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Decree On Grants For Projects Concerning Job-And Growth-Generating Economic Development And Improvement Of The Framework Conditions In Rural Areas

Original Language Title: Bekendtgørelse om tilskud til projekter vedrørende job- og vækstskabende erhvervsudvikling samt forbedring af rammevilkårene i landdistrikterne

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Scope and scope
Chapter 2 Definitions
Chapter 3 Applications for grants of grants
Chapter 4 Legalization control and decision
Chapter 5 Transnational cooperation project between local action groups
Chapter 6 Projects in order to promote rural development
Chapter 7 Constraints for grants of grants
Chapter 8 Project expenditure eligible for grant
Chapter 9 Project expenditure that is not eligible for grant
Chapter 10 Calculation of grants
Chapter 11 Amendment of the project and entry into commitments
Chapter 12 Payment of grants
Chapter 13 Notify obligations
Chapter 14 Inspection
Chapter 15 Wastes of commitments and reductions or repayment of grants
Chapter 16 Appeal access
Chapter 17 Penalty provisions
Chapter 18 Entry into force
Appendix 1

Publication of grants to projects relating to job and growth-creating vocational development and improvement of the framework conditions in rural areas

In accordance with section 2, sections 4-5 and § § 8-12, i lov nr. 1360 of 16. December 2014 on the Rural Development Fund, section 1 (1). 3, in the Management Act, cf. Law Order no. 433 of 22. April 2014, section 5, paragraph 5. 3, in Law No 2. 606 of 12. June 2013, on the general public in the administration and following negotiations with the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, shall be :

Chapter 1

Scope and scope

§ 1. The purpose of the scheme is to promote growth and the creation of new jobs, as well as the strengthening of the framework conditions in designated rural areas, where a local action group has been established, cf. Annex 1.

§ 2. Funds from the City, Bolig and Rural Ministeria and the EU constitute the appropriation framework for the local action groups.

Paragraph 2. In addition to the provisions of paragraph 1, The Ministry of Urban, Bolig and Rural Development could enroll in a framework which alone includes EU funds. Within this framework, the management board of the local action group may suspend projects cofinanced by other public national funds.

§ 3. Commitment of grants to projects for the establishment and development of small enterprises and micro-enterprises, cf. § 11, no. Number one and number 3 may be given to any natural or legal person or group of natural or legal persons.

Paragraph 2. Commitments for assistance to projects for the promotion of economic cooperation, section 11, no. 2-3 may be given to any person, establishment, institution or association, designated as the legal person responsible for a cooperation project.

Paragraph 3. Commitments for grants to projects to promote the tender and to improve basic services for services and urban renewal are covered by sections 12 to private and public operators.

Paragraph 4. Granting may not be granted on grants to public authorities, including self-sustained institutions, which have concluded an operational agreement with a public authority, state-funded institutions and self-sustained institutions which receive State or municipal subsidy covering more than half of the operating costs, for the carrying out of tasks that public authorities normally handle.

Chapter 2

Definitions

§ 4. For the purposes of this notice :

1) Private fund, with non-profit profit, shows that the Fund ' s instruments show that the Fund ' s funds are intended to accommodate a larger, typically unfamiliar, circle of snee-ers and that the purpose of a general predominant opinion may be regarded as useful for : the wide range of nepots.

2) Project, with a general interest, that the project has a purpose, by means of other public accessibility, to satisfy a larger, typically unfamiliar, circle of settlers that the purpose of the project based on a general predominant perception may be considered as : usefulness of the broad circle of new enders and shall be carried out without a profit in mind.

3) Small enterprises and micro-enterprises are defined as undertakings which have fewer than 50 employees and whose annual turnover does not exceed 10 million. The euro at the time of application.

4) Business schedule, a description of the company applicant will establish or develop, including a plan for how the applicant will operate and develop the company.

5) Plan for cooperation, a description of the purpose of the project, including a financing plan, the expected results, cooperation activities and cooperation partners.

Chapter 3

Applications for grants of grants

§ 5. Applications for subsidies, cf. Section 3, paragraph 3. 1-3 shall be submitted to the board of the local action group in the area in which the project is to be implemented. An application for grants must be used in particular to the Ministry of the City, Bolig and Landdistricts Home Office, or available by contact with the local action group.

§ 6. The request for an application may be made once the management board of the action group has published a local development strategy for the geographical area of the action group approved in accordance with the publication of the establishment and operation of local action groups.

