The MINISTER of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT having regard to act February 17, 1982, n. 46, that, in art. 14, established the Special Fund for technological innovation; Having regard to the decree-law June 22, 2012, n. 83, converted, with amendments, by law no August 7, 2012. 134, containing "urgent measures for the country's growth", and, in particular, article. 23, which States that the Rotary Special Fund under art. 14 February 17, 1982, law No. 46, established in the Ministry of economic development, renamed the "Fund for sustainable growth" and is intended, on the basis of objectives and priorities established and periodically in accordance with the constraints arising from membership of the community legal system, the financing of programmes and interventions with significant impact nationally on the competitiveness of the productive apparatus with particular regard to the following purposes: a) the promotion of research, development and innovation projects of strategic importance to the revival of the competitiveness of the productive system, including through the strengthening of research and development centers and facilities;
b) strengthening of the productive structure, the reuse of production facilities and the revival of areas which are in complex crisis situations of national importance through programme agreements;
c) promotion of international presence of enterprises and the attraction of foreign investment, also in connection with the actions that will be activated by the ICE Agency for promotion abroad and internationalisation of Italian firms; Having regard to the Decree of the Minister of economic development, in consultation with the Minister of economy and finance, March 8, 2013, published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica italiana n. 113 of May 16, 2013, by which, in accordance with art. 23, paragraph 3, of that Decree-Law No 83 of 2012, priorities have been identified, the shapes and the maximum aid intensity granted under the Fund for sustainable growth; See, in particular, article. 15 March 8, 2013 Decree, which provides that the interventions of the Fund for sustainable growth are implemented with notices or directives of the Minister of economic development, which identify, among other things, the amount of resources available, the access requirements of beneficiaries, the conditions of admissibility of the programmes and/or projects, the eligible expenditure, the shape and the intensity of incentives as well as the terms and procedure for submission of applications, the criteria for evaluation of programmes or projects, and the procedure for the grant and aid delivery; Having regard to the Decree-Law October 18, 2012, n. 179, converted, with amendments, by law no December 17, 2012. 221, establishing a "More urgent measures for the country's growth"; Having regard to law no 241 August 7, 1990 and subsequent amendments and additions, that the rules on administrative procedure and the right of access to administrative documents; Having regard to the Legislative Decree March 31, 1998, n. 123 and subsequent amendments and additions, containing "Provisions for the rationalization of public support to enterprises, in accordance with art. 4, paragraph 4, point c) of law March 15, 1997, # 59 "; Having regard to law no November 11, 2011. 180 on "standards for the protection of freedom of enterprise. Statute '; Given the need to foster, in the current economic situation, the competitiveness of the entire system through a country capable of eliciting and collecting innovative proposals from companies, particularly small and medium-sized ones; Considered that for the achievement of that purpose is necessary an intervention that combines the need for a high quality of the proposals with the opportunity to address an audience of businesses not restricted to specific sectors and/or territories, and that such intervention can be consistently achieved through one-stop assessment under art. 5, paragraph 3, of legislative decree March 31, 1998, n. 123; Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of August 6, 2008, published in the Official Gazette L 214 of August 9, 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty (General block exemption regulation), and in particular art. 31 establishing the conditions for considering compatible with the common market and exempt from the obligation to notify the aid for research and development projects; Having regard to the Decree of the Minister of economic development on the same date, by which it was attributed to the section of the Fund for sustainable growth for the purposes of art. 23, paragraph 2, point a), of the aforementioned Decree-Law No. 83 of 2012 a share of the resources available in the Fund, totalling euro 300,000,000.00 (Albère mountains), intended to finance an early intervention for the promotion of research and development projects of strategic importance for the production system and, in particular, for the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises, with the requirements laid down in the said Decree several times March 8, 2013 Title II;
Decrees: Art. 1 Definitions 1. For the purposes of this Decree, the following definitions are adopted: a) "Ministry" means the Ministry of economic development;
b) "managing subject": one or more companies or entities that are entrusted with the tasks set out in art. 3 of this Decree;
c) "sustainable growth fund" means the Fund referred to in art. 23 of Decree-Law No June 22, 2012. 83, converted, with amendments, by law, August 7, 2012 # 134;
d) "GBER Regulation": Regulation (EC) no 800/2008 of August 6, 2008, published in the Official Gazette L 214 of August 9, 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty (General block exemption regulation) and subsequent amendments and additions;
e) "SME: small and medium-sized enterprises, as defined in annex 1 of the" GBER ";
f) "Contract" means a contract under art. 3, paragraph 4-ter of Decree Law February 10, 2009, n. 5 April 9, 2009, converted, with amendments, by law, no. 33, as amended and supplemented;

g) "Horizon 2020": the framework programme for research and innovation set out in the communication from the European Commission COM (2011) 808 final of November 30, 2011;
h) "industrial research: planned research or critical investigation aimed at the acquisition of new knowledge, to be used for developing new products, processes or services or to allow a significant improvement in existing products, processes or services. It includes the creation of components of complex systems, which is necessary for the purposes of industrial research, notably for generic technology validation, to the exclusion of prototypes;
s) "experimental development": the acquiring, combining, shaping and use of knowledge and existing scientific, technological capacity, sales and more, in order to produce plans, projects or designs for new products, processes or services, modified or enhanced. Can also be other activities intended for the conceptual definition, planning and documentation relating to new products, processes and services. These activities may include the development of designs, drawings, plans and other documentation, as long as they are not intended for commercial use. Beyond the experimental development prototyping can be used for commercial purposes and of pilot projects to technological and commercial experiments, when the prototype is necessarily the final commercial product and its manufacturing cost is too high to be able to use it only for demonstration and validation. Any further exploitation, demonstration projects or pilot projects for commercial purposes means the deduction of income so generated by the eligible costs. Experimental development does not include routine or periodic changes changes made to products, production lines, manufacturing processes, existing services and other operations in progress, even when those changes are improvements;
l) "research organisation" means nonprofit entities, such as universities or research institutions, irrespective of their legal status (constituted under private law or public) or funding source,) whose main purpose is to carry out basic research, industrial research or experimental development and disseminate results, through teaching, publication or technology transfer , ii) whose profits are reinvested in research activity, in the dissemination of their results or teaching and research capacity and iii) whose results are not accessible preferentially to businesses able to exert an influence on the same subject, such as in their capacity as shareholders or members.