Instructions and clarifications have been announced by AADE with a view to the proper submission of the Single Aid Application 2026.
The Directives concern producers (farmers) in order to declare their agricultural and livestock holdings and to pay the corresponding Community aid.
Agrotype contacted representatives of the KYDs, who stated that the new platform has technical advantages and disadvantages. It has good programs and alphanumeric data but has a problem with geospatial data. There are weaknesses in the digital mapping (Gis) of parcels and technical to work it is necessary to make the necessary amendments. The problems in the depiction of the parcels should be solved because that is where he will press the system to raise the rest of the data. They have not yet brought the application to the point where they should. The assessment is that it can be improved but it will take some time to do so. The forecast is that after 15 August the IACC platform will become «production»However, they consider that «utopia» the notices of the ADE that farmers with this application will manage to make the IACS statement themselves. They also appreciate that even accountants will not want to deal with the statement at this time because of its complexity. One more thing we've been told is that if a PCD is authorized by a producer and has accepted it, it has no codes to connect to the platform. myAGRO. As far as parcels are concerned, it complements the platform if they are privately owned or rented and checks are carried out by the AADE.
Instructions from ADE
For its part, AADE, in its circular, states that the single application per year is:
1. Declaration of the total agricultural holding, including, where appropriate,:
(a) the types, value and number of payment entitlements as set out after the intended convergence;
(b) all parcels of the holding, whether related to the basic income support scheme or other aid schemes or any other crop;
(c) the number of livestock by species and category of animal;
(d) any additional information necessary.
2. Application for aid for basic income support scheme
3. Application for aid for the scheme of redistribution of income
4. Application for supplementary income support for young farmers
5. Application for status of ecological schemes
6. Application for aid for the cotton special aid scheme,
7. Application for related income support for agriculture and livestock sectors
8. Application for support for sectoral programmes
9. Application for support for rural development measures, actions and interventions
10. Application for aid for the Small Aegean Islands. The Single Aid Application should contain all the information necessary for the aid received by the producer per parcel.
Beneficiaries participating in sectoral programmes are required to declare their participation in the relevant sectoral programme to the EEAS.
Farmers involved in rural development interventions shall also apply for payment in respect of them. For this purpose it is produced by the system and standard form for payment of the interventions when submitting the EAE.
During the submission of the EAE, the parcels and stables of the farmer are required to be digitised. Undigitated parcels and stables are considered not declared.
Documents by case and clarifications
1. Where the farmer declares a parcel within a protected archaeological site or zone, he shall submit a certificate – approval of the agricultural activity of the relevant Antiquities Institution.
2. Farmers shall submit a public pasture rent debt payment authorisation.
3. The legal persons and the Holy Monasteries where as principal administrator a newly introduced farmer or a young farmer are declared shall submit:
4. Where a legal person or Holy Monastery declares management through delegation of powers to a third person, a notarial proxy shall be submitted.
5. In the event of a request for voluntary return of Rights of Aid to Regional Stocks, a declaration by the farmer in accordance with Article 11 of Law 4937/2022 shall be submitted to the farmer.
6. In the event of a declaration of payment of a contribution in favour of ELGA, such authorisation shall be submitted.
7. For industrial cannabis, purchase tariffs and certified seed labels are submitted. By way of derogation, for hemp grown as a seed crop, i.e. seeded after 30 June each year, they shall be submitted by 1 September to the competent regional offices of the AAED.
8. If the field is completed «Not available due to force majeure», a documentation of force majeure shall be submitted.
9. If the field is completed «Compliance with requirements Reg. 848/2018 for organic farming» a certificate of compliance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 848/2018 shall be submitted in the context of the exemption from the obligation to comply with the standard ‘Reimbursement on arable land other than under-water crops’ (CAP7) in the context of eligibility.
10. In the event of verification, in addition to the documentation provided for and the following:
(a) Certificate of identity. In particular where a property type is declared «heritage» and species «if not available» or «mixed» and the details of the closest relatives in the documents submitted differ, an identity certificate or other corresponding public document or a copy of the two aspects of the police identity card of the nearest relative shall be submitted, in order to document its identification;
(b) any additional supporting documents requested by the auditors when carrying out the check, in particular a strong legal instrument for the controlled parcels.
In particular, the following shall apply to parcels:
(a) The farmer shall not attach a rental document. In cases where it leases land from owners who are not liable to submit an asset statement (Form E9), the lease information statement based on POL 1162/2018 shall be submitted.