Paragraph 2. When the management board of the local group has received the application for grants, the Management Board shall sign the application for receipt and may, in this context, permit the applicant to implement the project at its own expense and risk.

Paragraph 3. If the management board of the local action group is applying, the application shall be submitted to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural, who shall sign for the receipt and may, on the other hand, grant the board permission to implement the project ; at their own expense and risk.

§ 7. The management board of the local action group shall evaluate whether applications are located within the framework of the local development strategy and assign a point to each application point on the basis of the priority criteria set out in the development strategy. Only a request for a grant of a grant of at least 50,000 kr. might be considered.

Paragraph 2. The governing board of the local action group shall be suspended within the deposited expenditure, cf. Section 2, the projects to which the management board assesses the best to achieve the objectives of the approved local development strategy, finally a decision on the commitment of grants in the City, Bolig and Rural Ministeria.

Paragraph 3. The project searches that the management board does not set to undertakings for grants, cf. paragraph Two, get rejected on the application from the board.

Paragraph 4. The Board of Directors of the local action group may not suspend applications in accordance with paragraph 1. 2, to the commitment of grants after 1. July 2020.

§ 8. In the case of a business-oriented project, cf. Section 11, with an application grant of more than one million. kr., the governing board of the local action group shall consult the Regional Growth Forum before the Management Board shall send an approval of the project to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development. In this context, the regional growth forum can make proposals for amendments to the project in order to ensure coordination of the business operations in the area concerned.

Chapter 4

Legalization control and decision

§ 9. When the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development receives an application for grants via a management board of a local group of directors, the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development shall perform a legality check before the final decision by the Ministry of Commitment, Supplements.

Paragraph 2. The local action group will be able to submit each year's commitment to the Ministry for City, Bolig and Rural Development for the period 1. Jan to 1. November, and the Ministry of Urban, Bolig and Rural Development shall make a commitment to grants no later than 31. December.

Paragraph 3. The Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Rural Development may decide to amend one or more of the items referred to in paragraph 1. 2, mentioned time limits.

Chapter 5

Transnational cooperation project between local action groups

§ 10. If the management board of a local action group on a grant for a grant for the implementation of a transnational cooperation project, the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may grant a provisional commitment to the grant for the implementation of the project. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development shall, within four months of the application, take a decision on the final approval of the application.

Paragraph 2. The application for a commitment to the implementation of transnational cooperation projects must be attached to a completed cooperation agreement. Template for the cooperation agreement is available via the Home Office, Bolig and Landdistriks website.

Paragraph 3. The City, Bolig and Rural Ministeria will inform the European Commission of the provisional commitment to any transnational cooperation project and designates a Danish contact from the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development for each project.

Paragraph 4. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development consults the EU's database for transnational cooperation projects to ensure that a transnational cooperation project has been granted for a provisional approval by the competent authorities of the other parties involved ; EU Member States.

Paragraph 5. If the transnational cooperation project is provisionally approved by the competent authorities of the other Member States involved, the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may grant final commitments to the board of the local authorities action group for the implementation of a transnational cooperation project.

Paragraph 6. If the transnational cooperation project does not obtain provisional approval by the competent authorities of the other EU Member States before the end of the Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Landdistrikter's provisional commitments, the defendant shall be suspended.

Chapter 6

Projects in order to promote rural development

§ 11. Grants may be awarded to projects intended to promote employment and growth-creating vocational development in the following themes :

1) Establishment and development of small enterprises and micro-enterprises.

2) Business cooperation.

3) Innovation.

§ 12. Grants may be eligible for projects aimed at improving the framework conditions in rural areas in the following themes :

1) Basic service facilities.

2) Renewal in villages.

3) Innovation.

Chapter 7

Constraints for grants of grants

§ 13. It is a condition of assurance of grants, that

1) the applicant ' s application shall state how the project contributes to the fulfilment of the objectives of the approved development strategy of the local action group,

2) shall provide for the information required by the Board of Directors of the local action group and the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development, for the purposes of the proceedings,

3) the applicant shall attach a business plan to the application for grants for the establishment and development of small enterprises and micro-enterprises, cf. § 11.

4) shall apply a plan for cooperation in the application for grants for business cooperation, cf. Section 11 (2).

