FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN REGULATIONS

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 146.08

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURAL

VALUE CHAIN REGULATIONS

5th March, 2013

LEGAL NOTICE 99 of 2013.

The title of these regulations is the Financial Assistance to

Agricultural Value Chain Regulations.

For the purposes of these regulations and unless the

context otherwise requires

''actor'' means any natural or legal person involved in the

agricultural value chain;

''agricultural industry'' shall have the same meaning as given to it

in the Agricultural and Fishing Industries (Financial Assistance)

Act;

''agricultural value chain'' means the set of actors and activities

that bring a basic product of the agricultural industry to the final

consumer, where at each stage value is added to the product. An

agricultural value chain can involve processing, packaging,

storage, transport and distribution;

''Director'' means the Director responsible for Agriculture;

''farmer'' shall mean a farmer as defined in Council Regulation

(EC) 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common

organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for

certain agricultural products;

''Minister'' means the Minister responsible for Agriculture;

''scheme'' means the scheme as defined under regulation 4.

These regulations shall apply to agricultural value chains

that are identified by the Minister in the gazette.

(1) The Minister may establish schemes in accordance

with sub-regulation (2) for the purpose of providing financial

assistance to agricultural value chains which serve to increase the

value of products of the agricultural industry.

(2) The Minister shall make rules for the implementation of a

scheme. A scheme shall include the following provisions

(a) rationale for intervention;

(b) identification and description of the agricultural value

chain, including the identification of the actors and the

final products of that scheme;

(c) the objectives pursued by the scheme;

(d) the identification of the authority that shall be

administering the scheme;

(e) identification of the beneficiaries, which must in all

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN

cases include farmers;

(f) the financial intensity of the aid, indicating clearly the

values allocated to the beneficiaries and the method of

calculation;

(g) the conditions that need to be met by the different

actors including the standards of eligible finished

products, minimum clauses for contractual agreements

between actors, details of the records that need to be

kept by the different actors and any other obligations

that the actors must fulfill; and

(h) provisions for controls and penalties.

The Minister shall publish a notice on the Gazette

notifying that the scheme has been launched and indicating where

further information on the scheme can be found. The notice shall be

published at least one week prior to the commencement of the

The Minister may delegate to the Director any of the

powers, functions or duties of the Minister under these regulations.