Grants for INVESTMENTS IN THE AGRI-FOOD AND FORESTRY INDUSTRY in ASTURIAS

At IMPULSO, we are pleased to inform you that the call for grants for investments in the processing, marketing and/or development of agricultural products and in forestry technologies is now open within the territory of the Principality of Asturias.

Below, we summarize the main characteristics of these grants:

BENEFICIARIES

Natural or legal persons, owners of agri-food or forestry companies, carrying out an economic activity based in the Principality of Asturias.

In groups without legal personality (such as communities of property or civil partnerships), a single representative or attorney-in-fact of the group must be appointed, with sufficient powers to fulfil the obligations that correspond to the group as beneficiary.

PROJECT TYPES

Investment projects aimed at:

• Investments in technologies and procedures aimed at the development of new products, or higher-quality products, and the opening of new markets, especially in the context of short distribution chains.
• Investments in technologies and procedures whose main objective is to include information on the origin of products in their labelling.
• Creation and/or modernisation of local networks for collection, reception, storage, sorting and packaging of production.
• Implementation of quality systems and food safety management.

ELIGIBLE COSTS

• Tangible or intangible investments aimed at improving the company’s overall performance, and those aimed at processing, marketing and developing agricultural products:

• Construction, acquisition or refurbishment of buildings linked to the processing and marketing of agricultural products, and any investment aimed at complying with standards that are to become mandatory in the European Union.
• Purchase of new machinery and equipment.
• Acquisition or development of software and/or design and/or programming of websites, provided it is intended for the online marketing of their products, implementation of quality systems and food safety management, and any other investment aimed at complying with standards that are to become mandatory in the European Union.
• General costs capped at 12% of the total eligible investment (fees for architects, engineers, consultants and advisers, advisory costs on economic and environmental viability, patent or licence fees, packaging and brand designs, related to e-commerce).

• Investments in Forestry Technologies:

• Investments related to the mechanisation of silvicultural work and harvesting operations for timber forest products.
• Investments to improve storage, drying and operational conditions in sawmills, prior to industrial processing.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

• Investments must contribute to increasing the added value of agricultural products included in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, or the investments must affect the processing and/or marketing of such products, except fishery products.
• Projects must pursue improving the company’s overall performance and job creation.
• Costs may only be subsidised if the actions or investments to which they relate have not been started or carried out prior to the date on which the grant is applied for (incentive effect).
• The approved or certified investment must be over €6,000 in the case of micro and small enterprises and in forestry, and €50,000 in medium and large enterprises, except in the case of implementing quality systems and food safety management, for which no minimum investment will apply.

TYPE AND INTENSITY OF AID

The total amount of the grant will be between 25% and 40% of the eligible investment, depending on the size of the company and the score obtained by the application.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

The deadline for submitting applications is until 12 February 2021.

BUDGET ALLOCATION:

€9,300,000

11/01/2021