Create a hedge management plan

In line with aid schemes for hedgerows and the wood energy sector, the Department is committed to promoting Hedge Management Plans (PGH). At the scale of a farm or even communal or inter-communal territories, PGHs aim to establish a multi-year program for the enhancement of hedgerows combining profitability and production constraints with sustainable and reasoned hedge management.

Objectives of the hedge management plan:

• estimation of sustainable wood energy production capacity
• diagnosis of hedge types, their state of conservation and their interest in terms of wood energy, erosion control, biodiversity or landscape

Importance of aid:

• 70% of the ex-tax amount of the study;
• for individual projects: annual ceiling of eligible expenses of 1,500 euros ex-tax per beneficiary;
• for community projects: ceiling of eligible expenses of 6,000 euros ex-tax per year (aid cumulative with aid for wood-energy sector animation if the study is carried out by a service provider).

To be processed for the current year's budget, the file must be complete before October 31.