5) applicant warrants that the necessary public authorisations have been finite prior to the request for payment ;

6) applicant in the application shall indicate whether purchases in the eligible project or part thereof are covered by the EU procurement rules or the rules of the contract of the tenderer ;

7) the applicant can document the fairness of expenditure,

8) applicant warrants that the project is completed that all invoices are paid and that final design report has been submitted to the local action group within two months after completion of the project, unless the Ministry of City, Bolig, and in exceptional cases, a derogation has been granted or the case has been issued in the period 1. July 2020 to 31. In the case of December 2020, in which case the applicant warrants that all invoices have been paid and that final design report has been submitted to the local group within two months after the project has been completed ;

9) the applicant must ensure that productive investments for which grants have been awarded have been maintained for at least five years after the tilting of the tilt-holder has received the final settlement of the subsidy ;

10) the applicant shall keep payment request with its original accounting documents and, where applicable, the documentation of compliance with the tender rules, available for five years from the date of final payment of grants.

11) applicant warrants that the payment for payment for a work performance is directly related to the project and can be documented by invoice or equivalent documentation, and

12) applicant warrants that the inspection authority has access to the project area in the field of control.

Paragraph 2. Commitments for cooperation projects under the themes referred to in sections 11 and 12 and where the local action group is applying is further conditional on the condition that :

1) a transnational cooperation project consists of at least two partners from at least two EU countries ; and

2) the transnational cooperation partner shall obtain the approval of the competent authority, cf. ~ 10 (1)) 4.

Paragraph 3. Undertakings of grants under the theme basal services of services and innovation in villages, cf. § 12, moreover, is conditional on

1) they are non-profit projects ;

2) the project does not apply to land use, and

3) village plans shall be in accordance with the plans for development of the area, in accordance with the plans of the local authorities and the region.

Paragraph 4. The subsidy is given as de minimis aid, cf. Section 18 (2). 2, must keep all material for the use of the documentation of compliance with the requirements of the regulations referred to in section 18 (2). Two, ten years from the date on which the grant was received.

Paragraph 5. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development shall lay down in the case for the undertaking ' s obligation to inform the public cofinancing of the project and to publish information on the project on the Saiga ' s website ; or in relevant journals and journals.

Paragraph 6. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may lay down additional conditions for the case.

Chapter 8

Project expenditure eligible for grant

§ 14. Supplements may be granted for the following expenditure necessary to implement the project and which are directly related to the project. The costs may include :

1) Material costs, including the purchase of materials, equipment, and used equipment.

2) Intangible investment, including the acquisition or development of computer software and the acquisition of patent rights, licenses, copyright or trademarks.

3) Acquisition, acquisition, including leasing or improvement of immovable property.

4) Purchase or lease of new equipment and new equipment.

5) The general costs of the types of expenditure referred to in points 3 and 4, including fees for architects, engineers and consultants for advice on environmental and economic sustainability, feasibility studies, etc.

6) Expenditure relating to preparation and promotion of cooperation.

7) Payoff for a labor effort directly related to the project.

8) Travel costs that are cheapest possible, including the driving allowances according to the lowest prices in the state, at the time of the driving time.

9) Test activities etc. that are precedents in advance of development activities.

10) Development and marketing.

11) Other costs that may be relevant and necessary in the implementation of the project.

§ 15. Deposits to projects for business cooperation, cf. § 11, no. 2, may be combined with projects that are supported by EU funds other than the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in the same area.

Paragraph 2. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may provide a framework for the hourly rates for project-related employees and standard costs.

§ 16. Grants may be granted for voluntary, unpaid and grant-justified work by 100 kr. per hour, for projects under section 12, and if the project is of general interest, cf. § 4, no. 2. However, the total amount of the subsidy for a project involving voluntary work shall not exceed the total cost of the actual expenditure.

Paragraph 2. The Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Rural Development must approve the expenditure of grants eligible for subsidy.

Chapter 9

Project expenditure that is not eligible for grant

§ 17. Supplements shall not be eligible for :

1) Expenditure which the tilashshaver has held before the board of the local action group has granted authorisation to implement the project, cf. Section 6 (2). 2.

2) The expenditure incurred by the tilting shall be held before the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Office authorised the project, cf. Section 6 (2). 3.

3) Expenditure in the form of benefits in kind, with the exception of voluntary work carried out in the context of non-profit projects.

4) The purchase of used equipment and equipment, unless the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development has authorized it.

5) Costs of rent and leasing of equipment and equipment, unless the Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Rural Development has authorized it.

6) Expenses to which other EU grants are provided.

7) Expenditure relating to activities to which the saver shaver is obliged to carry out in accordance with other legislation.

8) Financial-auditing, legal and monetary costs, unless these are due from the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development.

9) VAT, unless this final beares of the sapshaver.

