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MICROGRANTS GRANTED FROM NON – REFUNDABLE EXTERNAL FUNDS

MICROGRANTS GRANTED FROM NON – REFUNDABLE EXTERNAL FUNDS

Financial support from non-repayable external funds, related to the Operational Programme Competitiveness 2014-2020, in the context of the crisis caused by COVID-19 for beneficiaries in the fields of agriculture, aquaculture, fishery, and food industry, whose activity has been affected by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

OLD VERSION

FINANCING

VALUE

5000 euro/beneficiary

FUNDING

Non-repayable Financial Aid in the form of a lump sum – 5.000 euros/beneficiary.

ELIGIBLE
BENEFICIARIES

They have carried out current/operational activity for a period of at least 3 calendar months before December 31, 2019;

They maintain their activity for a period of at least 6 months from the granting of the support in the form of a microgrant;

They were not in difficulty as of December 31, 2019.

OBLIGATIONS

All purchases must be new;

They shall maintain their activity for a period of at least 6 months from the granting of the form of support in the form of microgran;

Job retention;

ELIGIBLE EXPENSES

 Expenses related to raw materials inventory;

 Materials;

 Goods;

 Current debts and arrears to current suppliers;

 Equipment;

 Machinery;

 Installations;

 Technologies;

 Independent facilities necessary for resuming activity;

 Payment of debts to the state budget.

 

FINANCING

Non-Repayable Financial Aid in lump sum – 5,000 euros/beneficiary.

ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES

State aid beneficiaries are microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), individual entrepreneurs, sole proprietorships, agricultural cooperative society, agricultural cooperative, group and producer organizations, family businesses receiving state aid through the microgrant by concluding a state aid contract with the administrator of the state aid scheme.

(1) Microgrants are awarded based on a state aid granting contract concluded with the following categories of beneficiaries:

a) microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises that demonstrate through submitted financial statements that they did not employ individuals under individual employment contracts on December 31, 2019, with economic activity in the activity sectors with the CAEN REV 2 codes provided in the annex to Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2022;

b) individual entrepreneurs, sole proprietorships, and family businesses, as regulated by Government Emergency Ordinance no. 44/2008, with subsequent amendments and completions, with economic activity in the activity sectors with the CAEN REV 2 codes provided in the annex to Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2022; Applicants must be registered with a Unique Identification Code/Tax Identification Certificate with ANAF to register on the electronic platform.

(2) The verification of the beneficiary’s classification as an SME is carried out, on a sample basis, by APIA, after the submission of the funding application and the conclusion of the funding contracts.

(3) Microgrant funds are recovered if it is found that the beneficiary did not fall into the SME category at the time of submitting the funding application, except for the funds allocated to self-employed individuals/sole proprietorships/family businesses. If the error rate exceeds 2% of the sample, the sample is increased by 0.5% up to a maximum of 2%.

(4) Microgrants are awarded, based on a state aid granting contract, to beneficiaries who meet the following cumulative conditions:

a) have carried out current/operational activity for at least 3 calendar months before December 31, 2019;

b) have achieved a turnover/income of at least the equivalent in lei of 5,000 euros on December 31, 2019, except for state aid beneficiaries referred to in art. 5 para. (1) lit. a) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2022, established in 2019, with a turnover lower than 5,000 euros for which the minimum turnover threshold is calculated by multiplying the number of full months of activity in 2019 by 415 euros and for state aid beneficiaries referred to in art. 5 para. (1) lit. b) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2022;

c) maintain their activity for at least 6 months from the date of the microgrant support measure;

d) were not in difficulty on December 31, 2019, within the meaning of the provisions of art. 2 pt. 18 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty, as amended and supplemented by Regulation (EU) No 1084/2017, of the Block Exemption Regulations in the agriculture sector (ABER) and the Block Exemption Regulation in the fisheries and aquaculture sector (FIBER).

e) the total amount of state aid received under the temporary COVID 19 scheme established by the European Commission, together with the amount of state aid requested under this measure, falls within the ceilings mentioned in the Temporary COVID-19 Framework, namely 345,000 euros for each enterprise operating in the fishing and aquaculture sector, 290,000 euros for each enterprise operating in the primary production of agricultural products sector, and 2,300,000 euros for each enterprise operating in other sectors.

f) there are no decisions against them for the recovery of state aid that have not been fully executed and recovered in accordance with the current legal provisions.

g) they are not subject to preventive concordat, liquidation procedures, insolvency or bankruptcy.

h) they have not applied for state aid under measure 2 – working capital grants granted from non-repayable external funds in lump sum form, as defined in Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2022 on some measures for granting microgrants and working capital grants to entities in the agri-food sector with non-repayable external funding.

ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT TYPES

This measure finances, in the order of submission of the funding application, under the following conditions: – non-repayable financial aid in lump sum form – 5,000 euros/beneficiary, at the InforEuro exchange rate valid in May 2022, namely 4.9479 lei/euro.

(1) Beneficiaries may use microgrants in lump sum form, allocated from non-repayable external funds, co-financed from the state budget, based on a state aid granting contract concluded electronically, to support the following expenses incurred after February 1, 2020:

a) expenses related to stocks of raw materials, materials, goods, and other categories of stocks necessary for the current/operational activities carried out by beneficiaries;

b) current and overdue debts to current suppliers, including utilities suppliers, according to the contracts concluded;

c) expenses related to rent based on a concluded contract and/or expenses related to leasing or royalties based on a lease contract or concession contract for agricultural land;

d) expenses related to the purchase of services necessary for current/operational activities, except consultancy services;

e) expenses related to the purchase of inventory items, including inventory items of fixed assets necessary for resuming current/operational activities;

f) expenses related to the purchase of equipment, machinery, installations, and technologies necessary for resuming current/operational activities;

g) expenses related to the payment of debts to the state budget and local budgets.

(2) The expenses incurred from microgrants, mentioned above, must be related to the activities/sub-activities of the CAEN code for which funding has been requested.

(3) The verification of ensuring the types of eligible expenses is carried out by MADR/APIA and AM POC after the submission of the progress report, on a 1% sample for the validation of the justification of the lump sum amount.

(4) Microgrant beneficiaries will submit a declaration on their own responsibility by which they assume that the use of microgrants for purposes other than those provided by this emergency ordinance entails the recovery of the state aid granted together with the payment of accessories for the recovery of the state aid.

(5) Value-added tax expenditure is eligible if it is non-recoverable.

(6) In order to settle debts, invoices issued before the signing of the contract are also eligible, which will be paid from the microgrant granted under the measure, after the signing of the state aid granting contract. Outstanding debts related to taxes and payroll taxes incurred after February 1, 2020, are eligible.

(7) Consultancy expenses are not eligible under this measure.

(8) Net salary expenses, second-hand goods purchases, purchases in leasing system are not eligible, and expenses related to the rent of tangible assets are not eligible, except for expenses related to rent based on a concluded contract, for the registered office/branch where the activity for which funding is requested is carried out.

(9) Within this measure, the following categories of expenses are not part of Working Capital and are not eligible to be reimbursed from the state aid: land, constructed land, buildings, means of transport, repayments and/or repayments on loans/credit lines/leasing, interest, guarantees.

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