REI Analysis: More than EUR 6.5 billion in Non-Reimbursable Funds in the Second Half of this Year

Entrepreneurs and companies operating in Romania will have access to more than EUR 6.5 billion in non-reimbursable funds this autumn, which can be used for investments in agriculture, green energy production or consumption, recycling, the food industry, or the production of building materials.

 

According to a REI analysis, a group of companies specialized in attracting non-reimbursable financing, among the largest players in the sector, with more than 1,000 successfully managed projects, more than 80 specialists, and a nationwide presence in 13 cities, in the second half of this year we will benefit from the best period for investments with non-reimbursable support, where nine financing programs provide entrepreneurs and companies present in Romania, from start-ups to large companies, with non-reimbursable funds for development investments in almost all key areas of the economy.

“Romania is currently going through the best period in history in terms of development opportunities and we are confident that more and more entrepreneurs and companies will rely on the non-reimbursable support solutions made available by the authorities, as an alternative or in complementarity with access to bank credit or project financing from their own resources. We are optimistic and we already see clearer communication and an improvement in the evaluation processes of the submitted projects, we have received assurances that these evaluations will be digitalized and will work much more efficiently, which will make access to grant funding a much-simplified process“, Roxana Mircea, managing partner of REI Grup, stated.

Among the most important funding programmes in the second half of this year we have:

• o DR-25 Modernisation of the irrigation infrastructure: EUR 400 mln. (Call – Q3/Q4 2023)
• o DR-26 Setting up irrigation systems: approx. EUR 100 mln. (Call – Q3/Q4 2023)
• o DR-30 Support for setting up young farmers: approx. EUR 250mln. (Call – Q3 2023)
• o DR-20 Investiții în sectorul zootehnic: approx. EUR 225 mln. (Call– Q3 2023)
• o DR-22 Investments in packaging, storage and processing of agricultural and fruit products: approx. EUR 210 mln. (Call – Q32023)
• o DR-15 Investments in fruit farms: approx. EUR 150 mln. (Call – Q32023)
• o DR-13 Purchase of agricultural machinery for the plant sector:EUR 100 mln. (Call – Q4 2023)
• o DR-14 Investment in small farms: EUR 108 mln. (Call – Q4 2023)
• o DR-16 Investments in the vegetable and/or potato sector: approx. EUR 150 mln. (Call – Q4 2023)

• o 3821 – treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste;
• o 3822 – treatment and disposal of hazardous waste;
• o 3832 – recovery of sorted recyclable materials;
• o 3831 – dismantling (disassembly) of disused machinery and equipment for the recovery of materials;
• o 3811 – non-hazardous waste collection;
• o 3812 – hazardous waste collection.

• a) micro, SME, cooperative enterprises serving the interests of members through the investments foreseen in the project; investing in tangible and/or intangible assets for automation and robotics for technological workflows, integrated with digital solutions and
• b) enterprise operating in one of the following sectors ( NACE): 5829, 6201, 6202, 6203, 6209, 6311, 6312, 6399

“We recommend companies to define their investment projects during August-September, to identify a consultant with expertise and who offers contractual guarantees on the submission of a correct and complete project, a designer, a technologist and technology providers, so that they can submit projects as well founded as possible and with a real chance of funding, given that the interest for non-reimbursable funds has increased at a very high rate. In some funding programmes, we have applications for more than five times the budget allocated to those schemes”, Roxana Mircea added.