Aid up to EUR 200,000 in SMEs business To support their sales abroad, it provides for a program of NSRF running from last week, as its members informed the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The NSRF program for businesses is part of the strategy to increase exports under review with the aim of further improving performance in new markets and new products in which Greece has a comparative advantage. It is noted that in the same direction it is a recent study by the State Budget Office in Parliament, which indicates, inter alia, the redirection of exports to new international markets in response to the uncertainty created internationally by the imposition of US duties.
According to the information from the EBEA and the Intermediate Body (EFSEA), the EUR 200 million budget program will be open for submission of applications by October 9 and its key features are as follows:
The minimum investment plans budget is 80,000 euros.
The total subsidized budget of the investment plan may not exceed twice the highest turnover, achieved in one of the three complete (or fewer if the business does not have three) closed management periods of the year preceding the funding of funding.
The rates of funding applications are uniform for all eligible costs of investment projects and range from 40% to 50% of the subsidized budget of each funding application, depending on the category of its implementation.
Beneficiaries of the action are the Existing small, very small and medium -sized businesseswhich prior to the date of submission of the funding application and have at least one complete (ie continuous twelve -month operation) closed management. In addition, to operate substantially (the main activity code or the activity code with the highest revenue) at the date of electronic submission of the funding application to an eligible CAD activity and to have at least one annual employment unit of a subordinate work in the calendar year preceding the funding application. This will be confirmed on the basis of the declared data kept for this business in the ERGANI Information System.
When submitting the funding application it should be shown that at least 25% of the private budget’s private participation is secured with equity.
It is noted that it is mandatory to achieve an increase in exports of the reinforced business[(inrelationtotheamountofitsexportsinthetaxyear2024atleastequalto70%ofthepubliccompletionexpenditurewhichmustbeachievedatthelatestwithinthreeyearsofthecompletionoftheact[(σεσχέσημετοποσότωνεξαγωγώντηςκατάτοφορολογικόέτος2024σεύψοςτουλάχιστονίσομετο70%τηςδημόσιαςδαπάνηςολοκλήρωσηςηοποίαθαπρέπειναεπιτευχθείτοαργότεροεντόςτριετίαςαπότηνολοκλήρωσητηςπράξης
Eligible expenses are:
- Supply of Productive and Mechanical Equipment
- Services: Product and Services Certifications, Packaging / Label Design / Branding, Patent / Signaling, etc.
- Software to optimize production processes, e-shop construction etc.
- Participation in professional exhibitions abroad, promotion, networking.
Supplementary Expenditure:
- Complete wage costs of newly recruited staff
- indirect expenditure
The time of investment implementation is 18 months from the date of electronic notification of the final approval of the funding application.