Co-financing of anti-hail systems

For co-financing of hail protection systems, you can submit a completed application form along with the accompanying documentation:

• In physical form — to the central office of the Rural Development Agency or the relevant regional office;
• Electronically — to the agency’s e-mail address: document@rda.gov.ge

For detailed information on the stages required for co-financing and the documentation to be submitted, see below.

Individuals and legal entities will be funded up to 30% of the cost of installing hail protection systems for grapevines, berry, stone-fruits, and seed orchards, and in the case of cooperatives with agricultural status, villages adjacent to the dividing line and high-mountain settlements - up to 40%, but not more than in accordance with the conditions specified in the Annex. Within the framework of the component, no more than 50 ha of hail protection systems will be funded by one beneficiary, and the maximum amount of co-financing shall not exceed 750,000 GEL.

In order to sign an agreement between the Agency and the potential beneficiary, the potential beneficiary must submit the following documents: "What should an invoice contain?"

• Completed application form;
• Extract from the registry of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entities (for legal entities);
• Copy of the identification document: For legal entities - of the director/responsible person; For physical persons/individual entrepreneurs - of the landowner and the responsible person;
• Document proving ownership of the land plot (extract from the public registry and cadastral map); In case of lease, the lease agreement must be submitted along with the extract. (The remaining lease period must be at least 10 years, and the lease agreement must be registered with the Public Registry of the National Agency);
• Invoices or contracts for the purchase of hail protection systems (in Georgian/officially notarized translation into Georgian). The invoice or contract must specify which agricultural crop the hail protection system is intended for;
• LEPL − Levan Samkharauli National Bureau of Forensic Expertise or a report issued by an auditor/audit firm registered in the State Register of Auditors/Audit (Audit) Firms, issued by the Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision Service, a state sub-agency institution within the system of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, determined by the Board of the Agency, on the compliance of the gardens on the land specified in the application with the conditions specified in the Gardens Component of this Program.
  
  Except for the case when a garden has been established on the land plot requested in the application with the Agency’s co-financing within the framework of the Gardens Component and the fulfillment of the purpose has been confirmed to the Agency three months prior to the submission of the application.
  
  In case of the existence of a vineyard - in order to confirm the fulfillment of the obligations stipulated by the contract, the beneficiary is obliged to submit a conclusion of the LEPL - Levan Samkharauli National Bureau of Forensic Expertise or a report issued by an auditor/audit firm registered in the State Register of Auditors/Audit (Audit) Firms, determined by the Agency's Board of Directors, produced by the Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision Service, a state sub-agency within the system of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, on the existence of a vineyard on the land covered by the application.
  
  Note: Information about the above-mentioned auditors and audit firms will be published later.
  
  
• Beneficiary's bank details.

In the case of installing a hail protection system, the potential beneficiary may transfer/deposit their co-participation amount in full or in part to the supplier's bank account before submitting the application to the agency and/or after submitting the application, but no more than 6 months in advance, which will be considered the beneficiary's co-participation after signing the contract.

The cost of installing anti-hail systems will be financed only after the beneficiary submits a conclusion from the LEPL - Levan Samkharauli National Bureau of Forensic Expertise or a report issued by an auditor/audit firm registered in the State Register of Auditors/Audit (Audit) Firms, issued by the Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision Service, a state sub-agency within the system of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, as determined by the Agency's Board of Directors, confirming the fulfillment of the purpose of installing anti-hail systems.

Note: Information about the above-mentioned auditors and audit firms will be published later.