August alone accounted for about 71 million euros reaching more than 35,700 beneficiaries. Vineyard restructuring took 13.3 million, Storm Kristin damage 7.8 million and the Mar 2030 fisheries programme 7 million.
A GNR inspection in the Oeste on 27 August produced ten formal records. Eight of them fall on the workers, one on the building's drainage, and none on the accommodation itself.
September is the second general step down on the island this year, after Bel's 1.5 cents and August cuts by Lactogal, Insulac and Prolacto. Jorge Rita says diesel is rising 16.3 cents a litre, and the €23 million of war-related aid paid on the mainland never reached the Azores.
The new call joins 35 million already approved, all of it from the state budget rather than European funds. Announced at the Bravura dam, where a 15 million euro fix is expected to save 19 million cubic metres of water a year.
Portaria n.º 395/2026/1 sets the rules for a per-vehicle, non-repayable support covering April's fuel and AdBlue price rise, for co-operatives, producer organisations, fish processors and aquaculture firms that run their own lorries. IFAP will announce the application window separately.
The IVDP set this year's beneficio at 76,000 pipas, a thousand more than 2025 but 28,000 below 2023. A pipa bound for Port fetches 900 to 1,200 euros; the same fruit sold for still DOC Douro wine fetches 150 to 400. The price has sat near 1,000 euros for twenty years.
A despacho signed on 26 August recognises the 2 to 7 July and 28 July to 2 August fires as a natural catastrophe. It puts €10 million behind farms that lost more than 30 percent of their productive potential, and the window shuts at 17:00 on 27 October.
