Completion and submission of requests
Announcement closed on 22 july 2016.
The completion and submission of applications will take place through the CDTI electronic site (https :// sede.cdti.gob.es/).
The deadline for submission of requests will expire on 22 july 2016 to 12:00 hours (peninsular time).
General characteristics
Project type:
Draft industrial research and development pilot enterprises in the consortium.
The definitions of industrial research and experimental development are specified by the applicable community legislation.
Beneficiaries:
Business consortia, will be formalized through a private agreement of collaboration. All companies that are members of the consortium will be the consideration of beneficiaries.
Each consortium should consist of a minimum of three and a maximum of eight companies; at least two of them should be autonomous, and at least one of them will take account of smes (1).
Each consortium will identify the company who will "" project coordinator, which is a large or medium-sized company. The project coordinator will be the partner of CDTI since the application of aid until the adoption, where appropriate, by the Governing council of the centre; this does not exclude the CDTI, during this phase, it can come into direct contact with any of the companies involved in the cluster.
May not be beneficiaries of the financing of the agenda:
- The enterprises subject to an order of repossession pending after a prior decision of the european commission has declared a help illegal and incompatible with the internal market.
- Companies in crisis (2).
- The companies that have asked for the statement of voluntary contest creditors or have been declared at the same time.
- Companies that are not aware in the tax compliance and address the Social Security imposed by current regulations.
- The firms that are not aware of their obligations to pay reimbursement of any other assistance earlier by the CDTI.
Participation relevant investigative agencies:
Projects should have a relevant participation investigative agencies from the point of view in qualitative and quantitative terms.
In this regard, requires that at least 15 per cent of total project budget approved by the governing council of the CDTI are subcontracts with research bodies; one of which, at least, it will be owned.
These effects are considered investigative agencies the public research centres, public and private universities, the technology centres and centres of support for technological innovation that persons registered in the register of centres established by the RD 2093/2008, of 19 december, the science parks associated with universities or research bodies that have their own research staff and facilities unique científico-tecnológicas.
Duration of projects:
The minimum duration shall be 36 months and maximum of 48 months. The project milestones should be for a period of between 9 and 18 months.
Project budget:
The minimum budget is financed eur 7,000,000 and maximum budget of eur 150 million.
The minimum budget be financed by each company will be 350,000 euros. In the case of small and micro enterprises financed the minimum amount will be assessed.
Business involvement in the partnership must be balanced, so that none of the autonomous companies participants or group of companies linked to or associated can exceed 70 per cent of the budget be financed the project.
Eligible expenses
- Staff costs, technical and research assistantlinked to the project.
- Costs of equipment and materialsin the extent and during the period which use for the project, including depreciation in his case.
- Costs of contractual research, expertise and patents learned or gathered by licence from external sources at market prices, and the costs of consultancy services equivalent and designed exclusively to the project. The total win may not be higher than 65 per cent of total budget be financed from each company within the consortium, and so cannot be outsourced to any member of the consortium.
- Additional overheaddirectly derived from the project.
- Other operating expensescosts, including material, supplies and similar products, deriving directly from the project.
Aid modality
The projects are funded through Partially Refundable aid of up to 75 per cent of eligible budget approved by the governing council of the CDTI and provided it does not have gone beyond the maximum intensity of aid is permitted by eu legislation on state aid.
The assistance consists of a portion of a refundable and non-refundable tranche (RNR):
- The interest rate applicable to therefundable trancheit is 1-year Euribor (3)set the date of adoption of aid by the governing council of the CDTI. The regular interests of the loan runs every six months from the time of the provision of aid.
- Thenon-refundable trancheit is up to 30 per cent of aid adopted by the governing council of the CDTI.
Maximum intensity of aid:
The funding granted to each project must be respected at all the maximum intensity of aid laid down in eu legislation on state aid. In the case of aid partly refundable the amount of aid is the equivalent of calculated gross grant agreement with the commission communication on the revision of the method of fixing of the types of reference and update (2008/C 14/02).
On the assumption that a project should consist of activities of different nature shall apply the limits of intensity depending on each type of activity.
Return of aid:
The stretch refundable be returned in a10-year time limitstarting from the centre of gravity of the project, which is calculated on the basis of the duration and for the project milestones. The first amortization of the principal amount will be three years after the centre of gravity of the project and never before 2 years of its completion date.
Incentive effect of aid
The aid must be an incentive in the activity under the aid, so that change the behaviour of the company and undertake activities that would not or did so partially.
For practical purposes, the project may have begun before the company has made the request of CDTI aid, which should contain a minimum information specified in the tab of the instrument. It will be understood as the start of the start of r & D + i or irrevocable first agreement between the beneficiary and individual contractors for implementing the project.
Aid disbursement and advances
The disbursement of aid will take place after the certification of conformity of compliance with the technical and economic conditions provided for each of the project milestones. To that effect, and before certification, each member of the consortium is passed on to the CDTI technical justification and an audit of expenditure of each pillar of the project.
Each company can avail itself of one of these advances:
Advance payment of 25 per cent (maximum €200,000).The company may choose an advance of the 25% of the aid granted to a limit of up to 200,000 euros, without additional guarantees. The amounts in excess of 200,000 euros should avalarse by financial institutions, societies of mutual security or public entities that can give guarantees to solvency enough in the opinion of the CDTI.
Advances of 50 per cent or 75 per cent. The company can apply for a higher payment of the aid granted, provided that provide guarantees of financial institutions, societies of mutual security or public entities that can give guarantees to solvency enough in the opinion of the CDTI to ensure the 25% or 50 per cent.
Any disbursement of quantity by the CDTI is conditional on the audit of the following circumstances:
- The client is aware in the tax compliance and address the Social security,
- the client is aware of their obligations to pay reimbursement of any other assistance earlier by the CDTI or any other loans or advances granted earlier from the general budget of the State.
- the client is not subject to a pending recovery after a prior decision of the european commission has declared a help illegal and incompatible with the internal market.
The incompatibility of aid
The aid granted by the CDTI is incompatible with any other public aid aimed at the financing of the project.
Legal regime
The aid is ONE HUNDRED are adapted to the civil and commercial regulation spanish existing community rules on state aid, to the principles of management, requirements and obligations of beneficiaries, and information, of act 38/2003 of 17 november, General grants, and this year.
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Notes
[1] According To the definition contained in annex I to the General Regulations for exemption by category (Council Regulation (Ec) No. 651/2014 of the commission of 16 june 2014)(return).
[2] According To paragraph 18 of article 2 of regulation (EU) nº651/2014(return).
(3)In case the Euribor scope negative values, the applicable interest will be 0% (return).