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What if the principles of project durability are violated? Violation of the principle of project durability occurs when: • cessation of production activity or its transfer outside the program support area, • a change in the ownership of an element of co-financed infrastructure that gives an enterprise or public entity undue benefits, • a significant change affecting the nature of the project, i.e. its objectives or conditions of implementation, leading to a violation of the original assumptions of the project.
Transfer of production activities outside the EU within a period of years from the date of final payment of the subsidy in the case of investments in infrastructure or production investments - importantly, this rule does not apply to enterprises from the SME sector. If the entrepreneur violates the photo retouching above-mentioned rules, it may mean that he or she will have to return the funds received for the implementation of the project, along with interest, which is calculated as tax arrears, in proportion to the period of maintaining the obligation to maintain the project. The consequences are therefore serious and their severity depends on the seriousness of the offenses.

Serious violations (e.g. failure to implement the project results) will result in the need to return the entire subsidy plus interest. In the case of minor violations, such as the sale of a fixed asset whose purchase was financed by a subsidy, before the expiry of the shelf life - part of the subsidy will be refunded. Project durability – in which projects does it apply? All entrepreneurs whose projects included investment in infrastructure or production investments are obliged to maintain the durability of the project. In non-infrastructure projects (e.g. regarding the purchase of consulting services or financing the costs of promotion abroad), beneficiaries are not obliged to submit reports on project monitoring during the durability period.
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