In total, they will be 2.4 million euros that the La Rioja Economic Development Agency (ADER) will devote in full to cover different initiatives and programs that walk to favor both the circular economy as energy transitionin addition to guaranteeing the security in the labor environments of the companies of the Rioja community.
A budget that is part of the 2025 annuity of the Strategic Subsidies Plan (PES) and managed by the new unit of energy and environment of this public entity of the Rioja government.
In the first case, in relation to circular economy and energy transition programs, the Promotion and rational and efficient use of energy and renewable energy sources. In this case, the commitment to the hydrogenas well as the implementation of measures to increase the level of environmental protection and decarbonization in La Rioja companies.
ADER will invest more than two million euros in improving the energy and occupational safety transition
The Rioja Economic Development Agency (ADER) It will allocate 2.4 million euros To finance projects that favor the circular economy and energy transition, as well as the security in the work environments of the Riojan companies.
The amount will be structured in two aid calls that the ADER will publish on Wednesday, and whose content the Governing Council has been informed on Tuesday, as reported by its spokesman, Alfonso Domínguez, in the informative wheel after the Council.
Both calls are included in the 2025 annuity of the Strategic Subsidies Plan (PES) and managed by the new Energy and Environment Unit of the ADER.
Subsidies in the field of circular economy and energy transition seek to promote transition to a circular economy, The rational and efficient use of energy and renewable energy sourcesincluding hydrogen, and the implementation of measures to increase the level of environmental protection and decarbonization in La Rioja companies, Dominguez said.
Programs aimed at increasing environmental protection are subsidable; to implement savings and energy efficiency measures both in buildings and in other facilities; to increase the use of energies from renewable sources of hydrogen and high efficiency cogeneration; to promote the transition to a circular economy or environmental studies that are directly linked to investments.
The intensities of these aids range from the 17% in energy efficiency programs in buildings and others; 22% for environmental protection; 30% for renewable energies; 45% for circular economy projects; and up to 60% for environmental studies.
In all cases, 5% will be prioritized if it is a small business, in addition to an additional 5% in energy efficiency programs and renewable energy co -financed with FEDER funds. The minimum investment to access these subsidies is 6,000 euros or 2,000 euros if only an environmental study linked to investments is presented.
Safe withdrawal of companies
Likewise, the security and equality innovation check seeks to support SMEs and self -employed that develop actions from Improvement of labor environments in the fields of security and equality. This line will subsidize with 50% the investment of height security elements that comply with European regulations, and include, for the first time, the acquisition of fixed networks and access platforms.
The cost of implantation of equality plans in companies with less than 50 workers is another of the concepts contemplated.
These equal plans, which the ADER will finance in 80%, must be registered in the Registry of Collective Agreements, collective work agreements and equal plans of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja (Regcon) and start up within a maximum period of six months. As a novelty in this line, a new program for the Safe withdrawal of asbestos, with 100%aid, taking into account some maximum costs.
The costs of the withdrawal of fiber cement covers, drums, deposits or downspouts will be subsidized, and that all this work is carried out by a specialized company and registered in the Registry of Companies at risk of asbestos, according to a work plan previously approved by the competent labor authority in La Rioja. Special decontamination equipment used by said company may also be subsidized.
These calls integrate one of the eight areas of action collected in the Strategic Subsidies Plan of the ADER 2025-2027, the one regarding energy, the environment and the improvement of labor environments. EFE / ECOTICIAS.com