📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (MKGP) has published a Public Tender for the intervention of investment in the purchase of new machinery and equipment for work in the forest (IRP07) for the year 2025. The total amount of grants amounts to 10 million euros.Mechanization for work in the forest. | Author: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food.
Sustainable forest management is one of the key tasks of Slovenian agriculture and forestry. Forests cover 58 percent of the surface of our country, so their effective management is of utmost importance for the protection of nature, mitigating climate change and ensuring quality working conditions. By publishing a call for tenders for the purchase of new machinery and equipment for work in the forest, the Ministry of Forestry promotes the introduction of modern, safe and environmentally friendly technology, which will help to professionalize work in forests, reduce the number of work accidents, and increase productivity and sustainable development of forestry.
Beneficiaries are natural persons who are owners or lessees of the forest, legal entities, cooperatives or individual entrepreneurs who are not owners or lessees of the forest, if in accordance with the standard classification of activities they have a registered activity under the code A02.200 - felling or A02.400 - services for forestry, and agricultural communities whose members jointly own or jointly own forest land.
Support in the framework of the investment intervention in the purchase of new machinery and equipment for forest work is granted as a value per unit in the form of non-refundable financial assistance. The level of support is 40 percent of eligible costs. The minimum amount of support under this intervention is 1,000 euros per application. In the entire program period 2023-2027, the beneficiary can obtain a maximum of 500,000 euros of support from this intervention. The funds are provided from the budget of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EU share: 33.9 percent, RS share: 66.1 percent).
Applications can be submitted from January 12, 2026 to April 13, 2026 until 2 p.m. The public tender is valid from the day after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. Eligible for support are investment costs incurred after the submission of the application until the submission of the request for the payment of funds, as well as general costs related to the preparation and implementation of the investment incurred after January 1, 2023.
TITLE PUBLICATION DATE APPLICATION DEADLINE
Public call for investment intervention in the purchase of new machinery and equipment for forest work (IRP07) for the year 2025
12 January 2026
13/04/2026
