Requirements for enrollment in the register of agricultural holdings and the passive status of the Agricultural Holding

To implement and monitor agricultural policy, record agricultural holdings and family holdings, and conduct analytics and statistics for the needs of the Ministry responsible for agriculture affairs, the Directorate for Agricultural Payments maintains the Register of Agricultural Holdings.

Rulebook on registration in the Register of Agricultural Holdings, data changes and renewal of registration, electronic processing, as well as on conditions for passive status of agrarian holdings (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 25/2023, 110/2023, 3/2024 and 34/2024) (hereinafter: Rulebook) prescribes the manner and conditions of registration and management of the Register of Agricultural Holdings, the conditions and manner of changing data in the Register of Agricultural Holdings and renewal of registration, the method of storing data entered in the Register of Agricultural Holdings, the electronic form in which submissions and attachments are submitted, and to the parties, the decisions made in the procedures for registration in the Register of Agricultural Holdings, renewal of registration, changes to data entered in the Register of Agricultural Holdings and deletion from the Register of Agricultural Holdings, the way of providing support to the subjects of registration in the Register of Agricultural Holdings in connection with electronic processing, the application form for registering an agricultural holding in the Register of Agricultural Holdings, the application form for renewal of registration, attachment forms and documentation to be submitted with the application, as well as the conditions for the passive status of the agricultural holding. Continue reading Requirements for enrollment in the register of agricultural holdings and the passive status of the Agricultural Holding

Agricultural holdings

In terms of the Law on Incentives in Agriculture and Rural Development (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 10/2013, 142/2014, 103/2015 and 101/2016), an agricultural holding is a production unit where a business company, agricultural cooperative, institution or another legal entity, entrepreneur or farmer performs agricultural production.

A family agricultural holding is an agricultural holding where a natural person – a farmer, together with the members of his household (regardless of kinship) performs agricultural production.

A family agricultural holding can be:

  • commercial family agricultural holding (agricultural holding which is market-oriented and which can exercise the right to incentives under the conditions established by this law)
  • non-commercial family agricultural holding (agricultural holding that is not market-oriented).

The property of a non-commercial agricultural holding is determined during the registration or renewal of registration in the Register of Agricultural Holdings following the law governing agriculture. Continue reading Agricultural holdings