Producers should be able to choose a reference year for the transitional aid in Bulgaria

One of the EC's remarks addressed to Bulgaria in connection with the Strategic Plan for Agriculture concerns the topic of changing the reference year of the transitional national aid for tobacco. There are three consecutive years – 2016, 2017 and 2018. Important deadlines in July To a journalist's question a month ago, the Minister of Agriculture Ivan Ivanov commented that 2018 will most likely be chosen. Such were the attitudes of the industry. This turns out to be not quite the case, because the National Association of Tobacco Producers-2010 (NAT-2010) makes the following clarifications. After consultation with the members of the Association, as well as after a working meeting of the branch with state experts and directors of departmental directorates from the Ministry of Agriculture, the sector proposes that a methodology be prepared and sent to the EC. The idea is that it enables the tobacco producers entered in the register in the respective years to indicate a business year ...