Aid from the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia aimed at the Technological Centers of the Region of Murcia for the acquisition of scient
Article 1.- Object and scope.
The purpose of this order is to establish, in accordance with the competitive competition regime provided for in Chapter I of Title I of Law 7/2005, of November 18, on Subsidies of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, the regulatory bases of aid from the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia aimed at Technology Centers for the acquisition of infrastructures and scientific-technological equipment that is necessary for the promotion of activities of R&D and for smart specialization.
Article 2.- Beneficiaries.
1. Technology Centres that meet the following requirements may benefit from the aid established in these Rules:
a) That they are SMEs.
b) That they are private business associations.
(c) Which are validly constituted at the time of submission of the aid application.
d) That they develop the subsidized actions in an open work center in the geographical scope of the Region of Murcia.
e) That they hold the status of research and dissemination of knowledge organization and in the existing and potential sectors of the Region of Murcia, reflected in the Smart Specialization Strategy (https://www.ris3mur.es/).
2. In no case may the Technological Centers that are in any of the following situations be beneficiaries of the subsidies contained in this Order:
(a) In a crisis situation.
(b) they are subject to a recovery order pending following a previous commission decision declaring aid unlawful and incompatible with the internal market.
c) That carry out activities related to export, in particular, those aids directly associated with the quantities exported, those related to the establishment and operation of a distribution network or other current expenses derived from the export activity, as well as aid conditional on the use of domestic products to the detriment of imported ones.
3. If a Technology Centre operates in one of the sectors of activity excluded in these regulatory bases and also in another eligible one, it may receive subsidies under the Order for these, provided that it is possible to guarantee through the separation of activities and the distinction of costs, that the activities of the excluded sectors do not benefit, in no way, of the subsidies that you may receive for the activities not excluded.
4. For the purposes of this Order and the notion of beneficiaries for the calculation of the limit provided for in Article 7.4, the definition of "single undertaking" set out in Article 2.2 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013, which coincides with the concept of related undertaking in Article 3.3 of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 651/2014, shall be taken into account, of 17 June 2014.
Article 4.- Obligations and requirements of the beneficiaries and eligible activities.
1. The beneficiaries will comply with the obligations established for this purpose in article 11 of Law 7/2005, of November 18, on Subsidies of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and will prove that the applicants are not involved in the prohibitions to obtain the status of beneficiary of subsidies provided for in article 13 of Law 38/2003, of November 17, General of Subsidies.
2. The beneficiaries shall adopt adequate publicity of the public nature of the financing of actions of any kind that are the subject of a subsidy, obliging themselves, in all the information and communication measures they carry out, to recognize and express:
a) The support of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia, showing the emblem of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia, as well as that of the "Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization of the Region of Murcia" (RIS3Mur).
b) If the beneficiary has a website, he must refer to the co-financing of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia in it, in a proportionate way, as well as to the "Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization of the Region of Murcia" (RIS3Mur).
c) During the execution of the subsidized action, an A3 size poster must be placed with the information about said action in a visible place and accessible to the public, indicating the co-financing of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia and with their respective emblems at the same size.
3. The beneficiaries of the aid will be obliged to submit to the control of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia, of the General Intervention of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and other supervisory bodies that, due to the nature and origin of the funds, have competence in the matter, as well as to provide as much information as is required by them.
Article 5.- Financing.
1. Each call shall establish the maximum available appropriation and its budget item.
2. The amount established in the previous section may be increased provided that the corresponding declaration of credits derived from the concurrence of any of the cases provided for in letter a), section 2 of article 58 of Royal Decree 887/2006, of July 21, is published in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, approving the Regulations of the General Law on Subsidies.
Article 6.- Amount of the subsidy.
1. The maximum amount of subsidy to be contributed by the Instituto de Fomento to a beneficiary may not exceed two hundred thousand euros (€ 200,000.00) in each call charged to these regulatory bases. The maximum intensity of the grants awarded shall be 90 per 100 of the subsidised investment, out of the eligible costs in accordance with the provisions of the "Aid" section of Annex I.
2. In the event that financial returns are generated for the beneficiaries as a result of obtaining a subsidy, they shall be applied to increase the amount of the subsidy granted.
Article 7.- Compatibility of subsidies.
1. A subsidy granted under these regulatory bases may not be cumulated with any subsidy corresponding to the same eligible expenditure if such cumulation results in an aid intensity higher than that established for the specific circumstances of each case in a block exemption regulation or in a decision adopted by the Commission. In any event, the subsidy granted under these Rules may not be cumulated for the same eligible costs with any other subsidy covered by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on de minimis aid, published in OJEU No 352 of 24 December 2013.
2. The amount of the subsidies may in no case be of such an amount that, alone or in conjunction with other subsidies, aids, income or resources for the same purpose, exceeds the cost of the subsidized activity or project.
3. In any event, the total de minimis aid granted to a beneficiary, taking into account the definition of "sole undertaking" in Article 2.4, during the two preceding fiscal years and the current tax year of the application made on the basis of this Order may not exceed the amount of two hundred thousand euros (€200,000) gross. If the amount of the subsidy to be granted exceeds, cumulatively with other de minimis subsidies, the aforementioned ceiling of two hundred thousand euros (€ 200,000) such aid may not be granted, even for a fraction that does not exceed this quantitative limit.
Article 8.- Submission of applications.
1. The interested parties, with mandatory character in accordance with the provisions of article 14.3 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, must address their request to the Presidency of the Institute of Development by submitting by electronic means applications and complementary documentation in the terms provided in the Resolution of the President of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia of January 30 of 2007, published in the BORM, n.º 36 of February 13, 2007, according to the model that you will find on the Internet address: https://sede.institutofomentomurcia.es/infodirecto/jsps/index.jsp
The applicant must have a recognized or qualified electronic certificate of electronic user signature issued by providers included in the "trusted list of certification service providers", and the list of the same will be available at the Internet address indicated above.
The electronic registry will issue a receipt that will consist of an authenticated copy of the application, including the date and time of presentation, the entry number in the registry, as well as a receipt accrediting other documents that, where appropriate, are accompanied, with an indication of the maximum period to resolve and notify the resolution of the procedure and the effects that silence may produce.
A Technology Centre may only submit one application per call. If a center submits different applications to the same call, the first one registered in time will be considered valid, being rejected all subsequent ones, unless stated against the applicant.
Article 9.- Deadline for submission of applications.
Applications for grants may be submitted within the period provided for in the publication of the extract of the corresponding public call in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, without prejudice to the provisions of article 20.3.
In any case, the minimum deadline for submitting applications will be 15 calendar days from the publication of the extract of the corresponding public call in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia.
Article 10.- Concession procedure.
1. Grants shall be awarded under the competitive competition regime, by means of a comparison of the applications submitted in which the evaluation criteria defined in Article 11 shall be applied, establishing an order of priority respecting the budgetary limits.
2. The Processing Department shall be competent for the instruction of the procedures derived from these Bases, and for this purpose may request as many reports as it deems necessary for the determination, knowledge and verification of the data on the basis of which the resolutions must be pronounced, in particular, technical reports on the projects submitted to the competent Department by reason of the matter.
3. The Processing Department will carry out a pre-evaluation in which it will verify compliance with the conditions imposed to acquire the status of beneficiary in the Bases. Those applications that do not meet the minimum conditions imposed to acquire the status of beneficiary, after the corresponding hearing procedure, will be rejected by means of a reasoned resolution of the Presidency of the Institute of Development of the Region of Murcia.
This information is an extract of the aid. For more information see:
https://www.borm.es/#/home/anuncio/08-03-2022/1022
