The Agency for Payments in Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development has announced a competition for grants for investments in the construction of unclassified local roads, for which it has allocated 173 million kuna. As announced by the agency on Thursday, this is the implementation of sub-measure 7.2. – implementation of operation type 7.2.2. “Investments in the construction of unclassified roads” from the Rural Development Program. Applications for support can be filled out and submitted in the AGRONET system of the Agency for Payments from November 4 to December 23 of this year.
The intensity of public support per project amounts to up to 100 percent of total eligible costs, and the support funds are provided from the budget of the European Union and the state budget of the Republic of Croatia. The EU participates with 85 percent share, while Croatia contributes 15 percent share. The maximum amount of public support per project is one million euros, in kuna equivalent, the Ministry states, adding that 173 million kuna is allocated for this first competition. Users of this sub-measure can be all units of local self-government, regardless of their size. The construction of an unclassified road can be carried out in settlements with a maximum of 5,000 inhabitants and must be in accordance with the strategic development program of the local self-government unit and the spatial plan.
– This is a very useful measure that will certainly contribute to rural development, as it does not only relate to the arrangement of the roadway of unclassified roads leading to agricultural areas but also to the construction of other parts of road infrastructure such as sidewalks, bicycle paths, and green areas, as well as public lighting and traffic signals that will certainly contribute to the safety of the rural population, said Minister of Agriculture Tomislav Tolušić.
