Santander (EFE).- The bakers of Cantabria can request, starting tomorrow, Thursday, the direct aid of 6,000 euros that the regional government has approved to offset the rise in costs, which some 200 self-employed workers and small businesses will be able to benefit from.
The call, addressed to the bakery and pastry industry, has been published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette of Cantabria and will be open for a month.
The aid must be requested electronically through the website of the public company Sodercan, dependent on the Ministry of Industry, (https://ayudas.sodercan.es/ayudas).
Payment of aid starts this month
Sodercan will be in charge of managing this call, with the aim that the payment of these aids begins this month of March and is completed throughout April, “in a fast and agile way”, explains the Government in a statement.
The payment to applicants who meet the requirements without the need for the month of application period to have ended.
The beneficiaries are companies or self-employed persons whose activity is registered before January 1, 2023 in one of the headings of the Economic Activities Tax corresponding to the bread and pastry industry and/or pastry and pastry industry.
The Minister of Industry and President of Sodercan, Javier López Marcano, has highlighted that these new aids are complementary to two lines of the Ministry that remain open and to which bakeries can benefit: those of the energy efficiency funds for large companies and SMEs , endowed with 8.3 million euros to change machinery, and self-consumption, endowed with another 16 million.
1.2 million in aid
The budget for these direct aids is 1.2 million euros.
“The exorbitant increase in electricity prices is causing obvious impacts on the business fabric, and in this specific case in the bakery, pastry and pastry manufacturing sectors, as the latest updates to the price index have revealed. consumption, with the consequent loss of competitiveness”, says the Government.
And he adds that this situation has led to an increase in the cost of essential items within this activity, which has “a structural difficulty” in immediately transferring these cost increases to its customers, which has caused “a deterioration in the viability economics of these businesses.