update 04.11.2009

The Rural Credit Guarantee Fund - NFI SA provides a financial instrument enabling the access of investors to credits and other financing instruments by financial guarantee granting.

The scope of activity of the Rural Credit Guarantee Fund - NFI SA consists exclusively in guaranteeing the credits and other financing instruments that natural and legal persons - agricultural producers and agri-food products processors - can acquire for the achievement of the agricultural production, agricultural products storage and processing and the achievement of investment objectives in these fields of activity.

The RCGF - NFI SA can guarantee the credits granted by banks to the local councils for the development of rural infrastructure, as well as other financial instruments issued by the lending institutions to the beneficiaries of the programs EFARD, EFF and EFAG financed from European funds with a view to the provision of finance necessary for the achievement of the projects included in the National Program for Rural Development for the foreseen period 2007-2013.

The RCGF - NFI SA guarantees:

• Short, medium and long-term credits
  
  
• Indemnity bonds issued by commercial banks

• Indemnity bonds issued by APDRP, according to OG79/2009
  
  
• Investment credits granted to the beneficiaries eligible for the  European Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development (EFARD), the European Fund for Fishery (EFF) and the European Fund for Agricultural Guaranteeing (EFAG)
  
  
• Production credits ensuring the finance sources necessary to the SAPARD Program beneficiaries that have already achieved the investment