Declaration of agricultural land and vineyard census
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The declaration of agricultural land and the vineyard census serve as a basis for farmers and winegrowers to:
- obtain certain aids; and
- provide data for the calculation of their social security contributions.
Both requests are made through the same administrative procedure. This online assistant (see under 'Online services and forms') is common to both agriculture and viticulture and concerns a process in which both alphanumeric and geographical data are recorded. The data collected concerns in particular:
- agricultural and vineyard parcels;
- non-productive areas and ecological focus areas in the framework of the enhanced and social conditionality, the eco-schemes and the Landscape management program (prime à l’entretien du paysage et de l’espace naturel);
- animal livestock;
- list of claimed aids.
Who is concerned
This concerns farmers and winegrowers who:
- wish to receive one or more aids in relation to these declarations;
- must provide detailed data on their means of production used to calculate the economic size of their farm for the purpose of calculating their social security contribution;
- produce grapes for the production of wine and crémant in the framework of the protected designation of origin 'AOP – Moselle luxembourgeoise'.
Prerequisites
The producer must be registered as a potential claimant in the database of the paying agency at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Viticulture.
To do so, applicants must:
- fulfil the requirements of an active farmer (see explanations on the Agriculture portal, in German and French only);
- already have filed a declaration of agricultural land or a vineyard census the previous year, and therefore already appear on the list of recipients in the online procedure.
Farmers and winegrowers who have not received the communication about the use of the form (including activation codes) must contact the Rural Economy Department (SER) - Direct Payments Division (Division des paiements directs du Service d’économie rurale).
The Rural Economy Department will then decide how to process their request.
In addition to these basic conditions, the claimant must fulfil certain specific requirements in order to benefit from a given aid.
These conditions are set out in the various information pages available on the Agriculture portal (available in German and French).
Deadlines
In order to benefit from the full rate of aid, claimants must submit their declaration by 15 April 2024 at the latest.
Beyond this date, the amounts of the aid paid in connection with the declaration of agricultural land and the vineyard census are reduced in proportion to the delay.
Declarations submitted after 10 May 2024 are not accepted.
The submission date taken into account is the date of transmission of the procedure in MyGuichet.lu (status 'sent'), and not the date of finalisation of the procedure (status 'ready').
How to proceed
Components of the declaration
The online assistant includes all sections concerning the declaration of agricultural land and the vineyard census. These parts are activated by a corresponding selection made by the claimant in the task menu.
Carrying out the procedure online
As the procedure includes personal data, it can only be accessed through a certified business eSpace.
Certification requires the entry of an activation code. This code links the personal data contained in the declaration with the LuxTrust certificate used to connect.
Each claimant initially receives 2 codes (personal code + proxy code) by post. Once entered, the code is valid for 6 years. Already activated codes shall not be entered once again by the claimant.
The finalisation, signing and transmission of the procedure are done according to the general terms and conditions of use of MyGuichet.lu (see the MyGuichet.lu help pages).
Some declarations require the simultaneous transmission of supporting documents. They can be attached to the procedure as PDF files.
Additional notifications obligation
Some notifications must be transmitted in a separate procedure. This concerns:
- farm structure survey. The submission of the farm structure survey via the corresponding procedure in MyGuichet.lu is mandatory for each claimant.
- notification of changes of personal or farm data managed in the farm register ('Fichier clients'). To this end, the claimant uses the procedure 'Farm register Agriculture and Viticulture' in MyGuichet.lu ('Claim for updating personal and farm data or for inactivation of an agricultural or wine growing business');
- notification of exploitation rights of FLIK parcels to be activated. These documents must be added as scanned attachments (PDF file) to the present procedure.
Paperless procedure
The preparation and submission of claims will take place exclusively online via the present procedure.
However, producers who do not claim for aids but wish to provide data e.g. for the purpose of calculation of the economic size of their holding (amongst others for the fixing of their social security contribution) or regarding their wine quotas may request a simplified paper form at:
- the Rural Economy Department:
- Anja Kihn (phone: 247 82 572 / email: anja.kihn@ser.etat.lu); and
- Antoinette Schummer (phone: 247 82 578 / email: antoinette.schummer@ser.etat.lu);
Further information on contact persons for the declaration of agricultural land and the vineyard census is also available on the Agriculture portal.
- the Viticulture Department of the Wine Institute (Section viticulture de l’Institut viti-vinicole), regarding vineyards (phone: 23 61 21 / email: info@ivv.etat.lu).
Help with the online assistant
The agriculture portal contains a specific page to help with the online assistant for the declaration of agricultural land and vineyard census.
It contains a wealth of information on how to use the assistant, including tutorials that show in detail the different features of the assistant and the actions to be taken to complete the procedure.
Online services and forms
Who to contact
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Rural Economy Department (SER) Direct Payments Division - Declaration of agricultural land and vineyard census
- Address:
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115, rue de Hollerich
L-1741
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
B.P. 2102, L-1021 Luxembourg
- Phone:
- (+352) 247 82 590
- Fax:
- (+352) 49 16 19
- Email address:
- flaechenantrag@ser.etat.lu
Related procedures and links
Procedures
Links
Further information
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Beihilfen
auf dem Landwirtschaftsportal
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Flächenantrag - Weinbaukarteierhebung - Strukturerhebung
auf dem Landwirtschaftsportal
