President Zelenskyy signed the law on the state agrarian register

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 11063-d “On the State Agrarian Register”.

Earlier, on September 19, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the draft law as a whole. Then he was supported by 267 deputies, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy said.

Minister of Agricultural Policy Vitalii Koval stated that the adoption of the law will contribute to the further digitization of the Ukrainian agricultural sector, which is one of the requirements of international partners.

Also, DAR should become a single “electronic window” for communication between agricultural producers and authorities. Thanks to the adopted law, DAR will expand the circle of those who will be able to receive state assistance.

The adopted law provides for:

• Expanding the range of DAR users. State support will be available not only to producers of agricultural products, but also to organizations of water users and subjects of the agro-industrial complex;

• Regulation of the legal status of DAR and sources of its financing. In particular, DAR is defined as a comprehensive information system that will ensure, in particular, collection, accumulation, integration, storage, display, processing of data, including the use of register information, provision of administrative and other public services;

• Determination of powers of the holder, administrator and technical administrator of DAR, as well as objects of DAR and types of register information that will be processed in it;

• Ensuring the possibility of forming excerpts from DAR;

• Determining the rights and obligations of DAR users;

• Determining the mandatory use of DAR data and/or DAR management software during the provision of state support, provision of partial guarantees for credit obligations by small and medium-sized business entities, provision of agricultural product insurance support;

• Bringing the provisions regulating the functioning of DAR into compliance with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On Public Electronic Registers”;

• Formation of separate subsystems (sections) of the register, which will provide the opportunity to transform the current State Agrarian Register into a register of producers of agricultural products (farm register);

• Implementation of monitoring of targeted use of state support and aid, grants in agriculture, taking into account the position of international partners;

• Ensuring electronic information interaction of DAR with other information and communication systems, electronic information resources, cadastres and systems.

The DAR online platform was launched on August 12, 2022 with the support of the European Union. The platform was created to help Ukrainian agricultural producers. As of September 18, 2024, more than 176,000 agricultural producers are registered in the State Agrarian Register. During the specified period, more than 50 support programs were implemented through the State Agrarian Register.

USM previously reported that USAID will compensate Ukrainian agricultural enterprises for 30% of the cost of grain handling equipment.