Program 2023-2027

Local Participatory Development Strategy Leader 2023 - 2027

In the Leader approach, it is essential that local action groups, representing the interests of local communities, are responsible for designing and implementing participatory local development strategies, and can also carry out supplementary tasks delegated by the managing authority or paying agency. The strategies must be developed and supported under the responsibility of the managing authorities and intermediary bodies, which must be in charge of selecting operations that should receive support, or participate in such selection.

On June 2, 2022, the Agreement of the Board of Directors of the Galician Rural Development Agency of April 20, 2022, was published in the Official Journal of Galicia No. 105, approving the regulatory bases for the selection of candidate organizations to become collaborating entities in the Leader measure of Galicia for the 2023-2027 period, for the granting of aid aimed at capacity building and preparatory actions in support of designing future participatory local development strategies for the 2023-2027 programming period, co-financed by the EAFRD fund, and for the approval of local development strategies, as well as the corresponding call for the years 2022 and 2023 (procedure code MR701F).

Article 20 of the regulatory bases governing the call for selecting strategies and collaborating entities for the 2023-2027 programming period establishes that, for candidate organizations to become collaborating entities of the Leader measure of Galicia for the mentioned 2023-2027 period, they must have submitted the supporting documentation for the subsidy as provided in Article 31 of the cited regulatory bases. Specifically, Article 31.1 establishes the following deadlines and conditions:

Three months counted from the day following the notification of the resolution corresponding to the selection of the candidate organization, for the delivery of documents A, B, C, D, E, F, and G of Annex C of the regulatory bases. The maximum aid corresponding to expenses derived from actions carried out for the preparation of these documents will be 75% of the total aid granted, which will correspond to the amount budgeted for the 2022 annual period.
Two months counted from the day following the publication of the resolution provided for in Article 20.2 of these regulatory bases, for the delivery of documents H and I of Annex C of these regulatory bases. The maximum aid corresponding to expenses derived from actions carried out for the preparation of these documents will be 25% of the total aid granted, which will correspond to the amount planned for the 2023 annual period.

In this regard, it should be noted that, once the CAP Strategic Plan of Spain for the 2023-2027 programming period has been approved, and in order for the candidate organizations that have already been selected to provide the documentation corresponding to points H and I of Annex C of the regulatory bases, as well as the rules for managing the local development strategy (in particular, the management plan and applicable selection criteria), monitoring plan and financial plan of expected public expenditure, it is necessary to publish the resolution provided for in Article 20.2 of the regulatory bases, which must be issued by the General Director of the Galician Rural Development Agency by delegation of the Board of Directors. Therefore, this resolution, taking into account the content of the aforementioned strategic plan, aims to establish the conditions and objectives to ensure the proper execution of the Leader program for the 2023-2027 period, the rules for developing strategies, and the scoring criteria referring to the territories corresponding to the local development strategies that are selected.