Only 9.1% of the funds with an open call for the various Perte have been awarded, as denounced this Thursday by the CEOE. The employers' Office of European Projects has published a follow-up report on Thursday in which it is indicated that the pace of publication and awarding of these calls, although it has accelerated, is still very slow.
Going down to detail, there are currently calls published for 9,372 million euros, 28.3% of the slightly more than 33,000 million euros of investment planned for the eleven Part announced by the Government, such as the electric car, the agri-food , the aerospace or the naval industry. In these calls, 3,028 million have been awarded, 9.1% of the total expected.
The Perte are one of the mainstays of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan that has followed the pandemic. They are attributed a transformative factor for the national industry. But "since the launch of the first Perte in July 2021, the execution of these projects presents significant barriers for all the beneficiaries, especially for SMEs", the businessmen have warned. For this reason, the employers have insisted that success lies in an efficient, fast and adequate implementation, especially in the agri-food sector or the circular economy.
As great criticisms, the still low speed in the publication of the calls is seen; a need for greater flexibility and less complexity in accessing aid; and a lack of detail and periodic updating of the information in relation to the arrival of the funds associated with the Perte to the real economy. The CEOE delves into less bureaucratic burden and more flexibility in the design of projects in which they go through consortia, as well as facilitating the participation of SMEs and the self-employed, resolving the joint liability of companies and reducing the requirement of guarantees banks for access to funds.
