Ida-Viru SME grants add project management, owner supervision as eligible costs

Small and medium-sized enterprises investing in Ida-Viru countyRiigiteataja under the Just Transition Fund measure 21.6.1.5Riigiteataja can now claim two new categories of eligible activity: project management (projektijuhtimine) and owner supervision (omanikujärelevalve)Riigiteataja. The October 2026 amendments add them to the eligible-activity listRiigiteataja in § 6(3) as points 8¹ and 10, with matching cost-eligibility rules: project-management staff costs calculated under § 16(1)(1) and (4) of the general implementing regulation (Vabariigi Valitsuse 12. mai 2022. a määrus nr 55, ühendmäärus) or a purchased service, and owner supervision as a purchased serviceRiigiteataja. Grants under the scheme run from 30,000 to 3,000,000 euros per project.Riigiteataja

Three existing activities move into the regional-aid column.Riigiteataja Grid connection work (point 5), design (projekteerimine, point 9) and owner supervision (point 10) now sit alongside machinery and equipment (point 1) and real-estate purchase, construction and works (point 1¹) as activities that may be funded either as investment regional aid under Article 14 of the general block exemption regulation (Euroopa Komisjoni määrus (EL) 651/2014) or as de minimis aid under Commission Regulation (EL) 2023/2831 (VTA määrus)Riigiteataja. The preparatory activities in points 6 to 8¹ — the “ei kahjusta oluliselt” assessment, the climate-proofing assessment, consultancy and feasibility work, and project management — remain de minimis aid onlyRiigiteataja, and together they may not exceed ten per cent of the investment's eligible cost.Riigiteataja

Maximum aid intensities follow the activity's legal basis. Where aid is granted under the block exemption, the ceiling is 45 per cent of eligible costs for micro and small enterprises and 35 per cent for medium-sized enterprises for the machinery, real-estate, product-development, grid-connection, design and owner-supervision activities (points 1, 1¹, 2, 5, 9 and 10), and 50 per cent for intellectual-property protection and process and organisational innovation (points 3 and 4)Riigiteataja.Riigiteataja Where aid is granted as de minimis, the ceiling is 80 per cent of eligible costs for any listed activity.Riigiteataja Where one activity is supported under both regulations, the ceiling in the applicable block-exemption article governs.Riigiteataja

Beneficiaries gain an explicit right to have the grant decision amended.Riigiteataja Where implementation shows that project activities must change, the beneficiary may request an amendmentRiigiteataja, provided the change alters neither the aid amounts by state-aid type nor the applicable aid intensitiesRiigiteataja; the grant amount may be increased only for aid granted as de minimisRiigiteataja, within that regulation's conditions and ceilings. The implementing agency, Ettevõtluse ja Innovatsiooni Sihtasutus, amends decisions under the conditions and procedure of § 12 of the general implementing regulationRiigiteataja, and may still refuse a change that would jeopardise the expected results or completion of the project activities within the eligibility period.

The October 2026 amendments apply retroactively from 16 June 2023Riigiteataja, so they reach projects approved since the scheme openedRiigiteataja. Legal basis: Ida-Virumaa väike- ja keskmise suurusega ettevõtjate investeeringute toetamise tingimused ja kord as amended, applying konkurentsiseadus §§ 33 and 342, Euroopa Komisjoni määrus (EL) 651/2014 artikkel 14, komisjoni määrus (EL) 2023/2831 and Vabariigi Valitsuse 12. mai 2022. a määrus nr 55.