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Relocation: five key sectors eligible for grants

2020-08-31T08:34:15.292Z


As of Monday, Bpifrance, in conjunction with Bercy, is hosting a space on its portal that will allow companies to obtain a subsidy for their industrial relocation projects.


French industrial policy is taking shape. To revive the economy weakened by the Covid-19 crisis and prepare for the future, the Ministry of the Economy wishes to reconnect with industrial sovereignty by investing in sectors with high added value.

Read also: Industry: Emmanuel Macron announces 15 billion euros for innovation and relocations

Relocations are at the heart of the French 100 billion euro recovery plan presented this Thursday by the Castex government. This plan, which will be backed by the State budget for 2021, thus includes a component of 1 billion euros to facilitate relocations and offer attractive offers on the global market.

Five sectors of the future

Guest of the morning of BFM Business, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, in charge of Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher detailed one of the key devices of Bercy. As of Monday, the Public Investment Bank (Bpifrance), in conjunction with Bercy, is hosting a space that will allow companies to obtain a subsidy for their industrial relocation projects. " I can tell you today that BPI (the public investment bank, Editor's note) welcomes on its portal all the relocation projects that companies can propose ", explains the minister. All the relocation projects concern five “ sectors of the future ”: agro-food (diversification of supplies, creation of production capacities), health, electronics, critical inputs for industry such as chemicals, principles active for drugs, the mobile industry, 5G, connected objects.

Concretely, companies which so wish can respond to a call for tenders on the site and submit their relocation projects in order to obtain subsidies. If you have a relocation project, if you are able to re-internalize part of the activity of your foreign subcontractors in your factory (...) then you can submit a project file as soon as it is in these five sectors. We distributed the specifications in August to allow companies to prepare, ”said the Minister.

Agnès Pannier-Runacher also announced that a hydrogen plan will be unveiled by the government in the coming days.

Source: lefigaro

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