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The Draft Decision for amending the GD 274/2013 on de minimis aid for investments for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has been approved.

Some of the major changes proposed made by normative act are:

• de minimis aid is up to 100,000 Euro (representing 90% of the eligible project costs) and the company undertakes to create between 1 and 5 new work places;
• eligible applicants are only companies at least 1 year old;
• the CAEN code for which funding is requested must be registered in the applicant’s activity for at least 3 months prior to submitting the project;
• “first come, first served” criterion is no longer used and project evaluation will be done by an on-line application, based on clear and transparent criteria (company size – micro, small, medium, sector of activity, number of new work placed created, location of project implementation);
• additional points will be awarded to companies that will employ one 2013 university graduate;
• operational profit and net profit at 31.12.2013 will be used as  selection criteria between projects with similar score;
• micro-enterprises active in the production/ manufacturing sector and based in rural area will be favored

The opening of the financing line will be announced 5 days ahead and SMEs will have 10 days to submit the projects online.

Please find below the main features of projects financed within SOPHRD – KAY 6.1 “Developing social economy” as published in the Draft Guidelines.

The financed costs are for implementing the following type of activities:

• Information for the identification and selection of the target group
• Awareness campaigns and promotion for the integration of vulnerable people inside social economy structures
• Assessment and counseling dedicated to vulnerable people
• Training activities (authorized training), including ​​entrepreneurship and soft skills training, dedicated to both vulnerable people and those involved in the system (social workers, specialists, employees and volunteers in NGOs, etc.)
• Developing Social enterprises and providing further assistance in conducting their business.

The target group should include individuals from one or more of the following categories :

• People belonging to vulnerable groups (e.g. people with disabilities, people living in the MIG, women at risk, family members providing for their families with more than two dependent children, including single-parent families, people affected by the disease such as HIV, cancer, etc.);
• Social workers, personal assistants / community / foster family mediators / health, carers, staff of residential institutions and Specialists and trainers involved in the social economy
• Managers of social economy structures

Among the eligible applicants: NGOs, authorized training providers, career guidance and counseling providers, social services providers.

Please note that the maximum value of the projects is up to 500,000 euros (for grant projects) or up to 4 million euros (for strategic projects) and the financed grant value is up to 98%.

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DG MASOPHRD published for public consultation up to September 8th, 2013 the Guidelines – specific conditions and the new budget template, for a new call for strategic and grant type projects for KAY 6.1: Development of social economy.

These documents can be viewed by accessing the link: www.fseromania.ro/index.php.   The financial allocation for this call is 200 million euro, of which 80 million euro available for grant projects and 120 million for the strategic type. The maximum value of the projects is up to 499,999 euro for grant type projects and up to 4,000,000 euro for strategic projects and the nonrefundable awarded value is up to 98%.

Within each type of project, out of the total budget, a part is financed under de minimis aid scheme. Therefore, up to 200,000 euros de minimis aid can be obtained for each social economy structure founded / developed within the project covering a list of necessary costs, such as they are presented in the guidelines.

One of the most important information that you have to be aware of is the requirement to create at least 2 social economy structures and 8 jobs – for grant projects and 12 social economy structures and at least 48 jobs – for strategic projects.

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The Ministry of Finance revised the GD 274/2013 and “Guidelines for Applicants” – de minimis scheme for SMEs.
The main changes refer to:

• Eligibility of costs related to construction/ acquisition of buildings for other services besides the initial activity fields: industrial (manufacturing), education, science, culture and art, health, social service, physical culture and recreation;
• Removing the obligation of presenting the indicators for assessing the economic efficiency of the enterprise for the next 3 years following the completion of the investment;
• Introduction of online registration procedure for funding applications for de minimis aid.

The first session will run from 16.08.2013 – 31.10.2013, first come- first served, within the allocated budget.
We remind you that besides buildings related expenditures, other costs are also eligible:

• technological equipments – machinery and equipments
• equipments and systems of measurement, control and regulation
• industrial vehicles (unregistered) to support enterprise activity
• IT equipments

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