This year, around 700 chamber village economists will help with the submission of unified applications for free

This year’s submission period for unified applications began on April 7 and will last until June 10 due to the Pentecost weekend. In accordance with the new regulations introduced in 2023, the previously usual sanction of a 1 percent reduction in support per working day will not be applied this year either. Unified applications submitted after June 10, 2025 will be rejected without any substantive examination.

During this year’s application submission, support can be requested for 49 support titles and measures and data provision obligations can be fulfilled

The single application can still be submitted exclusively electronically, on the online interface of the Hungarian State Treasury (MÁK). From 2023, fully electronic communication has become mandatory for the single application and its titles: from the submission of the application to the submission of any appeals or objections, documents can only be submitted electronically. MÁK also sends decisions, documents, and minutes electronically, to the client’s or his/her authorized representative’s customer portal. The Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan and the relevant domestic regulations and calls for tenders have changed this year as well, for example, the system of conditionality and production-linked support rules and the Agro-ecological Program (AÖP) have been amended. All of these also affect the submission of single applications.

One of the most important changes is that, at the initiative of the National Agricultural Council, the obligation to designate non-productive areas, including fallow areas, will be abolished from 2025. This practice will be transferred to the voluntary commitments of the AÖP

The requirement to preserve protected landscape elements and the prohibition of cutting down, pruning and other mutilation of hedges and trees for non-agricultural production purposes during the breeding and rearing period will remain in force. The AÖP, which was introduced in 2023 and provides additional support, will be expanded with the 2-point practices of “Advanced grazing with native livestock” and “Advanced designation of non-productive landscape elements and areas”. The attachment of a georeferenced photograph will be mandatory for more crops than before: for plants grown using technology under the cultivation equipment, and for certain vegetable crops, if production-related support is requested for them. If the practice of “grazing with native animals” is chosen, the grazing log can be replaced by taking a mobile Farmer photo, thus reducing administration. The regulation regarding solid urea fertilizer has also been changed: if used together with a urease inhibitor, it does not have to be incorporated into the soil immediately.

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