Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca had a meeting, on Thursday, at the Victoria Palace of Government, with representatives of the business environment, the discussions seeing the analysis of selection criteria for companies that want to benefit from future investment grants.
The meeting was also attended by Minister for European Investments and Projects, Dan Vilceanu, and State Secretary with the Ministry of European Investments and Projects, Csilla Hegedus.
According to a release of the Government, at the proposal of the business environment, the Government will modify the criteria for differentiation in cases of equal points in the competitive appeal afferent to investment grants up to one million euro (Measure 4.1.1.), which are to be granted to SMEs and postponement of the launch deadline until receiving notice from the European Commission on the new scheme.
The budget of the appeal will be of 358 million euro, with a limit of 120% for overcontracting, meaning that the cumulated worth of the financed project may reach up to 430 million euro, the release mentions.
The representatives of the business environment have proposed the replacement of the differentiation criteria that referred to reduction of turnover in 2020 compared to 2019 with more relevant criteria.
Following discussions, new criteria for differentiation in the case of equal score, namely productivity of labor per employee in 2019, expressed as a ratio between accomplished turnover and number of employees; the share of technological machinery as worth in the project out of the total grant requested; the number of newly created jobs, as well as the date and time of joining the program.
The representatives of the business environment have also proposed that companies that saw changes in ownership in the past year not be eligible, the measure being accepted by the Government to prevent speculation in the selling and buying of companies specially set up for these grants.
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