The government’s willingness to substantially support small and medium -sized businesses at the critical stage of green transition was emphasized by the Minister of Development Takis Theodorikakosspeaking at the event for the presentation of the annual report of the Institute of Small Businesses GSEVEE on “Green Transition and Small Businesses”.
Specifically, Takis Theodorikakos at the GSEVEE event said that “Green transition is not an option, it is a condition of survival and prosperity. There can be no growth without a green transition, ”while at the same time acknowledging the challenge of high energy costs for small businesses. As he noted, the aim is to enhance their resilience in order to remain competitive in a changing economic environment.
The Minister of Development emphasized that the government has already made significant interventions to reduce business weights, such as increasing income tax exemption to 50% for new mergers, reduction of tax rates from 29% to 22%, as well as serious reductions in Competitiveness.
At the same time, he referred to actions that boost business extroversion, such as the 200m -euro 200m program, and announced that before the end of the year the Ministry of Development would announce the new regime of the development law on extroversion, which will concern their exclusively small businesses.
Takis Theodorikakos then emphasized that the Ministry of Development is determined to step up interventions for the retention of prices and costs of life. He pointed out that in October, the establishment of the new Independent Consumer Protection Authority and market surveillance will be legislated, which will unify all existing audit mechanisms and ensure the effective functioning of the market for the benefit of the citizen. At the same time, he announced that the Ministry of Development would present “a single code for commercial transactions, so that there are no overlapping and problems in the application of the relevant legislation”.
He also announced that the measure of prohibiting supermarket bids, if product appreciation has been preceded, will be permanent: “It is a measure that expires in October, but has proven to be in practice that it works substantially. And that’s why we will legislate to apply forever. “
Concluding his position, Mr. Theodorikakos reiterated that the biggest challenge for the country remains the change in the productive model: “We need to boost the productivity of the economy, give more weight to industry, extroversion, innovation and new technologies. Only in this way will the small and medium -sized enterprises are substantially supported. “