Article 3
Eligible business activities - aided expenditures
Aided expenditures:
(i). The construction, expansion and modernisation of industrial
plants, special and auxiliary building fa-cilities, as well as expenditures
for the landscaping of the surrounding area.
(ii). The purchase and installation of new modern machinery and
other equipment. The payments under the lease of new modern machinery
and other equip-ment.
(iii). The purchase and installation of new systems for the process
automation and computerisation, in-cluding the expenditure for the
purchase of the neces-sary software and for staff training at the
installation stage.
(iv). Expenditures for studies concerning the intro-duction, development
and implementation of modern technology, know-how, and modern methods.
(v). Expenditures for the establishment, expansion and modernisation
of laboratories of applied energy research.
(vi). The purchase of new means of transportation for the handling
of materials and products within the greater plant area. The purchase
of new means of transportation for the mass transportation of person-nel.
The purchase and installation of modern equip-ment and the construction
of facilities for the handling of materials and products.
(vii). The construction of new workers' homes, nurs-eries, buildings
or installations, as well as the pur-chase and installation of equipment
intended for the housing, recreation or catering of the undertaking's
employees, as well as staff training rooms, provided that they shall
be constructed in the area where the undertaking is located.
(viii). Expenditures for investments concerning the protection of
the environment, the restriction of ground, underground, water and
air pollution, the res-toration of the natural environment and water
recy-cling.
(ix). Expenditures for the construction of the main warm water or
steam transportation network to the consumer, with reference to
undertakings producing power in the form of warm water or steam.
(x). Expenditures for investments concerning the utilisation of
renewable sources of energy, substitution of gas fuels for liquid
fuels or electricity, treated refuse from domestic industries, renewable
sources of en-ergy, recovery of lost heat, as well as electricity
and heat co-production. Furthermore, expenditures for in-vestments
concerning energy saving, provided that the investment shall not
pertain to manufacturing equipment but rather to driving/operating
equipment and installations of the plant, and that a decrease of
at least 10% in energy consumption shall result from such investment.
c. Undertakings (laboratories) of applied industrial, energy, mining,
agricultural, livestock, forestry and fish farming research. Furthermore,
technology devel-oping and industrial design undertakings.
Aided expenditures:
(i). The construction, expansion and modernisation of building
facilities, special and auxiliary, as well as expenditures for the
landscaping of the surrounding area.
(ii). The purchase of areas for their housing, in stan-dardised
craft industry buildings located in Industrial Estates, Industrial
and Business Estates, Craft Indus-try Parks, technopolises, or technology
parks.
(iii). The purchase and installation of new modern machinery and
other equipment. The payments under the lease of new modern machinery
and other equip-ment.
(iv). The purchase and installation of new systems for the process
automation and computerisation, in-cluding the expenditure for the
purchase of the neces-sary software and for staff training at the
installation stage.
(v). Expenditures for studies concerning the intro-duction, development
and implementation of modern technology, know-how, and modern methods.
(vi). The purchase of equipment and the construc-tion of facilities
for handling of materials.
d. Undertakings providing of state-of-the-art techno-logical services,
on condition that these undertakings belong to the sectors of information
technology, tour-ism, research, as well as technological support
of craft industry and industrial activities.
