CEOE asks Government to make SMEs easier access to European funds

CEOE employers perceive an “acceleration” in the allocation of European funds to investment projects, but warns that more agility is needed to meet the targets that make 2023 the “biggest investment fund allocation” year. Spain”. In particular, the business organization calls for easier access to European funds. SMEs and freelancers.

“Additional Draft that the Government will send to the European Commission first trimester In the fourth ‘Monitoring Report of Next Generation funds in Spain’, released this Tuesday, the CEOE advises that the major lessons learned so far this year should be summed up. Learning from the mistakes made so far, the main recommendation the CEOE pointed out is, for example, the fiasco in the first call for the Perte VEC (Strategic Project for the recovery and economic transformation of the electric and connected vehicle), which took more than six months to resolve and resulted in a decision. minimum grant allocation 793 million euros compared to an amount of 2,975 million euros. By the way, like other projects Peter Chip or Part of the Circular Economywaiting for important calls that take time to arrive.

“Access facilities, SMEs And self-employment The collection of lessons learned from past calls will continue to be one of the most important elements for the success of the Plan”, underlined. bureaucracy and strengthen administrative agility; also in promoting the participation of SMEs in multiple calls. They also claim longer periodssubmission of applications, making guarantees and joint responsibility CEOE of companies participating in the same project, some of these problems are in the Circular Economy Section and Part of the Agri-Food Chain and encourages the Government to move in this direction.

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According to official government data, the total amount resolved calls On 14 December, the total collected to European funds amounted to 922 with 13,756.39 million euros. This last amount represents only 23% of the subsidies allocated to Spain by the European Commission responsible for Next Generation EU funds.

in terms of calls, official data show that 22,000 million projects have been launched to date (from 18,700 states and 3,400 through autonomous communities). Approximately EUR 9,500 million has been allocated to the private sector (43% of the total).

In particular, with regard to the different Sections, the Government published (unresolved) investments worth approximately €12,339 million out of a total of €32,456.84 million (38% of the total budget) allocated to strategic projects.

for him first quarter of 2023 Important calls are expected to be opened for industrial lines “with a more flexible guarantee for beneficiary companies”, such as Perte VEC’s second industrial line. Also, the first call for the Decarbonization Port project line, as well as the third call for the Aviation Technological Program (PTA), or the subsidy request applied to the ERHA Port to support renewable energy sources.

Source: Informacion

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