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Macedonia and Thessaly the benefited Regions from the granting of Planting Permits

The regime of Planting Permits has been applied throughout the EU since 1.1.2016 and provides for the increase of vineyard areas, the maximum of 1% per year, on the existing vineyard areas of each Member State.

In our country, in the first years of implementation of the measure, the granting of Planting Permits was carried out at the National Level, while today the granting of new Planting Permits is carried out at the level of the Regions, some of which form a small group of Regions (Attica + Central Greece and Ionia Islands + N. Aegean + S. Aegean + Crete + Epirus), while the remaining Regions are treated as autonomous regions. The distinction of the Regions is related to the differentiation of the priority criteria in the granting of Permits, criteria that are activated when the annual requests for the granting of Planting Permits exceed 1% of the annual planted national areas.

The most important priority criterion, which gives the highest percentage (35%) is that of the expansion of the size of the existing vineyards and is valid from the beginning of the implementation of the measure. The term of validity of the Planting Permits system expires in 2045, as decided with the passing of the CAP 2023-2027.

Since 2016, 43,383.89 new Planting Permits have been granted in our country, but the percentage of actual plantings (apart from 2016, which amounted to approximately 61%) remains unknown to this day, taking into account that the obligation to plant the vineyard may carried out up to three years after the Planting Permit was granted (with the exception of pandemic years).

According to the processing of data on Planting Permits, in which KEOSOE was the first Region to grant Planting Permits (as shown in the relevant table), the Region of Peloponnese is ranked with allocations of 6,855.20 acres for the period 2016-2022, it must be emphasized however, that the Peloponnese Region is ranked first, in terms of the existing area of ​​vineyards in the whole of Greece.

Based on the regional distribution of Planting Permits, as a distribution model, which means that each Region receives Planting Permits equal to 1% of the area planted with vines in that area (absolutely proportional criterion, for all Regions), it is observed that, according series the Regions of Western Macedonia, Thessaly, North Macedonia-Thrace and Central. of Macedonia, have received Planting Permits, significantly increased in area compared to 1% of the already planted areas with vines on them.

On the contrary, in Attica, the Ionian Islands, Western Greece, the North and South Aegean and the Peloponnese, the granted Planting Permits fall short of 1% of the already planted areas with vineyards, as shown in the table below.

It should be pointed out that in several Regions that show a reduced allocation of land, this is due to requests that the requested area of ​​new plantings is smaller than what corresponds to the Region, based on 1% of the planted area with vines.

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