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The intervention referred to in law 15 May 1989, n. 181 is aimed at relaunching industrial activities, safeguarding employment levels, supporting investment programs and entrepreneurial development in areas affected by industrial and sector crises. The reform of the discipline of reindustrialization interventions in crisis areas, referred to in art. 27 of the legislative decree of 22 June 2012, n. 83, provided for the application of the aid regime referred to in law no. 181/1989 both in complex crisis areas and in industrial crisis situations other than complex ones which, however, have a significant impact on the development of the territories concerned and on employment. In this second case we are talking about areas of non-complex crisis.
Who is it aimed at?
Companies set up in the form of joint-stock companies, cooperative companies and consortium companies are eligible for the benefits. Business networks are also eligible through the use of the network contract instrument.
What does it predict
Initiatives that: – involve the implementation of productive investment programs and/or investment programs for environmental protection, possibly completed by projects for process innovation and organizational innovation and training projects are eligible for benefits. of personnel, with total eligible expenses of no less than 1 million euros; investment programs with eligible expenses exceeding 5 million euros can be completed by industrial research and experimental development projects; in the case of an investment program presented in the form of a network contract, the individual investment programs of the companies participating in the network must provide for total eligible expenses of no less than 400,000.00 euros; – lead to an increase in the number of employees of the production unit covered by the investment programme. The benefits are granted in the form of the contribution towards installations, any direct contribution to spending and/or training and subsidized financing, under the conditions and within the limits of the maximum aid intensities envisaged by Regulation (EU) no. 651/2014 (“GBER Regulation”). The subsidized financing that can be granted cannot be less than 20 percent of the eligible investments. The contribution towards the plant account and any direct contribution to the expense are determined in relation to the amount of the subsidized loan. Their maximum overall amount is determined, in relation to the amount of the subsidized loan, within the limits of the maximum aid intensities envisaged by the GBER Regulation.
