Project Description

Bioeconomy Productive Investment: Modernization

PEPAC

Support for investments in the bioeconomy associated with agriculture or forestry, predominantly in tangible assets, aims to increase the competitiveness of the agro-industrial fabric and the forestry industry by increasing production, creating value based on knowledge, innovative processes and products, improving product quality, efficient resource management and the use of renewable energies.

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Support Status

Preliminary Stage

Financing

More than 1.000.000€

Territory

National Territory

Eligible Entities

Natural Persons
Legal Persons

Bioeconomy Productive Investment: Modernization

PEPAC

Support for investments in the bioeconomy associated with agriculture or forestry, predominantly in tangible assets, aims to increase the competitiveness of the agro-industrial fabric and the forestry industry by increasing production, creating value based on knowledge, innovative processes and products, improving product quality, efficient resource management and the use of renewable energies.

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Support Status

Preliminary Stage

Financing

More than 1.000.000€

Territory

National Territory

Eligible Entities

Natural Persons
Legal Persons

Incentive Conditions

  • Contributing to the consolidation of the agro-industrial fabric and the forestry industry, by strengthening the value chains that result from the coordinated interaction between agricultural/forestry production, the processing of agricultural/forestry products and retail.
  • This intervention contributes to the following PEPAC targets:
    • Production of renewable energies, including bioenergy;
    • Creation of new jobs
    • Increase in the number of rural businesses, including businesses in the bioeconomy sector

  • National Territory.

  • Natural or legal persons, legally constituted with a bioeconomy activity associated with agriculture/forestry.

  • Economic framework of the project to be supported: Food industry, beverages and wood, cork or activities supporting agriculture/forestry;
  • Present an investment project that is economically and financially viable and in line with PEPAC priorities (project merit);
  • More than one investment project can be submitted if the promoter demonstrates that the project is different in terms of scope, geography or time. If an identical project is submitted, the cumulative amount of projects of the same nature will be taken into account when defining the amount of support;
  • The beneficiary must ensure compliance with the legislation and mandatory rules for carrying out the activity related to the nature of the investment, namely licensing;
  • Support for the forestry sector, namely for woody material, cork, resin and pine cones, is restricted to first processing processes and as such prior to industrial transformation.

  • Construction or improvement of real estate;
  • Purchase or lease of new machinery and equipment;
  • Investments in intangible assets, namely in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy;
  • Application software;
  • Industrial property;
  • Diagnostics;
  • Audits;
  • Marketing and branding plans and feasibility studies;
  • Architectural and engineering projects associated with the investment.
  • Investments in intangible assets can be considered eligible even if they are not associated with tangible investment.

  • The rate of support is maximum for projects with eligible investment values of less than 50,000 euros, reaching 65%, and decreasing proportionally with the value of the investment.
  • The rate of support is successively applied to the value of the project’s eligible investment (measured on the date of the decision), with a “fixed non-refundable grant” of 169,000 euros being awarded to projects with an eligible investment of more than 1 million euros:
    • Up to 50 thousand euros – 100% of the maximum support rate;
    • From 50,000 euros to 150,000 euros – 80% of the maximum support rate;
    • From 150,000 euros to 250,000 euros – 60% of the maximum support rate;
    • From 250,000 euros to 350,000 euros – 40% of the maximum support rate;
    • From 350,000 euros to 1 million euros – 20% of the maximum support rate;
    • Over 1 million euros – “non-refundable grant” support will be 234 thousand euros.

Incentive Conditions

Contributing to the consolidation of the agro-industrial fabric and the forestry industry, by strengthening the value chains that result from the coordinated interaction between agricultural/forestry production, the processing of agricultural/forestry products and retail.
This intervention contributes to the following PEPAC targets:
Production of renewable energies, including bioenergy;
Creation of new jobs
Increase in the number of rural businesses, including businesses in the bioeconomy sector

National Territory.

Natural or legal persons, legally constituted with a bioeconomy activity associated with agriculture/forestry.

Economic framework of the project to be supported: Food industry, beverages and wood, cork or activities supporting agriculture/forestry;
Present an investment project that is economically and financially viable and in line with PEPAC priorities (project merit);
More than one investment project can be submitted if the promoter demonstrates that the project is different in terms of scope, geography or time. If an identical project is submitted, the cumulative amount of projects of the same nature will be taken into account when defining the amount of support;
The beneficiary must ensure compliance with the legislation and mandatory rules for carrying out the activity related to the nature of the investment, namely licensing;
Support for the forestry sector, namely for woody material, cork, resin and pine cones, is restricted to first processing processes and as such prior to industrial transformation.

Construction or improvement of real estate;
Purchase or lease of new machinery and equipment;
Investments in intangible assets, namely in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy;
Application software;
Industrial property;
Diagnostics;
Audits;
Marketing and branding plans and feasibility studies;
Architectural and engineering projects associated with the investment.
Investments in intangible assets can be considered eligible even if they are not associated with tangible investment.

The rate of support is maximum for projects with eligible investment values of less than 50,000 euros, reaching 65%, and decreasing proportionally with the value of the investment.
The rate of support is successively applied to the value of the project’s eligible investment (measured on the date of the decision), with a “fixed non-refundable grant” of 169,000 euros being awarded to projects with an eligible investment of more than 1 million euros:
Up to 50 thousand euros – 100% of the maximum support rate;
From 50,000 euros to 150,000 euros – 80% of the maximum support rate;
From 150,000 euros to 250,000 euros – 60% of the maximum support rate;
From 250,000 euros to 350,000 euros – 40% of the maximum support rate;
From 350,000 euros to 1 million euros – 20% of the maximum support rate;
Over 1 million euros – “non-refundable grant” support will be 234 thousand euros.

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