HE IvaceA new call has been made under the Department of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism. Direct assistance for the improvement and modernization of industrial areas Budget of the Valencian Community corresponding to the financial year 2024 32 million euro.
The call for subsidies published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV) identifies three lines of action: one Regions at risk of population decline 1 million Euros are donated, the other 11 million Euros are for city council projects. Management and Modernization Unit (EGM) in their own industrial zones as of December 31, 2023, while the third line of 20 million euros was directed to the remaining municipalities of the autonomy.
Minister of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism, Nuria MontesThis aid is intended to “provide better services and infrastructure to business parks, Increase your competitiveness and modernize your image and ultimately make them the best business card for launching new businesses and attracting investments.”
Montes reminded that the Generalitat would contribute confronting the phenomenon of population decline It particularly affects rural areas of the Valencian Community through a line aimed at improving the industrial areas of municipalities at risk of depopulation.
Likewise, he pointed out that industrial areas will also be reached via the line. EGM “We continue to value this legal formula contained in the Industrial Areas Law, which increases the competitiveness of business parks, increases the value of established companies, and also allows them to develop their infrastructure and basic services.”
It is also worth noting that the Department of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism collects all requests made by different municipal councils in order to improve the procedure and timing of assistance, in order to be able to include them in the next call. Those that refer to areas with large industrial zones.
Help 2024
The 2024 aid consists of subsidies of up to 100% of investment projects for the improvement, modernization and provision of infrastructure and services in industrial sites, industrial areas and technological zones and is aimed at all municipalities in the Valencian Community.
As stated in the call, they are aimed at annual projects or actions, Can be executed in fiscal year 2024This means that projects may have started before applying for aid, but only work carried out between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024 will be eligible to receive support.
Projects should be carried out in an industrial area Included in the Industrial Land Map It is a project of the Valencian Ivace Community and will be carried out within the framework of promoting sustainable development and the preservation, protection and improvement of the environment.
Application period will end next February 12, 2024.
Appropriate actions
Among eligible projects, construction works stand out in terms of the complete or partial restoration of services and/or infrastructures to the land, such as: electric power, gas, fiber optics, telecommunications and water This will allow for more supply to companies and the construction of major infrastructures that benefit the industrial zone, such as the creation of railway stops, bridges or access roads to the business park.
acquisition contiguous land to the industrial zone for application on the industrial site or adjacent land, as well as the expansion of roads, green areas, car parks and accessservice station, multi-purpose centre, postal service, bank offices, sports facilities, early childhood education centre, hotel and healthcare and restaurant service.
Also included are the provision or improvement of electricity supply, water supply and gas supply, the production of renewable energy for the entire property, the implementation of a system that allows the correct identification of LER codes (European Waste List of wastes generated), the creation of a web tool with information about the industrial zone, or Establishment of a census of companies in the region.
Same way, signage improvement Widening streets and green spaces and implementing bio-healthy routes, improving roads through new car parks, wider pavements, new access, pedestrian walkways, widening roads and providing lorry parking.
Proficiency bus stop shelters within the industrial zone or within a radius of 300 meters and the creation or improvement of zones/points electric vehicle charging Activities in the business park (including electric bikes and electric scooters) are also eligible activities.
Similarly, it also includes expanding or creating. treatment plantcivil works allowing the implementation of fiber optics, surveillance via closed-circuit television, creation of a bicycle lane, improvement of public lighting, fire-fighting network and separate wastewater sanitation.