The EU commission has adopted the new discipline of the aids of shipbuilding State to the naval one



As attended the EU commission it has adopted the review of the norms for the appraisal of the aids of State to shipbuilding the naval one that will be in vigor from next 1 ° January on December 31, 2013. The Commission has anticipated that after such given it intends to include the dispositions in matter of aids to the innovation in the navalmeccanico field in the future version of the lines guides EU in matter of aids of State to the search, development and innovation and the provisions in matter of regional aids in the new guidelines on the aids of State to regional purpose.

The new system in existence from the next year previews an extension and simplification of the regulations, in particular relatively to the aids turned to the innovation in the shipbuilding, and extends their field of application to new segments of market.

The new system widens the capacity of the norms currently in vigor including to you the ships employed in fluvial navigation and the floating structures offshore and furnishes, and defines more specific norms in matter than aids to the innovation. Objective of the review is, in particular, to clarify the procedure of appraisal of the innovative projects to finance, so that it is online with the practice of the EU commission.

The relative norms to the credits to the export and the regional aids have remained unchanged.

The new normative picture, instead, at the close does not anticipate more specific dispositions for the activity aids, the aids to the occupation and the aids to the development, are - it has explained the EU commission - because they are not applied in the within of the normative picture precedence is because they are not specific for the field of the shipbuilding.

As attended, moreover, the new regime of aids previews the increase from precedence 20% to 30% of the intensity of the subsidies for the so-called "ships greens: "in case the innovation has the objective to increase the protection of the atmosphere and involves the respect of norms adopted of the Union at least a year before such norms take effect, or increase the level of protection of the atmosphere in lack of norms of the Union or allows to go beyond the norms of the Union - the new discipline of the aids of State to the shipbuilding recites - the maximum intensity of aid can be increased to gross 30%".