Object:
The object of these rules is to regulate the granting of aid of foreign direct investment program.
This aid aims to encourage and facilitate the realization of projects of permanent (both commercial and productive) foreign investment, representing the first establishment of the company in the destination country of the investment or the opening of a new workplace, and that can increase their global competitiveness.
Types of eligible projects:
3.1. you may subsidize projects of direct investment abroad of the following classes:
(a) projects of creation of a new society with its own legal personality in a host country in which the applicant company has not made no other society.
(b) acquisition of foreign companies, provided that the company acquire is not owned by partners or shareholders of the applicant company’s support.
(c) projects in countries in which the company already has formed a subsidiary, always and when project is to convert the commercial subsidiary in production.
3.2 projects can be commercial, logistic, technical, productive activities or services.
3.3. the participation of the recipient undertaking in the capital of the new company abroad should be greater than 50%, except in cases in which local legislation would oblige one lower percentage.
3.4. the investment may be direct the recipient undertaking to the subsidiary. In any case it will be accepted that the investment is carried out by a partner of the beneficiary company.
3.5. the activity of the new society subject to the foreign investment should be that same or derived from the portfolio of products and services of the company applicant or required to improve their productivity, and the foreign investment can not be a reduction of the activities of the company in Catalonia.
3.6 eligible projects carried out between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2016, provided the company abroad or the registration of the company is carried out during this period.
3.7. are they prioritize:
(a) implementation projects in the countries of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), Morocco, Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia and United States of America.
(b) the projects of companies that have increased the number of workers in the parent company last year.
(c) projects of companies that have not requested an IDE program the year 2014.
(d) implementation projects that represent a minimum investment of € 20,000.
3.8 excluded those investments in countries in the EU 28, except those of productive character or r & d implementations.
Aid intensity:
5.1 the grant to grant can reach 25% of accepted eligible costs if the subsidiary is productive industrial and up to 15% in other cases.
5.2 If the applicant company has a 100% share in the company subject to the direct investment abroad, shall apply a reduction of the resulting aid, based on multiply by the percentage of participation of the applicant company in the company subject to the direct foreign investment.
Date of application: until December 15, 2015.