Aid to businesses for fixed investments – Provincial Law 6/1999

Grants may be applied for in respect of investment projects – whether relating to movable or immovable property – falling within the following priority initiatives:

1. REPLACEMENT/TAKEOVER ACTIVITIES
2. NEW INITIATIVES/REORGANISATIONS
3. BUSINESS NETWORKS
4. QUALITY IN BUSINESS
5. BUSINESS INNOVATION
6. SCALE EXPANSION

Investments in environmentally efficient technologies, aimed at energy saving and the rational use of energy, are also eligible for support, provided they are designed to: protect the natural environment, reduce potentially polluting emissions, recover and reuse the company’s waste, etc.

Eligible expenditure limits

The minimum amount of the grant application must exceed €300,000.00.
Grant applications are assessed through evaluation or negotiation procedures.
Expenditure relating to the investment must, as a rule, be incurred after the application has been submitted.

Grant scheme

The maximum grant amount may not exceed 30 per cent of eligible expenditure. 

The following are eligible for the incentives:
businesses, consortia of businesses, organisations and associations involved in business activities, as well as trade associations.

Applications may be submitted by:

• the owner or legal representative of the business
• An authorised representative

Applications for expenditure exceeding €300,000.00 must be submitted to APIAE exclusively via certified email (PEC).

The documentation must be signed in one of the following ways:

• with a digital signature;
• by handwritten signature, accompanied by the signatory’s identity document

• declaration in lieu of certification and affidavit
• copy of the identity document of the account holder/legal representative (in the case of a power of attorney or submission via certified email without a digital signature
• )
• power of attorney for signing and/or electronic submission of the application
• comprehensive report (including a technical, economic and financial report in the case of a competitive tender procedure, or including a strategic plan and negotiation proposal in the case of a negotiated procedure)
• uncertified copy of the financial statements for the last two financial years as recorded in the inventory ledger (if these have not already been
• filed with the assessing body or with the Companies Register)
• uncertified copy of the most recent tax return (only for businesses which, in the calendar year preceding that of
• submission of the application adopted a tax regime other than the standard one)

In the case of investments in movable assets and plant not included in other property investments

• a simple copy of the cost estimates for the planned expenditure
• a simple copy of the duly registered preliminary agreement (in the case of the purchase of patents or rights to use technologies)

In the case of building works, which may include building installations and the purchase of land

• complete project comprising a technical report and plans, sections and any elevations and floor plans, signed by a qualified engineer registered with the professional register
• a copy of the floor plan showing the physically divided property
• technical data sheet
• a detailed bill of quantities, signed by a qualified engineer registered with the professional register, setting out the cost and the area of the land to be purchased (for construction works exceeding €1,000,000.00)
• a report signed by a qualified engineer registered with the Professional Register, in which the works and/or installations already carried out are precisely
• describes and quantifies the works and/or installations already completed, complete with appropriate photographic documentation
• showing the current state of the works, from which the date can be ascertained (only in the case of construction works where the start date is
• prior to the date of submission of the application)

In the case of the purchase of buildings or land

• an uncertified copy of the preliminary sale agreement, duly registered
• technical data sheet
• technical report detailing the condition of the property, complete with plans, sections, a map extract and any elevations, signed by a qualified surveyor registered with the professional register
• copy of the floor plan of the physically divided property
• an uncertified copy of the award notice (in the case of the purchase of properties from insolvency proceedings or forced sales)

In the case of acquisitions via leasing

• an uncertified copy of the draft contract stating the original value of the property and the elements used to determine the total cost of the transaction

It is no longer possible to submit an application.