AENOR Project Trust is a set of solutions that facilitate and place companies' projects in the best conditions for accessing financing funds. To achieve this, it offers companies certifications, training and specialist support so that their projects are in the best conditions to obtain the funds they apply for.
The Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan is a great opportunity for Spanish companies. The European Commission's Next Generation EU recovery funds are to help repair the damage brought about by the pandemic, building on the foundations needed to establish long-term competitiveness.
For more than 30 years, AENOR has been the entity supporting Spanish organisations and society in the face of their major challenges. Faced with the current challenge of economic recovery and reactivation, AENOR Project Trust was created to support organisations that need to generate confidence in the projects they submit to the Plan.
The objective is to build confidence with the awarding authorities and to lend credibility to demonstrate technical solvency that makes it easier for agencies to assess, award funding and justify the alignment of a project with strategic axes. It will also provide support for possible future controls, particularly in the EU, reflecting the project's development in accordance with established criteria.
Constantly updated, the solutions offered by AENOR are:
1. SOLUTIONS THAT RESPOND TO SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF THE CALLS:
2. SOLUTIONS THAT BOOST AND SUPPORT PROJECT ELIGIBILITY:
And their lever and component policies, as defined in the RTRP.
3. SOLUTIONS FROM THE AENOR CATALOGUE THAT HELP JUSTIFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF CALLS:
We also have:
The AENOR Project Trust resources include two courses:
To ensure proper management, a comprehensive control and audit system will be established. In this regard, the Recovery Plan states that its design rests on two pillars. On the one hand, a system different from that used for the structural funds and other European funds, the objective of which is to control the objectives identified and, where applicable, correct irregularities. And, on the other hand, the audit systems in the Public Administrations, although reinforcing and adapting their approach.
To do this, the control system will be deployed at three different levels: level 1, internal control of the implementing body; level 2, the independent body's internal control; and 3, the regime of national ex-post audits and controls. The General Comptroller of the State Administration (IGAE) is the Control Authority for the Recovery Mechanism in accordance with the provisions of article 21 of Royal Decree-Law 36/2020.
The total sum requested by Spain amounts to €140,000 million, of which €70,000 are direct investments (based on specific projects) and the rest are loans.
The €70,000 million investments are articulated in two mechanisms: "Recovery and Resilience" (MRR), which is the most important, is the core of the Recovery Fund and has around €60,000 million earmarked for Spain and the React EU mechanism, with €12,000 million, the aim of which is to promote the ecological, digital and resilient recovery of the economy.
Spain will concentrate its investment mobilisation effort into the first three years (2021-23) to maximise its impact on the rapid reconstruction of the economy with plans that contribute to overcoming the crisis caused by coronavirus. Subsequently, the remaining €70,000 million in loans will be requested to complement the financing of ongoing projects.
The measures included in the plans and budgets are structured around four cross-cutting axes: ecological transition, digital transformation, social and territorial cohesion and gender equality. In turn, these four axes are projected into ten leverage policies that affect different areas of economic activity.
These levers are implemented in a total of thirty components that articulate investment and reform programmes. In total, the Plan includes up to 212 measures, of which 110 are investments and 102 reforms.
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July-August 2022 - Nº 382
AENOR has obtained two new accreditations from the Spanish Accreditation Body (ENAC), which are part of the solutions that make up the AENOR Project Trust to help companies access the European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
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Two ENAC accreditations enhance the solutions of AENOR Project Trust to help companies access the Next Generation EU funds.
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