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To improve environmental sustainability.
3. Policy objective
The aim of this incentive is to provide grants to SMEs in all sectors by part-financing costs incurred for the acquisition of equipment and services incurred for the implementation of eco-innovation projects intended to improve environmental sustainability.
Assistance is calculated in reference to:
A. Consultancy
Costs incurred for the attainment of recognised environmental certification such as EMAS, ISO, Eco-Label and other standards recognised by the Malta Standards Authority (MSA). Such costs may include:
1. Environmental Audits; and
2. Environmental Consultancy.
B. Plant, Machinery and Equipment
Costs incurred to achieve a better environment in relation to:
1. Engineering services required to modify existing plant, machinery and equipment;
2. Acquisition on new machinery and equipment.
C. Licensing and Certification
Costs incurred for the acquisition of:
1. A licence to utilise technology and intellectual property required to achieve a better environmental performance;
2. Environmental certification such as EMAS, ISO, Eco-Label and other standards recognised by the MSA.
Consultancy or services must be subcontracted and must not be of a continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the usual operating costs of the undertaking, such as routine tax consultancy services, regular legal services, or advertising.
Costs for replacing or reconditioning existing equipment are ineligible.
Assistance under this scheme cannot be granted to projects addressing environmental compliance.

To manage waste and promote environmental solutions.
3. Policy objective
The Exploratory Award FP7 Scheme aims to assist micros and SMEs to increase their research and development linkages with research performers in the European Union and third country partners. Assistance is provided for the preparation and submission of proposals for the European Union's Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7).
The assistance provided by this support measure consists in financing 75% of the total eligible costs of the preparatory proposal relating to:
1. Feasibility check (desk studies, literature survey, risk analysis and to determine if the project is realisable);
2. Research and development for the compilation of the EU project;
3. Market analysis to assess possible exploitation;
4. Novel ty verification (including a world-wide patent search);
5. Search for partners together with consortium-building activities and call info days;
6. Preparatory meetings with potential partners for the EU Project;
7. Detailed EU project planning;
8. EU proposal writing.
6. To whom and how the subsidy is paid
Undertakings eligible for assistance under this aid scheme are SMEs. Assistance covers one or more of the areas identified below:
1. Manufacturing: production, improvement processing;
2. Repair, preservation, improvement or maintenance of goods, materials, commodities, equipment, engines, plant and machinery, pleasure crafts and yachts, heavy equipment, aircraft;
3. Rendering services to (2) above;
4. ICT development activities, software development and ICT enabled services;
5. Research and development and innovation;
6. Waste treatment and environmental solutions;
7. Biotechnology;
8. Innovative start-ups;
9. Other innovative SMEs proposing innovative projects which are more advanced than those prevailing in the respective industry, in terms of technology, know-how and skills.

To manage waste and promote environmental solutions.
3. Policy objective
The aim of the assistance provided by this aid scheme is to support innovative start-up undertakings that show a potential for job creation and economic growth by part-financing costs incurred during their setting-up phase. A start-up undertaking is an undertaking in its initial five years. In order to benefit from this incentive the undertaking must submit an application within three years of its creation.
6. To whom and how the subsidy is paid
The aid is of a horizontal nature aimed to provide assistance to SMEs during the first two years of operation, that is, during the start-up phase. The aid targets start-up SMEs engaged in the following activities:
1. Manufacturing;
2. ICT development activities, software development, and ICT enabled services. This excludes enterprises engaged in gaming and telecommunications;
3. Research and development and innovation;
4. Waste treatment and environmental solutions;
5. Biotechnology;
6. Other undertakings proposing innovative products, services and process development, which are typically more advanced in terms of technology, know-how and skills than those prevailing in their respective industry.

To manage waste and promote environmental solutions.
3. Policy objective
The aim of this incentive is to support business start-ups at their early stage of development. (...)
6. To whom and how the subsidy is paid
Eligible undertakings under this scheme are small and autonomous undertakings 29 which have been created less than five years ago engaged in the following activities:
1. Manufacturing:
Including repair, preservation, improvement or maintenance of goods, materials, commodities, equipment, engines, plant and machinery, pleasure crafts and yachts, heavy equipment, aircraft; and The rendering of industrial services directly related to above;
2. Information and Communication Technology development activities, software development and ICT enabled services;
3. Research and Development and Innovation;
4. Waste treatment and environmental solutions;
5. Biotechnology;
6. Start-ups proposing innovative products, services and process development, which are typically more advanced than those prevailing in their respective industry, in terms of technology, know-how and skills.

To manage waste and promote environmental solutions.
3. Policy objective
The assistance provided by this aid scheme consists in financing up to 50% of the costs relating to:
1. Consultancy in favour of SMEs: the services shall not be of a continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the undertaking's usual operating costs, such as routine tax consultancy services, regular legal services or advertising 32;
2. First time participation in fairs and exhibitions: the eligible costs shall be the costs incurred for renting, setting up and running the stand for the first participation of an undertaking in any particular fair or exhibition 33.
6. To whom and how the subsidy is paid
Eligible undertakings for assistance under this scheme are micro and SMEs in the manufacturing industry, ICT, waste treatment, environmental solutions and eco-innovations, research and development and innovation, and biotechnology. They must be engaged in the following activities:
1. Manufacturing;
2. Repair, preservation, improvement or maintenance of goods, materials, commodities, equipment, engines, plant and machinery, pleasure crafts and yachts, heavy equipment and aircraft;
3. Rendering of services directly related to (2) above;
4. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development activities, software development and ICT enabled services;
5. Research and development and innovation (RDI);
6. Waste treatment, environmental solutions and eco-innovations;
7. Biotechnology;
8. Start-up undertakings proposing innovative products, services and process development, which are typically more advanced than those prevailing in their respective industry, in terms of technology, know-how and skills.

To promote R&D in energy and biotechnology
3. Policy objective
The aim of the EUREKA R&D Grant is to assist SMEs and large undertakings by providing them with financial support to carry out collaborative research and development projects referred to as Eureka Projects 36 with partners from the Eureka network, with an objective to create products, processes and services in areas of advanced technology as well as projects of innovation, research and technological development 37.
In order to benefit from assistance under this scheme, EUREKA Projects have to be either:
1. Innovative Projects: such projects have ready-to-market results, representing a significant advance in their particular sector; or
2. Cluster Projects: such projects are long-term, strategically significant industrial initiatives. They usually have a large number of participants and aim to develop generic technologies of key importance for European competitiveness, such as in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), energy and biotechnology.
SMEs and large undertakings may benefit from assistance under the EUREKA R&D Grant for costs incurred during the industrial research and experimental development phase of the EUREKA Project. Only costs incurred by undertakings established in Malta may be part-financed.

To promote energy efficient technologies.
3. Policy objectives

The main objective of the scheme is to attenuate the impact of utilities costs and the price-hike of feed on the pig sector in a period when their costs surpassed their income, in a bid to safeguard and improve their competitiveness and keeping consumer prices stable, while the sector implements measures including reducing herd size, improving meat quality, optimising the feed conversion ratio, decreasing carcass weights, increasing sales, promoting the on-farm use of energy efficient technologies and water saving measures, as well as promoting a label of distinction.

To promote advanced environmental technologies.
3. Policy goals
The subsidy is designed to encourage the development and wider application of new advanced environmental technology.

To promote environmental investments.

3. Policy goals
Goal is to stimulate investments in environmental friendly capital equipment made possible by applying a reduction in the tax base, which compensates a part of the costs (MIA) or give an increase in the flexibility of the depreciation of environmental investments (VAMIL).

Policy goals
Goal is to stimulate green investment projects.