PNDR sub-measure 6.2 — who received EUR 50,000, who received 70,000, and why the difference matters

AFIR lists four situations. First: farmers or members of a rural agricultural household diversifying by setting up a non-agricultural activity for the first time. Second, framed as an exclusion: unauthorised natural persons are not eligible. Third: rural micro and small enterprises proposing non-agricultural activities they had not carried out until the date of application. Fourth: new rural micro and small enterprises, founded in the year the application was filed or at most 3 fiscal years old, that had not carried out any activity by the moment of submission.

The common thread across the four categories is the novelty of the activity. Sub-measure 6.2 did not finance the growth of an existing business but the start of one — which is why a firm already invoicing that type of service had no place on this line, however good the plan.

The complete document set published by AFIR is dated 15 November 2022 and contains the Applicant Guide for sM 6.2 – 2021, Annex 1 the application form, Annex 2 the business plan template, Annex 3 the financing contract, Annex 5 the sub-measure sheet, Annex 6 the self-declarations, Annex 7 the list of eligible CAEN codes, Annex 8 the list of CAEN codes eligible only for fitting out buildings, Annex 9 the list of areas with high tourism potential, Annex 10 the list of localities in the Danube Delta ITI and Annex 11 the instructions on avoiding artificial conditions.

The selection criteria live in a single document: E1.2, the general project evaluation sheet for sM 6.2, published in the same set. We have dropped from this page the claim, previously taken from secondary sources, that projects with IT services received extra points: we have not read that score in the evaluation sheet, and a score is not published from memory. Anyone who needs the answer will find it in E1.2, at the official source.

On a reimbursement line, the beneficiary pays the supplier and then claims the money back against an invoice. On 6.2 the logic was reversed: 70% of the lump sum arrived after the financing contract was signed, and the remaining 30% after verification that the business plan had been correctly implemented, within at most 3 years. The beneficiary therefore had liquidity at the start and a result condition at the end.

For a software supplier that meant two things. First, payment did not depend on a reimbursement claim being approved for each invoice, so the contract could follow a normal schedule. Second, and more importantly, the final instalment depended on the business actually working as described in the plan, which turns a website or an order system from a ticked deliverable into evidence of activity.

Under the Strategic Plan 2023-2027, the AFIR investment nomenclature is organised around interventions carrying DR codes. On checking on 30 July 2026 we did not identify on the agency's portal a national intervention reproducing the lump-sum mechanics for setting up non-agricultural activities in the countryside. We do not claim it does not exist: we state that we did not find it and that we do not publish an intervention code we have not seen on an official page.

The route left to check locally is LEADER. Each Local Action Group publishes its own strategy, its own calls and its own scoring grid, and conditions differ from one territory to another — amounts included. The commune where the firm is registered determines the group, and therefore the rules. That is the only honest answer to the successor question.

We do not issue a technical offer or budget for a closed call, and we do not date documents as if they had been drawn up during the session. We have been asked for both and we refuse: a backdated document contaminates the whole dossier and endangers a project that would otherwise have passed. It costs us the occasional order, but not a serious conversation.

We do not assess a company's eligibility and we do not stand in for a funding consultant. As a software supplier we deliver the specification, the technical offer, the budget by cost category, the implementation and the acceptance documents needed at reimbursement — for the call that is open when you submit, not for one from the archive.