Logroño, Feb 16 (EFE).- The CEOE considers that the EU Next Generation Funds are “an opportunity” for the Spanish business fabric, but “companies, especially SMEs and the self-employed, cannot be allowed to run out in his administrative viacrucis to reach these funds”.
This was stated this Thursday by the head of the European Funds Office of the employers, Luis Socías, in statements to journalists at the beginning of a conference, organized by the Federation of Businessmen of La Rioja (FER), to inform the business fabric of the situation and news for 2023 of these funds.
In the last quarter of 2022, he specified, “we noticed that there has been a certain additional speed in the publication of the calls”.
However, he added, “an effort is still needed to guarantee ease and flexibility in these calls”, especially in areas such as the Strategic Plans for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE).
The CEOE asks the Government that the calls be “reasonable and flexible in terms, with guarantees that allow it not to be so expensive to go, with bank guarantees, to aid.”
Another of his requests is that the issues that do not depend on European impositions, but that are national in scope, be eliminated.
“It is necessary for the language of the public sector to adapt more and more to that of the company” in the publication of the calls and the requirements that appear in them, such as facilitating administrative procedures, since, otherwise, it will be very difficult to execute these funds”, said Socías. EFE
