Immediate opening of 2024 applications with a simplified procedure and pre-filling to start payments from February 28, 2025; unlocking payments of subsidized insurance for previous years, particularly for 2023 – about 50 million euros within 10 days. And then: by February 2025, payment decrees for subsidized insurance for plant production will be issued – about 150 million euros for the 2024 campaign; payment decrees for livestock and crop subsidized insurance – amounting to about 10 million euros, of which 6 million for crops and 4 million for livestock. For the first time, the poultry species – never paid before – will be included for an amount of about 1 million euros. By April 2025, about 8 million in livestock subsidized insurance and 3 million euros related to campaign structures, both related to the 2023 campaign, will be disbursed. Finally, within the framework of subsidized insurance for plant production, from May to December 2025, there will be a monthly issuance of payment decrees with a unit value of about 2 million – for a total of 16 million – to complete and close the 2015-2022 campaign (related to the old programming).
These are the commitments of Agea presented at the first meeting of the Task Force on risk management convened yesterday (January 27) at the indication of the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests, Francesco Lollobrigida.
Regarding the 2024 applications, the director of Agea, Fabio Vitale, proposed to the Task Force to simplify the procedures, activating the pre-filling of PGIR (individual risk management plans) through the acquisition of policies from the Condifesa system.
The procedure has been opened and is ready for application loading. A fundamental novelty: Agea itself, through policy data, will share the pre-filled application to speed up payments starting from February 28 and close the disbursement process of the 150 million planned in 2024.
In 2025, the Business File will be open all year round – another novelty introduced by Agea. In this way, once both the PGA (general insurance plan) and the standard values (the reference criteria of the insurance index of a specific crop) are defined, it will be possible, already by February, to start the entire operational procedure for the processing of the PGIR (risk management plan) and issue insurance policies. All this will allow Agea to pay by 2025, for the first time in the history of agricultural insurance, the related premiums to farmers.
Management, simplification, sharing: the Task Force has been characterized by this since its inception. The work has begun, and the schedule is tight. The next meeting is on Monday, February 3.