І. What you need to know before you decide to register:
1. State social insurance for farmers shall be compulsory, as for other self-employed persons - sole traders, partners in commercial companies and persons exercising a liberal profession or trade.
2. Registered farmers - natural persons cannot receive unemployment benefits.
3. The regional directorates "Agriculture" shall provide a list of registered farmers - natural persons to the territorial subdivisions of the Employment Agency under the Minister of Labour and Social Policy on a monthly basis by the tenth of the month.
4. After the initial registration, within seven days, the natural person farmer shall be obliged to register with the Registry Agency in the BULSTAT register.
II. Benefits of registration as a farmer:
1.Only the farmers registered for the respective year may apply for financial support from State Fund "Agriculture" under national programmes and European funds in the field of agriculture and rural development.
2. Only registered farmers are entitled to receive free advice from the National Agricultural Advisory Service and its regional offices.
3. Only registered farmers may sell their produce in markets throughout the country without cash registers.
4. Farmers who are engaged only in agricultural activities enjoy preferential payment of social and health insurance and UPF /for those born after 1960/.
5. Farmers, natural persons, incl. those operating as sole traders, are not taxed on income from unprocessed plant and animal production, including beekeeping, bush farming, freshwater fish farming from artificial ponds and greenhouse production, excluding ornamental production.
III. Who can register as a farmer:
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The registration of persons as farmers is regulated by Regulation No. 3 of 29.01.1999 on the establishment and maintenance of a register of farmers and the amendments and supplements thereto, published in State Gazette No. 43 of 30.05.2017.
2. Legal entities, sole traders and natural persons over 18 years of age who manage agricultural land and/or carry out agricultural production shall be subject to registration.
3. Tobacco growers may register under Ordinance No 3/29.01.1999.
Documents required for registration
IV. Documents required for registration:
Questionnaires and questionnaire forms are provided free of charge by the Agriculture Department and municipal agriculture offices. They can also be downloaded from the website of the Directorate:
1. For legal entities:
1.1. 1.
1.2. 1.2;
2. For natural persons:
2.1. 2;
2.2. 2.1;
3. If they keep animals:
- Inventory of ear tag numbers and/or electronic identifiers in accordance with Article 7(2), inventory of animals not subject to identification or certified inventory by the official veterinarian controlling the livestock holding concerned.
4. If persons cultivate land:
4.1. Farmers who use agricultural land shall enter on the survey forms the properties they will use in the relevant marketing year and for which they have a registered legal basis for use under Article 41 of the Law on Agricultural Land. When entering in the questionnaire properties in the regulation, they shall also submit documents proving the legal basis for their use, or a certificate from the mayor of the locality where the property is located.
4.2. Farmers who carry out activities with primary fodder shall submit a Declaration in accordance with Annex 3.
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Instructions for completing the questionnaire, survey form and declaration:
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Questionnaire - the identification data of the farmer shall be filled in, and for documents submitted by an authorised person the data of the authorised person must be filled in. An accession number with the date of submission shall be entered in the top right-hand corner. In the box to be filled in by the Regional Directorate for Agriculture: date is the date of registration or certification, which is identical to the date entered on the registration card. It must be signed and stamped by an official of the Directorate General of Agriculture.The second page must show the EQATE of all the land for which forms have been submitted (Article 8(5) of Regulation No 3). The farmer's signature is compulsory.
2. Questionnaire forms:
2.1.Table 1 - fill in the numbers of the properties - 6 digits, when they are from the Map of Restored Property or 8-digit land with a valid cadastral map and cadastral registers/according to the identifier of the Agency of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre/ For yards, enter a fictitious number/e.g. 99991/, type of permanent use, form of management (for all forms of management there must be a legal basis for the use of the land for the current business year), area in ha, irrigated area in ha;
2.2. Table 2 - fill in the area per crop for the current marketing year - sown/planted and intentions to sow/plant. When validating the questionnaire form, the data and time of submission should be observed according to the agronomic deadlines for carrying out the measures..Total UAA (code 3299) should be less than or equal to Total (code 1999 from Table 1).A 'Z' should be inserted in the blank positions on the pages to avoid completion after validation.
Completion of Table 1 leads to mandatory completion of Table 2!
2.3. Table 3 - the number of animals by species is to be filled in.With the exception of the headings "Cattle and buffaloes-total" and "Rabbits-total", the number of animals in the headings "total" must correspond to the total number of animals in the headings "incl.
2.4. Table 4 - to be completed by the farmer on the basis of a computer printout from the information system of the farmer's premises and the animals kept there, certified by an official veterinarian if necessary.
Under Table 3, record the holding number.
Verifications of the questionnaire shall be carried out in accordance with Article 8, par. 7 of the Ordinance
The municipal agriculture office shall keep an entry register in accordance with Art. 7 of the Ordinance.
The entry number with the date should be written in the upper right corner of the Questionnaire.
The date of certification of the AF shall be the date entered in the designated boxes in the upper left-hand corner, after the signature and stamp of the OSH official on the last page of the form. The validity of the AF for submission to the MA 'Agriculture' is 20 days (Article 8(7) of Regulation No 3/1999).
3. Declaration of activities with primary feed - to be filled in by farmers who carry out activities with primary feed.
The declaration shall be completed by the farmer only if the production is for animal feed.
VI. What the registered farmer needs to know:
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In order to ascertain the accuracy of the data from the register, the officials of MA "Z" carry out on-the-spot checks of the registered farmers in accordance with the procedure established by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry.
2. Every registered farmer is obliged within one month to submit to the respective OSZ or MA "H" information on the changes that have occurred in the data declared at the time of registration or certification for the relevant year.
3. By 28 February each year, the farmer must provide up-to-date information on his activities by means of a questionnaire and one or more questionnaire forms. On the basis of this information, the Regional Directorate of Agriculture shall certify the farmers' questionnaire and registration card. Registration is valid until 28 February of the following marketing year.
