FESI 2014-2020: Is it still possible to benefit from European funds? LEGALPROTECH helps you see things clearly.

The end of the programming of European structural and investment funds for the period 2014-2020 is fast approaching, and the next programming 2021-2027 is already being prepared.
The ideal time to take an interest in the progress of the implementation of these funds and the subsidy amounts remaining to be granted, for the Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin region.
But before that, let’s take a quick look at the FEDER-FSE subsidy envelopes planned for 2014.

Brief reminder: the amounts planned for 2014

In 2014, the year of launch of the implementation of this 2014-2020 program, the FEDER-FSE funds, planned for the territories of the Guadeloupe Region, and the Community of Saint-Martin, were set as follows:

These amounts were provided in favor of local businesses, associations and communities, particularly in the following areas and themes:

• Innovation – research,
• Improve access to information and communication technologies (ICT), their use and their quality,
• Competitiveness of SMEs,
• Energy transition,
• Promote adaptation to climate change as well as risk prevention and management,
• Preserve and protect the environment and encourage rational use of resources.

Progress in 2020

In this last year of financial programming, the programming rates (which correspond to the financial amounts already granted to projects considered eligible and therefore selected by the managing authority) communicated by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe (as managing authority) are as follows:

Source: National Agency for Territorial Cohesion – As of March 31, 2020

That is, when we look more closely, the following amounts which have yet to be granted (and are therefore only awaiting eligible projects):

Remember that, pending communication of the deadline for submitting files by the Regional Council (fund management authority in Guadeloupe): “An expense is eligible for a contribution from the ESI Funds if it was incurred by a beneficiary and paid between […] January 1, 2014 […], and December 31, 2023 […]” (Article 65 of EU Regulation 1303/2013 DPRK; Article 4 of Decree No. 2016-279 of March 8, 2016)

Which means that any grant request for FEDER-FSE funds must relate to a project whose expenses are paid, and the completion date set, before December 31, 2023 (unless there are specific provisions for calls for projects or stricter rules imposed by the managing authority).

In summary, there is still time: LEGALPROTECH supports you.

• Do you have a project but you don’t know if it is eligible for such funding?
• What funds could he be eligible for? How to make sure he is eligible?
• You don’t know which institution (Regional Council/Departmental Council/DIECCTE) to contact?
• Would you like to be supported from the moment your file is put together?

LEGALPROTECH – Avocats supports you throughout the different stages of the procedure at a reasonable cost.
Contact our FESI FUNDS expert at 05 90 44 67 61 or by email contact@legalprotech.fr