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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.

To protect the environment.
a. the repayment of investment loans or resources from the issue of bonds for the financing of the following investments goals:
- environmental protection,
- introduction of new technical or technological solutions from research and development activities.

To develop the fisheries sector.
3. Policy objective and/or purpose of the subsidy
Development of the fisheries sector including quality improvement of produced goods, sanitary and veterinary arrangements on fishing vessels, as well as restructuring of plants involved in inland fisheries branch.

To ensure energy security and protect the environment.
3. Policy objective and /or purpose of the subsidy
-ensuring energy security of the country by satisfying the domestic demand for hard coal, including utilization of coal for production of liquid and gaseous fuels,
-utilization of modern technologies in the hard coal mining sector to improve price competitiveness, occupational safety, environmental protection and to create the basis for technological and scientific development.

To promote environmentally friendly technologies.
3. Policy objective and/or purpose of the subsidy
According to the Polish regulations the fuel producers are obligated to implement the National Indicative Target arising from the Act of 25 August 2006 on biocomponents and liquid biofuels, which means in practice introduction of a set proportion of biofuels to the market. In order to meet this obligatory targets producers have to sell biofuels and fuels with biocomponents at prices which are competitive when compared with oil fuels. Exemptions from excise duty were established in order to recompensate fuel producers costs connected with blending biocomponents with oil fuels.