POIM 1
POIM 1 – Energy efficiency and the use of energy from renewable sources for the own consumption of
enterprises.
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FUNDING
The minimum value is 50,000 euros and the maximum is 500,000 euros.
Funding intensity: minimum 30% – maximum 65%.
ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
The applicant is a legally established company in Romania, until December 31, 2021 inclusive;
The applicant had at least one employee on December 31, 2021;
The applicant is not in difficulty;
The applicant has fulfilled its obligations to pay taxes, fees, and social security contributions to the component budgets of the consolidated general budget, including to local budgets;
The applicant is not bankrupt, in liquidation;
The applicant undertakes to ensure the sustainability of the project, namely to ensure the conduct of operational/current activities and to maintain the specific energy parameters to which it has committed for a period of at least 5 years after the expiration of the project implementation period;
The applicant holds at least one contract for the supply of electricity, natural gas, or thermal energy;
The applicant presents a declaration of total annual energy consumption, showing the total energy consumption calculated in tep/year, where applicable.
OBLIGATIONS
Support is not granted for:
Decommissioning or construction of nuclear power plants;
Investments aiming at reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
Investments in the housing sector;
Manufacture, processing, and marketing of tobacco and tobacco products;
Equipment (machinery, technological equipment), computer equipment;
Investments in equipment/machinery/specific equipment necessary for obtaining energy from renewable sources;
Investments in modernization/rehabilitation/increasing installed capacities, including the addition of new installations for energy production from renewable energy sources to existing cogeneration/trigeneration facilities.
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FUNDING
The minimum value is 50,000 euros and the maximum is 500,000 euros.
Funding intensity: minimum 30% – maximum 65%.
ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
(1) Applicants must cumulatively meet the following institutional, legal, and financial conditions:
a) The applicant is a legally established company in Romania, by December 31, 2021, and falls under the category of SME or large enterprises, as applicable, as defined in Government Ordinance No. 112/2022, art. 2, lit. i) respectively lit. j), and carries out its activity in Romania at the time of submitting the funding application and is registered with the Trade Registry Office, according to national legislation in force.
b) The applicant had at least one employee as of December 31, 2021.
c) It carries out production/service provision activities, excluding real estate investments, consultancy, technical assistance, and activities listed in Annex 1 to Government Decision No. 780/2006, as subsequently amended and supplemented. Thus, the applicant does not apply for funding for the sectors and areas provided for in art. 1 para. (3) of Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014 of the Commission of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty, respectively those mentioned in section 1.9 of this guide;
d) The applicant cumulatively meets the conditions defined in art. 11 of Government Ordinance no. 112/2022, including not being in difficulty, in accordance with the provisions of art. 2 para. 18 of Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014, as subsequently amended and supplemented;
e) The applicant is not the subject of an unexecuted recovery order following a previous decision of the Competition Council or the European Commission, by which state aid has been declared illegal and incompatible with the internal market;
f) The applicant has fulfilled its obligations to pay taxes, duties, and social security contributions to the component budgets of the consolidated general budget, including local budgets;
g) The applicant is not bankrupt, in liquidation, has business conducted by a judicial administrator, or their commercial activities are suspended or the subject of an arrangement with creditors or are in a similar situation to the previous ones, regulated by law, or are the subject of a legal procedure for declaring them bankrupt, in liquidation, conducting business by a judicial administrator;
h) The legal representative and/or the applicant have not been convicted by a final court decision for an offense related to their professional conduct, for fraud, corruption, participation in a criminal organization, or any other illegal activities detrimental to the financial interests of the European Union.
i) The legal representative of the applicant who exercises their rights at the time of submitting the funding application and during the evaluation, selection, and contracting process is not in any of the following situations:
– is the subject of a conflict of interest, as defined in accordance with national/community provisions in force, or is in a situation that has or may have the effect of compromising the objectivity and impartiality of the evaluation, selection, contracting, and project implementation process;
– is in a situation likely to seriously mislead the managing authority and/or its delegates, or the evaluation and selection committees, by providing incorrect information in this call for proposals or in other calls for proposals carried out for funding under other European/national programs;
– is in a situation likely to attempt/to have attempted to obtain confidential information or influence the evaluation and selection committees or the managing authority and/or its delegates during the evaluation and selection process of this call for proposals or other calls for proposals carried out under European/national funding programs;
j) The applicant demonstrates project management capacity and technical capacity to support project activities, through information on the staff involved in project implementation/outsourcing of project management services.
k) The applicant demonstrates financial capacity for project implementation and has its own co-financing of the project established in accordance with the legal provisions on state aid, as will be included in state aid schemes and assumes the coverage of amounts related to ineligible expenses.
l) The applicant undertakes to ensure the sustainability of the project, namely to ensure the conduct of operational/current activities and to maintain the specific energy parameters to which they have committed for a period of at least 5 years after the expiration of the project implementation period;
m) The applicant has not benefited from financial support from public funds, including EU funds, in the last 5 years for the same activities (eligible costs) or is not currently implementing projects, partially or entirely, funded from other public sources, for the same activities. Also, for the same eligible costs, the beneficiary has not requested funding from other public sources, including EU funds.
n) The applicant holds at least one contract for the supply of electricity, natural gas, or thermal energy, depending on the type of funding requested, which is valid for the point of consumption where funding is requested;
o) The applicant submits a declaration of total annual energy consumption showing the total energy consumption calculated in tep/year, where applicable.