10) Purchase of real estate, including the purchase of land.

11) Operating expenses, including rent, including the Minor Office for City, Bolig and Rural Development, have been granted permission to come here under the thematic themes of section 11, nr. 1.

12) Simple reacquisitions.

13) Expenditure associated with land use production.

Chapter 10

Calculation of grants

§ 18. The amount of the subsidy may be 50%. of the eligible costs of projects relating to job and growth-creating vocational development and improvement of the framework conditions in rural areas, cf. sections 11 and 12. It is also a prerequisite for the fact that :

1) the project is of non-profit nature, or

2) Moreover, the project does not distort competition.

Paragraph 2. Deposits to other projects other than those referred to in paragraph 1. 1, which may be distorting competition, may constitute up to 50%. for the eligible expenditure. It is a condition of grants for such projects that the subsidy may be spaced within the framework of the individual enshrew in accordance with the Commission ' s Regulation (EC) No 20720/20. 1407/2013 of 18. In December 2013, the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union on de minimis aid.

§ 19. In the project period during the project period under the subject of improvement of the framework conditions in rural areas, cf. section 12 shall be offset by the sum of the revenues in the total eligible project expenditure.

Chapter 11

Amendment of the project and entry into commitments

20. Amendment of a project may be approved by the Ministry of Urban, Bolig and Rural, provided that the review of the Ministry's assessment is in accordance with the objective of the project and that the change should be adjusted after having been approved by the local authorities ; the Board of Directors of the operation. The application for a change to a project must be approved by the Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Rural, prior to the operation.

Paragraph 2. The amount of the amount may be reduced in the context of major changes to the project ' s activities or the budget. The amount of the amount may not be increased in connection with changes to the project.

§ 21. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may, on the application of the request, allow another person who, according to section 3, may be a grant holder, shall be entered in a commitment of grants. The subject of the defendant shall enter into rights and obligations under the defendant.

Paragraph 2. Application for paragraph 1 1 must be submitted in a special form to be found at the Home Office of the Ministry of the City, Bolig and Landdistricts.

Chapter 12

Payment of grants

§ 22. Applications for payment of grants shall be submitted within two months of the completion of the project ' s completion to the local action group. In the application for payment, a special payment scheme for the City, Bolig and Landdistricts Home Office is to be used, or available by contact with the local action group.

Paragraph 2. Applications for payment of grants, cf. paragraph Paragraph 1 shall be attached to the expenditure annexes issued in the name of the year of the enclosed area, the name of all expenses and documentation of the payment dated and specified so that the expenditure may be attributed to a subsidy and necessary expense. In addition, the application for payment of grants shall be attributed to the account of the attributable to eligible project expenditure on a specific schema and a final design report drawn up on a specific schema. Both schemas are on the Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Landdistriks website.

Paragraph 3. The local action group is desiding the project if the project has a $100,000 commitment. and over there, cf. § 25, paragraph. 3, and subsequently submit its recommendation on the payment of grants to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development, attached to the local action group's desedation report, the application for payment of grants, cf. paragraph Paragraph 1 and the provisions of paragraph 1. 2 documentation referred to. The local action group shall send the whole of the application material to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural, so that it is the Ministry of the Ministry not later than three months after the completion of the project, but not later than 1. July 2022,.

Paragraph 4. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may, on grounds of a reasoned application from the tilt-holder or the local action group, grant a derogation from the deadline for submitting applications for payment of grants, cf. paragraph One and three.

Paragraph 5. For projects which have been committed to the grant of the establishment of new jobs or the establishment of attractive living conditions in the 2007-2013 programming period, the application for payment of grants shall be submitted to the Ministry of City, Bolig and -Yes.

Paragraph 6. Where the tilaves have concluded agreement on intermediates with the third party, the proof that the tilashholder has transferred a payment grant to the intermediating party shall be the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development at the latest three ; Weeks after the subsidy has been paid out. The payment documentation of the Member State of Accession shall include an amount equal to the amount of the third party to be able to substantiate the payment on behalf of the Sagnon.

-23. The subsidy is transferred to the tilsagnshavers NemKonto.

Chapter 13

Notify obligations

§ 24. The onset of Tilsagnis shall, throughout the period, when the conditions for pledges are fulfilled, submit a declaration to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development as to whether the conditions for pledges are still fulfilled.

Paragraph 2. Underlies shall be granted throughout the period when the conditions of consent for grants are to be fulfilled, without undue delay in writing to the City, Bolig and the country of the City, in writing on the circumstances which may result in a withdrawal of a commitment to : Supplements or repayment of grants after section 26.

