Investments of farmers in solar systems

With emphasis on small renewable energy plants, thus paving the way for investments in solar power to 100 KW and professional farmers in fields of high productivity, passed the night Tuesday, May 25 by the full House and the whole bill YPEKA for the development of renewable energy and climate change. According to the principles of the bill is the requirement that land be used for this purpose should not exceed 1% of total cropland in each county, giving producers the opportunity to gain an additional income. As stated in paragraph 7 of Article 9 of the bill on locating new facilities RES: "The case a 'of paragraph 6 of Article 56 of n.2637/1998 (A 200), replaced § 37 of Article 24 of n.2945/2001 (A 223), is replaced as follows: "6. a) parcels identified by the Department of Rural Development home county as agricultural land of high productivity prohibited to conduct any other activity outside the farm and the production of electricity from RES plants Any response to such areas, or to change their destination and their disposal for other uses or to projects or the creation or provision of other facilities serve in them, even without changing the original use, constitutes an exceptional measure and carried out only for serving the agricultural character of the farm or the establishment of RES plants This prohibition does not apply when it comes to military execution of projects relating to national defense in the country, and the implementation of large development projects by government and local government first and second grade. Especially, the production of electricity from RES plants in fields of Attica classified as highly productive agricultural land and areas of the Territory already established as a highly productive agricultural land from approved General Urban Plans (GIS) and Spatial Plans Housing Organization Open City (S. CH.O.O.A.P.) of n.2508/1997 (A 124) and Urban Control Zones (Z.O.E.) of Article 29 of n.1337/1983 (A 33) unless otherwise provided in these approved projects. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph allows the production of electricity from photovoltaic plants on plots designated as agricultural land of high productivity. In this case the license is granted only if the photovoltaic stations which have already been generating licenses or in case of compulsory, binding bids by the competent Association Manager, covering land not exceeding 1% of total cultivated land of this law. For the purposes of this provision of the preceding paragraph, data in the annual agricultural survey of 2008 of the General Secretariat of National Statistical Service of Greece. For the calculation of coverage taken into account the horizontal visibility on the ground of the modules. By joint decision of the Ministers of Agriculture and Environment, Energy and Climate Change can be defined terms and conditions for the installation of RES plants on parcels identified as highly productive agricultural land, including maximum ground coverage per station, minimum distances from the boundaries of the land station, restrictions on how the foundation and commitment to restore the site after the decommissioning of power plants in A.P.E.