Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirmed the schedule through a social media update, noting that roughly 40,000 beneficiaries are already being processed ahead of December clearances, as reported by Agronews.
Producers must finalize their Single Application Form by November 17 to qualify for the end-of-month deposits, following a deadline extension issued by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue, known as AADE. A separate cutoff applies to organic agriculture and indigenous animal breeds, requiring data entry by November 16, as outlined by Parapolitika.
The Governor of AADE, George Pitsilis, issued the decision for the extension to grant producers additional time to complete and finalize their submissions without disrupting the overall schedule for agricultural payments.
The transition of subsidy management to AADE has generated friction across several farming regions.
In Crete, the Heraklion Livestock Association called an emergency general meeting for November 18, extending a call to stakeholders from across the island, to address persistent delays and coordinate potential protests with other Greek agricultural groups planning actions for November 24, such as a motorized procession in the streets of Volos and a symbolic blockade of the port in Magnesia, according to Cretaone.
Opposition lawmakers have challenged the administration over the rollout. SYRIZA parliamentary figures, including agricultural policy sector head Theofilos Xanthopoulos, criticized the repeated extensions as evidence of administrative disorganization and serious problems in the new management system under the new agency.
Meanwhile, former minister and Messenia lawmaker Alexis Haritszis raised concerns in Parliament through a targeted parliamentary question directed to the Minister of National Economy and Finance regarding ongoing deadlocks with 2026 declarations and severe delays in agricultural payments, as detailed by Dnews and Αυγή.
Out of 3,655 submitted EAE 2026 applications with grazing land allocation requests submitted through September 25, exactly 552 livestock farmers remained excluded from this specific payment due to animal disease quarantines, transfer discrepancies, amounts below the 150-euro threshold, or active farmer verification checks, as reported by ΕΘΝΟΣ.
The total number of declarations submitted for the previous year reached approximately 620,000, leaving roughly 270,000 declarations pending to complete the overall intake process, while roughly 350,000 declarations have been finalized so far.
Producers participating in organic farming and the preservation of endangered indigenous livestock breeds must adhere to specific deadlines set by AADE, requiring data entry and registration of animal inventory up to November 13 for indigenous breeds and November 16 for organic agriculture to ensure qualification for the November 30 distribution.
Representatives of cultivation advisory centers, including Nikolaos Koutentakis, have highlighted that while hundreds of thousands of files remain unfinalized, rushing adjustments without adequate cross-checks creates substantial exposure to administrative discrepancies and recovery demands for undue payments.
AADE clarified that modifications executed after November 10 are ineligible for consideration in the end-of-November disbursement, deferring adjustments for producers who received reduced initial payments to a subsequent December cycle.
Producers retain the legal option to withdraw their single application either fully or partially, provided they have not received prior notification of administrative irregularities or impending on-the-spot inspections regarding those specific sections, though any funds already disbursed under such claims must be returned directly to the state.