Area: Finance
Competent authority: MF, MGRT, SPIRIT
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 823
Initiative accepted and completed: .nan
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2017-06-23'
Initiative published: '2017-06-23'
Initiative submitted: '2017-06-23'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of Finance:The State\
  \ Aid Monitoring Division (SAMD) in the Ministry of Finance collects data and manages\
  \ the central register on granted State aid and de minimis aid reported by the grantors\
  \ - line ministries, agencies, funds, municipalities.The Ministry of Finance provides\
  \ data on already granted State aid and de minimis aid to the grantors, but not\
  \ to the grantees, as this is not feasible given the number of grantees and the\
  \ limited staffing capacity of the SAMD.The Ministry of Finance also provides data\
  \ on the State aid and de minimis aid granted to the grantors, but not to the grantees.\
  \ The Ministry is aware of the importance of the availability of this information\
  \ for the beneficiaries themselves and has therefore some time ago started to develop\
  \ a web-based application that would be accessible to the entire public and whose\
  \ purpose is, inter alia, to provide beneficiaries with access to information on\
  \ State and de minimis aid granted. The project is in the process of resolving the\
  \ access of external users to the web application (for security reasons). Until\
  \ the web application is ready for use, recipients are invited to contact their\
  \ accounting department for information on State aid and de minimis aid received.\
  \ Whether the aid is de minimis or State aid is also indicated on any contract they\
  \ have concluded with the State or another public institution. It was pointed out\
  \ that the difficulties in verifying the data arise in particular in the case of\
  \ associated enterprises. It was assumed that a single undertaking as defined in\
  \ Article 2(2) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on\
  \ the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the\
  \ European Union to de minimis aid (OJ L 352, 24.12.2013, p. 1) was meant. In this\
  \ respect, it should be noted that it is not for the potential recipient to check\
  \ which aid has been received by other undertakings forming a single undertaking\
  \ with it. However, it is for the potential recipient to provide the de minimis\
  \ donor with a declaration listing all the undertakings forming a single undertaking\
  \ with it. However, only the verification of the aid granted to other undertakings\
  \ forming a single undertaking with the potential recipient is carried out by the\
  \ grantor.As regards the initiative to harmonise the forms sent by the grantors\
  \ of de minimis aid to potential recipients for completion, we would like to clarify\
  \ that the Ministry of Finance will liaise with the grantors of de minimis aid and\
  \ will work with them to prepare a single form for the recipients, which will also\
  \ be published on our website.Reply from the Public Agency SPIRIT:With regard to\
  \ the initiative for administrative relief, we would like to inform you that the\
  \ Public Agency SPIRIT uses a single form for the purpose of obtaining information\
  \ on de minimis aid in the public calls for tenders carried out by the Agency. If\
  \ in the past, in one of the calls for tenders, a form was used which differed from\
  \ the forms used in the other calls for tenders, this was an exception to the rule.\
  \ In the form, the public agency requires the applicant to provide information both\
  \ for its own undertaking and for any related undertakings. Commission Regulation\
  \ (EU) No 1407/2013 provides that the sum of the de minimis aid granted in all related\
  \ undertakings is to be taken into account and the Agency cannot obtain this information\
  \ from public databases. On the basis of the information provided by the applicants\
  \ on the form, the Agency will ask the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia\
  \ for information on the amount of de minimis aid for each applicant.We support\
  \ the proposal to harmonise the forms between ministries and agencies, but this\
  \ is beyond the powers of a public agency. SPIRIT will ensure internally that the\
  \ same form is used for obtaining de minimis aid information for all calls for tenders.\r\
  \n "
Text file: 823.txt
Title: De minimis aid
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=823
