Priority criteria for planting permits 2022

For each year, the area available for new planting permits corresponds to 1% of the total wine-growing area of the country according to the inventory relating to the areas planted on 31 July of the previous year.

Where eligible applications for authorisations submitted during the year relate to a total area less than that available for the year, all relevant authorisations shall be approved.

If the total area of eligible applications exceeds the area available for allocation, then the allocation is made at the level of eight (8) regions according to the priority criteria selected for each of them. The available acres at regional level (1 to 8) are set at the rate of 1% of the planted area of each region, as announced in the annual census of the previous year.

For the allocation of new planting permits, the following eight (8) regions are defined:

1. EASTERN MACEDONIA – THRACE

2. CENTRAL MACEDONIA

3. ΔΥΤ. ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ

4. ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑ

5. ATTICA, CENTRAL GREECE

6. WESTERN GREECE

7. ΠΕΛΟΠΟΝΝΗΣΟΣ

8. IONIAN ISLANDS, NORTH AEGEAN, SOUTH AEGEAN, CRETE, and EPIRUS