ONBOARD INVESTMENTS IN THE FIELD OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY, SAFETY AND SELECTIVITY, INVESTMENTS IN PRODUCTIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION OF FISHING COMPANIES AND COLLECTIVE ACTIONS

Details:

Promote increased competitiveness and viability of fishing companies, through investments in fishing vessels, aimed at improving hygiene, health, safety and working conditions of fishermen, promoting the valorization and quality of fishing products fishing, to promote processes of digitalization of the activity and the improvement of energy efficiency, to mitigate the effects of climate change and to reduce the impact of fishing on the marine environment.

Who can benefit:

1 — Any person, natural or legal, from the public, cooperative, social or private sector, whether profit-making or non-profit, as well as the entities provided for in specific regulations or notices for the submission of applicable applications, which fulfill the conditions set out in this decree-law.

2 — With the exception of operations that take the form of State aid, public bodies, formally competent to implement national public policies or respective instruments, may be beneficiaries of European funds, provided that the instruments are regulated in a manner specific, in national legislation, that establishes institutional powers for the management, decision-making and evaluation of public support, namely, where applicable, the type, nature, recipients, conditions, requirements, modalities and amounts relating to financial support to grant.

Eligibility requirements for candidate entities and beneficiaries:

Candidate entities and beneficiaries must meet, from the date of submission of the application, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs b) and c), and until the date of completion of the respective operation, the following requirements:

a) Be legally constituted and duly registered, including in the Central Register of Beneficial Owners (RCBE) in relation to the people who control them, when applicable;

b) Have the tax and contribution situation regularized before, respectively, the tax administration and social security, to be verified at the time of approval of the operation and the respective payments;

c) Have the situation regularized in terms of refunds within the scope of European funds, including support granted by the Recovery and Resilience Plan, to be verified at the time of approval of the operation and the respective payments;

d) Be legally qualified to carry out the respective activity;

e) Have or be able to secure their own human resources, as well as the technical and material resources necessary to carry out the operation;

f) Present a balanced economic and financial situation and demonstrate the capacity to finance the operation, under the terms to be defined in the specific regulations or, in the cases provided for in paragraph 6 of article 12, in the notice for submission of applications;

g) Be, within the scope of training activities, certified or use certified training entities, in the training areas for which they request financial support, in accordance with national legislation regarding the certification of training entities, when required;

h) Have a bank account opened in an institution legally authorized to operate in the national territory; i) Not hold, nor have held in the last three years, by themselves or their spouse, whether or not separated from persons and assets, or by their ascendants and descendants up to the first degree, capital in a percentage greater than 50%, in entities with unregularized situation regarding refunds within the scope of European funds;

j) Not being prevented or restricted from accessing support under the terms of article 16; No. 58 March 22, 2023 Page 38-(12) Diário da República, 1st series

k) There is no pending injunction process for the recovery of illegal aid, in accordance with European regulations;

l) Not be in insolvency proceedings.

Applications may be submitted individually or in cooperation between two or more entities, and may assume an integrated nature, when mobilizing more than a specific objective, than a type of action, or than a fund, under the terms set out in the notices for submission of applications.