 2,

3) the tilt shall not comply with its notification obligation in accordance with section 21 ;

4) the project is not carried out in accordance with the approved application, or

5) the conditions for grants have not been met.

Paragraph 2. In the paragraphs in paragraph 1. 1 in the case of cases, the Food Decision shall decide on the refund of grants. The interest shall be added to the payment of the payment claims. The interest rate supplement shall be calculated from the time the payment is made of the refund for reimbursement, and in the interest rate of late payment, etc. (Interest) provided for the reference rate provided for in addition. However, the interest rates shall be at least 50 kr.

Chapter 11

Force majeure

-23. The following events as force majeure are recognized by the Food Business :

1) The Tilsagna's death.

2) The death of abducts.

3) The versagna's incapacity for longer.

4) Expropriation of such expropriation if such expropriation could not be foreseen at the time when the application is signed by the application.

5) A serious natural disaster, which is significantly affected areas or plants used in the project.

Paragraph 2. It is a condition of the recognition of force majeure, in specific cases, that the events impede the fulfilment of the obligations under which force majeure is invoked and that it did not undergo disproportionate circumstances ; ophes could have secured the opposition.

Paragraph 3. In exceptional cases, food business may recognise other events such as force majeure than those referred to in paragraph 1. 1.

§ 24. If the tilaves or his death wishes wish to claim force majeure, it shall be notified to the Food Erstice within 10 working days of the date on which the worshion or its death bo is able to do so. The notification shall be accompanied by adequate documentation material.

Chapter 12

Appeal access

§ 25. Decisions made by the Food Industry pursuant to this notice may be subject to the minister of food, agriculture and fisheries.

Paragraph 2. The complaint shall be submitted by the Food Industry, which shall be a food industry within four weeks of the receipt of the decision to which the complaint relates.

Paragraph 3. Food business may resume a case after a complaint has been lodged.

Chapter 13

Penalty provisions

SECTION 26. After the rural area, Clause 14 is punished by fine by the person who :

1) provide false or misleading information or information of the importance of decisions taken under the law or under the rules laid down by the law,

2) acts in breach of conditions laid down in a decision taken pursuant to the law or by virtue of the rules laid down by the law,

3) failing to provide the documentation and the information which it is obliged to provide under the law or by rules laid down by the law,

4) provide false or misleading information or information which the person concerned has a duty to give in accordance with the law or rules laid down by the law,

5) fail to grant access to the inspection authority to the establishment, etc. in accordance with the provisions of Article 11 of the law. 1, or

6) refrain from extraditing or submitting material or to provide the inspection authority as provided for in Article 11 (1) of the law. 2.

Paragraph 2. Companies can be imposed on companies, etc. (legal persons) punishable by the rules of the penal code 5. Chapter.

Chapter 14

Entry into force

§ 27. The announcement shall enter into force on the sixth. In February 2009.

Paragraph 2. The notice shall not apply to requests for entry into undertakings of undertakings which concern commitments under the notices under the rural areas programmes from before 2007 or in the notice of publication No 2. 249 of 14. April 2008, on subsidies for demonstration projects on conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for land use and food.

Paragraph 3. Publication no. 249 of 14. April 2008 is hereby repealed. Publication no. 249 of 14. However, April 2008 shall continue to apply to applications for grants received in Food Erstice before the entry into force of this Regulation, in the case of undertakings for grants under the abomentioned applications and for applications for entry into undertakings ; etc. relating to the said commitments.

Food business, the third. Feb 2009 Arentb, Josefsen / Steen Bonde