(2) Financial support is not granted for:
a) the sectors and fields provided for in Article 1 (3) 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.
b) the decommissioning or construction of nuclear power plants;
c) investments aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from activities listed in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC;
d) investments in the housing sector, except those related to promoting energy efficiency or the use of energy from renewable sources;
e) the manufacture, processing, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products;
f) enterprises in difficulty, as defined in Regulation 651/2014, Article 2, point 18;
g) investments in airport infrastructure, except those related to environmental protection or those accompanied by investments necessary to mitigate or reduce the negative impact of this infrastructure on the environment.
h) for hydropower installations that do not comply with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament.
i) Real estate investments, consultancy, technical assistance, and activities listed in Annex 1 to Government Decision No. 780/2006, as subsequently amended and supplemented.
Additionally, no financial aid is granted, and expenses are not reimbursed after the facility has started its activity, and the aid is independent of the result.
ELIGIBLE TYPES OF INVESTMENTS
(1) The minimum value is 50,000 euros and the maximum is 500,000 euros. The exchange rate used to calculate compliance with these minimum and maximum values is the inforeuro exchange rate from September 2022, namely 1 euro = 4.8657 lei. This exchange rate will be updated at the signing of the financing contract to verify compliance with the cumulation rule for state aid.
The maximum non-refundable financing granted for an investment project under this state aid scheme is 30% of eligible costs, for investment projects in capacities for energy production from RES, except for biomass, if the eligible costs are calculated based on Article 41 (6) (c) of EU Regulation 651/2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty. The maximum non-refundable financing granted will be increased by 15% for investments located in assisted areas that meet the conditions set out in Article 107 (3) (a) of the TFEU, namely the areas individualized in the ANNEX to the European Commission Decision C(2021) 9750 final of 20.12.2021, concerning Case SA.100199 (2021/N) Map of regional aid for Romania (January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2027), and by 5 percentage points for investments located in assisted areas that meet the conditions set out in Article 107 (3) (c) of the TFEU, namely the “c” areas that are not predefined in the ANNEX. The maximum non-refundable financing granted is increased by 20 percentage points for aid granted to small enterprises, including microenterprises, and by 10 percentage points for aid granted to medium-sized enterprises:
State aid intensity (percentage applicable to eligible costs) | |||
All other territories | For the counties Localities from the territories of Bistrița-Năsăud, Maramureș, Sălaj, and Satu Mare (North-West Development Region); Alba County (Central Development Region); Bacău, Botoșani, Neamț, Suceava, and Vaslui Counties (North-East Development Region); Brăila, Buzău, Galați, Tulcea, and Vrancea Counties (South-East Development Region); Călărași, Ialomița, Prahova, and Teleorman Counties (South-Muntenia Development Region); Dolj, Gorj, Mehedinți, Olt, and Vâlcea Counties (South-West Oltenia Development Region), Caraș-Severin, and Hunedoara Counties (West Development Region). | Localities from Ilfov County: Periș, Ciolpani, Snagov, Gruiu, Nuci, Grădiștea, Petrăchioaia, Dascălu, Moara Vlăsiei, Balotești, Corbeanca, Buftea, Chitila, Glina, Cernica, Dobroești, and Pantelimon, Ciorogârla, Domnești, Cornetu, Bragadiru, Dărăști-Ilfov, Jilava, 1 Decembrie, Copăceni, Vidra, Berceni, and Clinceni. | |
Large enterprises | 30% | 45% | 35% |
Medium-sized enterprises | 40% | 55% | 45% |
Small enterprises, 50% 65% 55% including microenterprises | 50% | 65% | 55% |
(2) For the specific investments provided for in section 1.3.1, the following categories of activities are supported:
a) investments in equipment/machinery/specific facilities necessary for obtaining energy from renewable sources (except biomass) for own energy consumption, falling within the specific production capacity of the prosumer defined according to art. 3 pt. 95, of Law no. 123/2012 on electricity and natural gas, as subsequently amended and supplemented. The category of renewable energy sources includes the use of sources defined in art. 2 lit. m) of Emergency Ordinance no. 112/2022.
b) investments in works to modernize/rehabilitate/increase installed capacities, understood as adding new installations for energy production from renewable energy sources to existing cogeneration/trigeneration installations.
(3) In the sense of this guide, electricity production units from renewable sources will not be financed except for an installed power of up to 400 kW per consumption point.
The use of biomass as a renewable energy source is not eligible.
Expenses for purchasing project management consulting services are not eligible.
Expenses for financial audit/energy audit and/or other consulting services are not eligible under the 11.1 POIM calls for projects.
Projects aimed at energy storage are not eligible under the calls for projects launched through this guide.
For projects promoted under the calls for projects launched through this guide, the VAT-related expense is not eligible, being deductible from the perspective of the economic activity carried out by the applicant.
(4) Under OS 11.1, the following types of expenses are not eligible (in accordance with the provisions of Art. 13, letter h of Government Decision no. 399/2015):
– expenses related to in-kind contributions
– depreciation expenses
– expenses for the acquisition of already built properties
– leasing expenses
– rental expenses, other than those provided for in general administrative expenses
– expenses for the acquisition of means of transportation
– general administrative expenses
– debit interest except those related to grants granted in the form of an interest subsidy or guarantee commissions
– other commissions related to loans
– purchase of second-hand equipment
– fines, penalties, and litigation and arbitration expenses
– costs for operating investment objectives
– expenses incurred for investment objectives executed in-house
– expenses related to activities for conducting the energy audit (requested according to Law no. 121/2014).
Equipment whose production date is more than 3 years old at the date of filing the funding application is not eligible. Also, it is required that until the payment/refund request that includes the respective equipment, the green certificate related to it is also submitted.
(5) For the same beneficiary and the same eligible expenses, state aid for investments granted under the state aid scheme cannot be cumulated with any other investment state aid granted, including de minimis aid.
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Design engineering as well as consulting activities for:
- projects involving civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, traffic engineering;
- water management projects;
- geophysical, geological and seismic, topography;
- geodetic and topographic activities.