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In accordance with the decision of the Council of State, a law on public employment and business services is laid down in (916/2012) Article 10 of Chapter 12 Pursuant to:
Employment appropriations can be allocated and employment-based aid for the construction, maintenance, renovation, extension, restructuring, restructuring or other investment in public employment; - And the Law on Enterprise (916/2012) Article 10 of Chapter 12 Entities referred to in paragraph 1 within the limits of the State budget.
The Centre for Food, Transport and the Environment may allocate state aid to the applicant either directly to the applicant or indicates the employment appropriations necessary for the granting of State aid to another State authority, or The environmental and natural resources (investment grants) to the environment and natural resources of the Agency.
The Centre for Food, Transport and the Environment shows the amount needed for the granting of state aid to the other authority or to the environmental and natural resources area of the Agency for Enterprise, Transport and the Environment (State Aid Authority), Where this specific provision grants State aid to the applicant. In other cases, the Centre for Enterprise, Transport and the Environment shall grant an investment grant directly to the applicant.
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy shows the appropriation for the provision of State aid to another ministry or to other departments of the central government. The Centre for Food, Transport and the Environment shows the appropriation for the grant of State aid to the State Aid Authority of the Ministry or central government.
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy or Business, Transport and the Environment shall obtain an opinion on the request for State aid from the State aid authority to which the allocation is intended. If the State Aid Authority has submitted a proposal for the allocation of the appropriation, it is not necessary to obtain an opinion.
The opinion or presentation shall state:
(1) the construction and permanent employment effects of the investment;
(2) the design capacity of the project and whether the costs presented in the project cost estimate are acceptable and reasonable;
(3) specific provisions concerning the financing of the project; and
4) other matters mentioned in the request for an opinion.
In addition, where a State aid applicant carries out an economic activity, an opinion or a draft shall, in addition to that mentioned in paragraph 2:
(1) whether the project to be financed can be considered as having a continuing profitable operation; and
(2) information on any state aid and other public funding received by the applicant during the previous three years.
If the State Aid Authority has not supported the allocation of the appropriation in its opinion, the amount of the appropriation cannot be shown, unless the General Council decides otherwise in the case of a decision taken by the Ministry.
The employment budget shall not be awarded to a project for which the actual construction or repair or maintenance work has commenced before the State aid application has been initiated in the competent State aid authority. For the purposes of this Regulation, work shall be deemed to have begun when:
(1) the contract for the construction contract has been concluded;
(2) the groundwork for the foundations has been started; or
(3) demolition work, in accordance with the corrective action plan, has been initiated.
The investment grant may not, in conjunction with any other State aid to the same destination, exceed the maximum amount of state aid provided for in the specific provisions of the State aid project concerned or otherwise established. However, State aid may not exceed 90 % of the eligible costs. State aid granted from the employment budget will be taken into account in the form of a reduction in State aid under special provisions.
Projects carried out in the most difficult areas of unemployment may, in addition to the provisions laid down in paragraph 1, show additional State aid not exceeding 20 % of the eligible costs. However, the total amount of State funding for the project shall not exceed 90 % of the eligible costs. Additional State aid may not be taken into account as a reduction in any other State aid.
In the absence of specific provisions referred to in paragraph 1, the investment grant, together with other State aid, shall not exceed 75 % of the eligible costs of the project.
The granting and allocation of the investment grant shall be conditional upon compliance with the planning, implementation and State aid of the State aid project, which may be provided for in the specific provisions of the project.
The beneficiary of the investment grant shall explain the realisation of the investment's construction time and the permanent employment effects.
The beneficiary shall be required to provide the monitoring data for a maximum period of five years from the date of payment of the last instalment of the grant.
In order to increase employment, the employment budget for investment will be eligible for funding for the State-building units.
The State-building units within the meaning of this Regulation are the areas of responsibility for the environment and natural resources of the transport, transport and environmental centres, the Transport Agency, the Forestry Board, the Forest Research Institute, the Museum of Museums, Education and Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Defence, Border Guard, Management Board of Finland and the Office of the State Council. The employment programme procedure for the environment and natural resources of the Ordnance, Transport and Environmental Centres is managed centrally by the Finnish Environment Agency under the guidance of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of the Environment.
Each year, the State-building units must submit their proposals for the employment budget planned for state investment ( Employment work programme ). They shall be submitted in a manner acceptable to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. They shall be submitted to the Centre for Enterprise, Transport and the Environment, which shall submit its proposals for financing and its opinions to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. The employment work programme shall include an assessment of the employment impact of the programme.
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy approves the allocation of the appropriations allocated to the project by the Ministry of Finance to the project or to be used by the Ministry of Enterprise, Transport and the Environment. The Centre for Food, Transport and the Environment approves the allocation of funds allocated to it.
The State-building unit shall identify the realisation of the construction and the permanent employment effects of the investment. The building unit shall be required to provide the monitoring data for a maximum period of five years from the end of the programming year.
The most difficult areas of unemployment referred to in Article 5 (2) are those municipalities with an average annual unemployment rate of at least 50 % of the total unemployment rate in the country, or where the employment situation is abruptly and Severely impaired.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2013.
