Growth+Trentino aid for fixed investments - P.L. 6/2023

The aid measure supports fixed investments in tangible or intangible assets made by enterprises and started after the date of submission of the application.

The facilitating measure, implemented under Provincial Law no. 6/2023 "Interventi a sostegno del sistema economico trentino" (Measures to support the Trentino economic system), is governed by the specific provisions of the individual measures relating to the facilitating measure "Aid for fixed investments in tangible or intangible assets" and by the general provisions common to all the measures.

What it finances

The following investment initiatives are subsidised

• creation of a new operating unit
• expansion of the production capacity of an existing operating unit;
• diversification of the production of an operating unit in order to obtain products or services not previously manufactured or supplied in that operating unit;
• substantial change in the overall production process of the product(s) or the overall provision of the service(s) concerned by the investment in the operating unit;
• acquisition of assets belonging to an operating unit.

Applications are examined by means of an appraisal procedure.

Incentive and Expenditure Limits

The incentive measure is calculated on the expenditure considered eligible and is determined in relation to the size of the enterprise as follows

• exempted under Commission Regulation (EU) 651/2014 of 17 June 2014:
  • small enterprise: 20%;
  • medium-sized enterprise: 10%.
• under the de minimis regime pursuant to Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 of 13 December 2023:
  • large enterprise: 10%;
  • wood industry, bread-making industry, licensees of the Trentino porphyry and stone trademark: 23%.

Minimum and maximum expenditure limit

The minimum eligible expenditure must be over EUR 300,000.

There is no maximum limit on eligible expenditure.

Eligible investments must

• be carried out in an operating unit located in the territory of the Province of Trento, in possession of specific requirements (check point 3, paragraph 8, of the general provisions common to all the aid measures and point 7, paragraph 4, of the specific provisions of the individual aid measures relating to the 'Aid for fixed investments in tangible or intangible assets')
• be started after the date of submission of the application for the incentive;
• be completed within three years from the date of granting of the incentive.

Further obligations are laid down in the general provisions common to all the measures and in the specific provisions of the individual measures relating to the aid measure 'Aid for fixed investments in tangible or intangible assets'. These include the obligations to maintain the operating unit in the provincial territory, employment and economic-capital obligations.

Initiatives with eligible expenditure exceeding 2.5 million euro are also subject, for the purposes of granting the incentive, to the signing of a Pact between the Province and the company requesting the incentive. In the Pact, objectives and obligations for the development of the territory are shared.

Enterprises of any size that meet the requirements set out in the specific provisions of the individual aid measure 'Aid for fixed investments in tangible or intangible assets' or in the general provisions common to all aid measures.

The application may be submitted by

• Owner, legal representative of the company;
• Delegate.

Applications may be submitted from 1 January to 31 December each year.

Each application must refer to a single initiative and a single operating unit. However, it is permitted to submit an application for more than one operating unit if the initiative is carried out with the same planning permission and its variants (or other documentation provided for by the town planning law) or is carried out jointly.

The application must be submitted to the examining body - Provincial Agency for the Encouragement of Economic Activities (APIAE) - by certified electronic mail (PEC) to the address: apiae.incentivi@pec.provincia.tn.it.

• Insurance contract covering damages, directly caused by natural disasters and catastrophic events occurring on the national territory, to the assets indicated in paragraph 1 of Article 2424 of the Italian Civil Code, (section Assets, item B-II, numbers 1), 2) and 3)), pursuant to Law no. 213/2023 (Article 1, paragraphs 101 et seq. as amended by Article 13 of Decree-Law no. 202/2024 and by Article 1 of Decree-Law no. 39/2025).

  The insurance contract is required as an access requirement for applications submitted from:

  • 30 June 2025, for large enterprises;
  • 2 October 2025, for medium-sized enterprises;
  • 1 January 2026, for small enterprises.

  Compliance with the obligation to take out the insurance contract is also required for incentive applications submitted before the aforementioned deadlines and granted after the same.
  

• Affixing of theunique project code - CUP on invoices issued from 1 June 2023 and relating to incentive applications submitted from 22 April 2023, according to the operative indications provided for by the Resolution of the Provincial Council no. 728 of 23 May 2024.
  

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