Lump-sum contributions for emergency transport in connection with ancillary activities

The Province grants the voluntary organisations referred to in paragraph 4 of Article 23 of Provincial Law 16/2010, which provide emergency and urgent medical transport services under an agreement with the provincial health service, an annual lump-sum grant for carrying out activities, other than those covered by the aforementioned agreements, which serve civic, solidarity-based or socially beneficial purposes or promote voluntary work, and which are carried out as secondary and ancillary activities; the fixed annual lump-sum grant is awarded on the basis of the number of active, non-occasional volunteers registered in the register referred to in Article 17 of the CTS, subject to proof that the aforementioned activities have been carried out. For the same activities, the Province also grants a further annual lump-sum contribution, comprising a fixed amount and two bonus payments, to associations which rely exclusively on volunteer staff to carry out their activities.

Voluntary associations/organisations which:

1) have signed an agreement with the Provincial Health Services Authority for the provision of emergency and urgent medical transport services for the relevant year, and 

2) carry out, throughout the province in accordance with their own statutes – free of charge and therefore without any financial contribution from third parties (e.g. reimbursement of expenses, grants, funding) - at least two activities serving civic, solidarity-based or social welfare purposes, in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex A, approved by Provincial Executive Resolution No. 2445 of 21 December 2023.

Applications may be submitted by the legal representatives of voluntary associations or organisations that have signed the agreement with the Provincial Health Services Authority for the emergency and urgent medical transport service for the relevant year/and which carry out activities within the province in accordance with their statutes – free of charge and therefore without any financial contribution from third parties (e.g. reimbursement of expenses, grants, funding) – at least two of the activities aimed at civic, solidarity or social welfare purposes, in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex A, approved by Provincial Executive Resolution No. 2445 of 21 December 2023.

Submit a specific application for recognition and payment of the lump-sum grant(s) using the forms approved by Provincial Council Resolution No. 2445 of 21 December 2023 and available on the official website of the Autonomous Province of Trento.

Applications may be submitted either in two instalments (deposit and balance) or as a single payment to the relevant Department for Health of the Autonomous Province of Trento.

Applications for a 50 per cent advance payment of the grants must be submitted between 1 January and 31 March of the reference year.

Applications for the remaining 50 per cent of the grants, or alternatively applications for payment in a single instalment, must be submitted between 1 January and 28 February of the year following the reference year.

The application must be sent to the certified email (PEC) address of the relevant provincial health department and/or any other subordinate body, signed by the legal representative either digitally or by hand; in the latter case, a copy of a valid identity document must be attached.

- Information notice pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of EU Regulation No 679 of 2016;

- a photocopy of the applicant’s identity document (if the application is signed by hand and not in the presence of the relevant member of staff).

- from 1 January to 31 March of the reference year for applications for an advance payment of 50 per cent of contributions;

- from 1 January to 28 February of the year following the reference year for applications for the final payment of 50 per cent of contributions or, alternatively, for applications for a lump-sum payment.