Chapter 14

Inspection

§ 25. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development shall carry out checks in connection with the administration following this notice.

Paragraph 2. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development shall be responsible for the physical checks and subsequent accounting checks.

Paragraph 3. The local action group is desiding projects with an undertaking of $100,000. and over there.

Paragraph 4. The saviors and the local action group shall assist the Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Rural Development, in the control.

Paragraph 5. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may, where necessary, seek to obtain information from other authorities.

Chapter 15

Wastes of commitments and reductions or repayment of grants

SECTION 26. Granltale of supplements will lapse if :

1) the commitments to grants for grants are not met ;

2) the tilt shall have given inaccurate or misleading information or have kept information of significance for the decision of the case,

3) the project is not carried out in accordance with the case ;

4) tillies shaver overrides his duties, or

5) the tilaves do not comply with its notification obligation after section 24.

Paragraph 2. In the paragraphs in paragraph 1. In the case of 1, the Ministry shall take the City, Bolig and Rural Development Decision on the refund of grants. The interest shall be paid by the payment of a refund claim. The interest rate supplement shall be calculated from the time the payment is made of the refund for reimbursement, and in the interest rate of late payment, etc. (Interest) provided for the reference rate provided for in addition. However, the interest rates shall be at least 50 kr.

§ 27. The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development may reduce the total value of eligible project expenses for a project if the management board assesses that the rules of the EU procurement rules or the rules of the tender have not been complied with. Reduction of grants will be determined from an assessment of the nature and causation of the infringement, and on the basis of an assessment of the possible financial loss to the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFUL), which is considered to be Connerelated.

Chapter 16

Appeal access

§ 28. Decisions on the part of the local action group to suspend or do not set applications for grants under this notice shall be subject to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Ministeria in respect of legal matters.

Paragraph 2. The complaint shall be submitted to the local action group, which has taken the decision and shall be the local action group in the event within four weeks of the receipt of the decision to which the complaint relates.

§ 29. Decisions taken by the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development in accordance with this notice may be subject to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development as regards legal matters.

Paragraph 2. The complaint shall be submitted to the Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural Development. The complaint shall be the Ministry of the Ministry within four weeks of the receipt of the decision to which the complaint relates.

Paragraph 3. The Ministry of Urban City, Bolig and Rural Development may resume a case after a complaint has been lodged.

Chapter 17

Penalty provisions

-$30. In accordance with section 12 of the Law on the Landward Fund, the penalty shall be penalised by the penalty ;

1) provide false or misleading information or information of the importance of decisions taken under the law or under the rules laid down by the law,

2) acts in breach of conditions laid down in a decision taken pursuant to the law or by virtue of the rules laid down by the law,

3) failing to provide the documentation and the information which it is obliged to provide under the law or by rules laid down by the law,

4) provide false or misleading information or information which the person concerned has a duty to give in accordance with the law or rules laid down by the law,

5) fail to grant access to the inspection authority to the establishment, etc., in accordance with section 9 (4). 1, or

6) refrain from extraditing or submitting material or to provide the control authority as provided for in section 9 (2). 2.

Paragraph 2. Companies can be imposed on companies, etc. (legal persons) punishable by the rules of the penal code 5. Chapter.

Chapter 18

Entry into force

§ 31. The announcement shall enter into force on 1. January 2015.

Paragraph 2. Publication no. 309 of 29. March 2012 on funding for projects relating to the establishment of attractive living conditions in rural areas, as well as the delegation of certain members of the town, housing and rural areas following the law of rural development with subsequent changes ; revoked. However, the decision shall continue to apply to undertakings given in its application and for the processing of applications received in the entry into force of this Order of the Local Act and, in the case of complaints against decisions taken under the terms of the Directive, to Notice no. 309 of 29. March 2012.

Paragraph 3. Publication no. 310 of 29. March 2012 on funding for projects relating to the establishment of new jobs in rural areas, as well as the delegation of certain members of the Minister for City, housing and rural areas, with a view to the development of rural areas with subsequent amendments ; revoked. However, the decision shall continue to apply to undertakings given in its application and for the processing of applications received in the entry into force of this Order of the Local Act and, in the case of complaints against decisions taken under the terms of the Directive, to Notice no. 310 of 29. March 2012.

The Ministry of City, Bolig and Rural, the 171. December 2014

Carsten Hansen

/ Christian Lützen


Appendix 1

List of areas where a local action group has been established

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