Yesterday, Friday, December 22, 2023, the payment of the advance against the grant to the affected businesses as part of the state aid from the floods that occurred in September in Thessaly.

As pointed out by Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protectionthis is an advance payment corresponding to half of the intended grant to the affected companies and is the highest level of advance payment granted under State aid.

The grant is set at 70% of the estimated damage, (the highest percentage set to date for a grant after a natural disaster), resulting in half of the grant as an advance corresponding to 35%.

In particular, they were paid on Friday

– 5,018,660.46 euros to 151 businesses of the Larissa Regional Unit,

– 2,187,076.69 euros to 162 businesses of the Karditsa Regional Unit,

– 1,615,350.78 euros to 236 businesses of the Trikala Regional Unit,

– 1,838,709.20 euros to 164 businesses of the Magnesia Regional Unit,

for which the damage assessment by the state aid committees has been completed.

Cumulatively, 10.7 million euros were paid to 713 businesses affected by the unprecedented flooding phenomenon that hit Thessaly.

The grant concerns damage to business assets, in particular damage to mechanical equipment, raw materials, goods and damaged vehicles of the business. Thus, with an advance payment, businesses receive 50% of the grant, with the remainder to be paid after the completion of the control of disbursement documents that will be submitted to the General Secretariat for Natural Disaster Recovery and State Aid.

Advance payments both to businesses and to agricultural holdings, in the context of state aid, will continue depending on the flow of data and the progress of the completion of the work of the State Aid Committees of the Region of Thessaly