In February 2021, EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA from the Prensa Ibérica group announced the grouping of 21 companies in the meat sector in a macro project. to take european funds Aiming to mobilize more than 3,500 million euros and which ones the entire value chain from the field to the supermarket. Two years later, the reality leads the government to take 22 apps for driving projects with effect of 755 million €, 25% of the €3,000 million expected to mobilize. This means the following amount of requests for help: €394.4 millionmore than 1,000 millions of willing by the executive.
“PERTE a strategic project originally intended intervention of the budgets of different ministries but about him same target to introduce agri-food value chain investments sustainability and digitalisation. What actually happens is that Not all 1,000 million in one traction project chained but Corresponds to different programs of European funds“, explains the director of LLYC’s Next Generation Agro office, Fernando Moraleda. “The thing that remains most similar is the first axis, corresponding to 510 million ministry of industryHowever does not include the primary sector because the Ministry of Agriculture did not add a budget to participate; if the second axis digitizationthe most important item is the item corresponding to the ‘digital kit’ and three, research plansWhere is the Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Agriculture, but these are the ministries’ own plans,” he adds.
As Moraleda explains, in the project designed in 2021 meat industry “There wasn’t a single company that didn’t exist” and this gave meaning to the proposition. modernize the entire chainWhile the current call only focuses on the sector, as in the electric vehicle segment, second chance “Once this PERTE is over, if there is a second call, it makes sense to take into account what has been learned,” Moraleda said. string plan And include primary sectoralso a budget through inter-ministerial cooperation –“not the sum of the investments made by each Ministry”–.
In this sense, they are asking the government to support the government in a hypothetical new call. The new state aid framework proposed by the European Commission obtaining larger donations to projects and financing in new construction investments, Besides the simple concurrency, to encourage grouping especially and a agile intersectoral coordination mechanismHE make execution terms more flexible And simplify legal obligations Eliminate bureaucratic obstacles.
Among the 22 proposals are those from former participants of the 2021 macro project. Vall Group of Companies, Argal and Noel Those who want to get 67m euros to have an impact of 120m, according to LLYC. Three of them formalized three projects. someone named Carnity, led by Grupo Argal; the other, the Meatway led by Grupo Vall Companys and Inno Meat, led by Santa Claustotal in order 57 companies (31 large companies and 26 SMEs), where other leading companies in the sector stand out. beef like Guissona Food Company, La Comarca Meats, Facsa Missa, Famadesa, Fribin, Guijuelo Slaughterhouse, Senorío de Montanera anyone moralamong others.
Together Total investment of 120.7 million euros Three projects (67 million of which will be public financing and 53.67 million will be private financing) address the sub-sectors of the sector. pigs, cattle, sheep and poultryamong others and have influence on eleven autonomous communities. purpose is is “to influence, transform and modernize the value chain of this industry more sustainable and digital meat agri-food industry”. between public aid of 67 million euros It will be in the form of 39.9 million euros to grant and 27.1 million euros loans.