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Upradia Micro & Smal Businenesses The Develop Therr Kapavelites June New Markets

Investment amount to qualify
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Subsidy
40%-90%

Deadline
2016-05-20

The program

Upgrading micro & small businesses to develop their capabilities in new markets - 1st CYCLE - The program

The aim of the program "Upgrading micro and small enterprises to develop their capabilities in new markets" is to strengthen existing micro and small enterprises operating in 8 strategic priority areas of OP Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Innovation (EPANEK), in order to upgrade their competitive position by investing in the modernization or remodeling of their services.

The strategic priority areas of (EPANEK) are the following:

Agri-food / Food Industry
Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)
Materials / Constructions
Supply chain
Energy
Environment
ICT Information and Communication Technologies
Health

Businesses will be strengthened in order to upgrade through increasing investments for their technological and commercial modernization, adopting the use of ICT, increasing the degree of standardization and certification of products, developing qualitatively integrated services, improving the quality of products offered and services. At the same time, with the transfer of technology and know-how, it is expected to strengthen the capacities of the production potential and to achieve an increase in the competitiveness of SMEs.

Who does it concern?

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries of the Action "Upgrading very small & small enterprises for the development of their capabilities in new markets" are existing and new very small and small enterprises, which operate exclusively in one of the following forms: enterprises of a corporate/commercial nature (Society Anonyme, Limited Liability Company, Limited Partnership and I.K.E., Sole Proprietorship, Cooperatives, Social Cooperative Enterprise of Law 4019/2011-KOINSEP).

Eligible are:

Existing businesses that are active in the 8 priority strategic sectors and keep B and C category books, which until 12/31/2015 have closed two or more management years or
New businesses that are active in the 8 priority strategic sectors and do not fall into the above category of existing ones and have been incorporated until 31/12/2015
They have until 31/12/2015 activity in at least one eligible NACE code and
At the time of approval of the investment plan, they have the CAO that pertains to the investment plan, as long as this is different from the CAO(s), in which the company is already active.

Etymological interpretation for the SME category

A small business is defined as one that employs fewer than 50 workers and whose annual turnover or total annual balance sheet does not exceed 10 million Euros.
A very small business is defined as one that employs fewer than 10 workers and whose annual turnover or total annual balance sheet does not exceed 2 million Euros.

Program budget

The budget amounts to the total amount of 130 million euros (Public Expenditure) and will be implemented through two (2) rounds of tendering:
1st cycle 2016: 60%

The budget of the present Action of the 1st cycle amounts to 78 million euros and is distributed among the Regions of the country as follows:

North Macedonia & Thrace, Central Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, West Greece €48,840,000
West Macedonia, Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, North Aegean, Crete 7,200,000
Attica 16,800,000
Central Greece 3,000,000
South Aegean 2,160,000

2nd cycle 2nd semester 2016: 40%

Subsidy amount

For the program to upgrade very small, small businesses to develop their capabilities in new markets, the subsidy ranges from €15,000 to €200,000.

Funding covers 40% of eligible costs and is increased by 10%, reaching 50% in the case of hiring new staff.

The subsidized budget of each investment proposal of a potential aid beneficiary cannot exceed the turnover of the year 2015

Subsidized expenses

When formulating the proposed subsidized equipment by the company, it is mandatory to link the requested expenses with the following categories of eligible expenses:
Buildings, facilities and surroundings up to 40%

building works, electromechanical, and special installations in the areas of production, storage, disposal and business administration.
Interventions to improve, upgrade and configure the environment.

Machinery – Equipment up to 90%

Supply - transport installation of new modern machines and automation systems
Business relocation expenses
Purchase-repurchase-installation of equipment and systems for the protection of the environment
Technological infrastructure upgrade - installation of new IT machines
Cost of software licenses or service contract for up to one year from the time of supply
Cost of adopting cloud computing services
Costs for installation and any software configuration as well as software training costs.

Intangible Expenses up to 100% (up to 100,000 euros)

Study and writing of manuals for the development and certification of management systems in the administrative, financial and production activities of companies by accredited bodies
Certification and standardization of final products and services according to recognized standards
New product label and packaging design
Certification of building electromechanical installations - performance measurements and verification.

Salary cost of existing staff
Salary cost of newly hired staff

Important dates

Application period for the Action "Upgrading micro & small enterprises to develop their capabilities in new markets" from 7/4/2016 to 20/5/2016
Start of expenditure eligibility: 11/02/2016
Duration of Investment Plan Implementation
The deadline for completing the financed investments cannot exceed forty-two (42) months and one hundred and thirty-two (132) days in total from the date of issuance of the Incorporation Decision. In the event that the deadline defined above expires on a non-working day, it is extended until the first working day.

Exceptionally, especially and only for those investment projects whose date of issuance of the decision to join the Action is later than 11-06-2020, their completion deadline cannot exceed forty-two (42) months from the date of issuance of the Decision Integration.

When, based on the above defined durations of implementation of the investment projects, the predicted completion dates of the physical and financial object are later than 12-31-2023, then 12-31-2023 is defined as the final completion date.