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The minister of European Funds announces the increase up to 1 billion euro of the sum allocated to the relaunching of the economy
The minister of European Funds Marcel Bolos announced the increase of up to one billion euro of the sum allocated to the relaunch of the economy – European money and budget funds – following the negotiations with the European Commission, the sum being complimentary to the projects launching which are considered to encourage entrepreneurship in the post-pandemics economy.
There will also be appeals for projects already included in the operational programmes.
In the online debate hosted by the National Council for Private small and medium enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR) were detailed the four instruments negotiated with the European Commission which are under analysis with the government.
‘Grants worth 10% of the turnover destined to the working capital necessary to the financing of the current activities, such as stocks. Consumption vouchers, including the tourism ones for digitization or for services. The subsidy of the salaries for the personnel in technical unemployment, measures which will cover up to 50% of the salary costs, once the proposal is accepted by the European Commission. The support of the investments under the form of aid schemes, the maximum value being 800,000 euro for each SMEs’ the minister shows.
As a premiere, the involvement of the banks of the evaluation of the European projects is mentioned as well. ‘The aid at the disposal of SMEs was of 500 million euro, then the sum of 750 million was presented in the public area and today we can speak about one billion euro which we obtained from the European Commission, besides the state budget aid’ minister Bolos stated in the online statement.
Similarly, minister Marcel Bolos announced that there will be consultations with the banking environment to conceive a mechanism in Romania for the first time. ‘To simplify the red tape of the evaluation and selection process of the projects for European funds we take into consideration a mechanism through which the projects destined to the business environment benefits from an evaluation of the bankability which could simplify at maximum the evaluation technical and financial’ the official said.