(b) Where the farmer declares a parcel of land within areas in which No. 873/55993/20.05.2015 joint ministerial decision (level of information: DISTRIBUTIONS 2016-n-1, where n the year of application), is required to have submitted a final declaration of the property, complementing the National Land Register Number (CAEC) and a correlation of Property Identity Numbers (TAK) with the CAECs.
The ownership status is defined on the basis of the declaration as:
(b) Owner (I) where the area used, on the basis of the declared holding rate, is wholly owned.
bb) Rent (E), if the area used, on the basis of the declared holding rate, is wholly owned.
(b) Gross (M) if the area used, based on the declared holding rate, is partly owned.
Acceptable tax documents
For the aid year 2026 eligible tax documents are:
(a) invoices registered in myDATA;
(b) retail receipts up to 100€, if adopted by 31 December 2025,
(c) retail receipts, issued from 1 January 2026 to the dates indicated, shall be replaced by invoices. In order for invoices to be accepted, the number of proof replaced by the invoice and the number of the cash register (VAT) from which the proof replaced has been issued shall be indicated on the invoice,
(d) a digital consignment note, where a consignment note is provided for in the ministerial decisions concerned.
Penalties
1. When verifying the eligibility conditions, commitments and other obligations of the beneficiaries of Community aid, if cases of non-compliance are found by carrying out computerised cross-border, administrative and on-the-spot checks, effective, dissuasive and proportionate penalties shall be imposed.
2. The penalties shall apply to:
(a) in the case of non-compliance with the eligibility criteria, commitments or other obligations arising from the application of the rules of support to aid schemes based on the area as listed in Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.
(b) where the eligibility requirements associated with direct payments and payments are not met in the context of rural development interventions.
3. Administrative penalties shall be imposed in cases of:
(a) a declaration of an area greater than the actual area, as follows:
(aa) If the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined, i.e. «the smallest area resulting from all checks on administrative, on-the-spot and central computer cross-checks» for this intervention, the aid shall be calculated on the basis of the area determined, where such overrun is between 0% and 10%;
ab) where the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined for the intervention in question for the second consecutive year, the aid shall be calculated on the basis of the area determined, reduced by one and a half (1.5) at the time of the overrun found, where that overrun is between 0% and 10%.
(b) a declaration of an area greater than the actual area, as follows:
(b) If the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined for the intervention in question, the aid shall be calculated on the basis of the area determined, reduced by one and a half (1.5) times the overrun found, if that overrun is more than 10% and up to 30%;
(b) where the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined for the intervention in question for the second consecutive year, the aid shall be calculated on the basis of the area determined, reduced by twice as much as the overrun found, where that overrun is more than 10% and up to 30%.
(c) a declaration of an area greater than the actual area, as follows:
(a) If the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined for the intervention concerned, the aid shall be calculated on the basis of the area determined, reduced by twice as much as the excess found, if that overrun is more than 30% and up to 50%;
(c) where the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined for the intervention in question for the second year, no area aid shall be granted on the basis of the area, where that overrun is more than 30% and up to 50%;
(d) where the area declared for area aid exceeds the area determined for the intervention concerned, no area aid shall be granted on the basis of the area, where that overrun is greater than 50%.
4. When applying an intervention related to livestock, administrative penalties shall be imposed in cases of deviation between the declared and identified eligible animals or non-compliance with the eligibility criteria, commitments or other obligations arising from the non-compliance of the farmer, in the context of the related livestock aid, as follows:
(a) If a difference is found between declared and identified animals, the total amount of aid, which the farmer is entitled to under the related aid, shall be calculated by the animals identified if the cases of non-compliance do not concern more than three (3) animals. If it is found that the difference between declared and identified animals is up to three (3) animals for the second consecutive year, the amount to which the farmer is entitled shall be reduced by the percentage shown as follows: [Animals declared – identified Animals]/(Animals identified)
(b) if the difference between animals declared and identified is more than three (3) animals, the total amount of aid to which the farmer is entitled shall be reduced by the percentage obtained in accordance with c. (a) of paragraph 4 if the overrun does not exceed 10%. If the difference between declared and identified animals is more than three (3) animals for the second consecutive year, the aid shall be reduced by one and a half (1.5) times the overrun found, if the overrun does not exceed 10%,
(c) if the excess is between 10% and 30%, the aid shall be reduced by one and a half (1.5) at the time of the excess. If the excess is between 10% and 30% for the second consecutive year, the aid shall be reduced by twice as much as the excess found;
(d) if the excess is between 30% and 50%, the aid shall be reduced by twice as much as the excess found. If this percentage is between 30% and 50% for the second consecutive year, the farmer shall be excluded from the aid;
(e) if the rate exceeds 50 %, the farmer shall be excluded from granting aid.
