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Compensation scheme for energy-intensive businesses resumed

by Magdalena Skurowska

17 August 2023

The objective of the new scheme named “Aid for energy-intensive sectors due to prices of natural gas and electricity in 2023” is to mitigate the adverse consequences of the rising prices of electricity and natural gas for the extraction and industrial processing businesses.

The scheme's budget amounts to 5.5 billion zloty, and the aid amount will depend on the applicant’s costs incurred for natural gas and electricity in 2023.

Call for applications for non-refundable financial aid was scheduled to begin in August 2023 and was supposed to last two weeks. However, the start date has been postponed and it still not known yet. It should be in fall (or in the last quarter) of 2023.

Eligible entities

We can expect this newest call for applications to extend to a much wider audience of eligible entities. They potentially include all organisations in the extraction and industrial production business, regardless of the exact sector.

Aid will be available to energy-intensive businesses:

whose costs of electricity and natural gas accounted for at least 3% of their production output sold in 2021, and
which generate at least 50% of their revenues or output from operations in one or more sub-classes of the Polish Classification of Activities (PCA) section B (mining and extraction) and section C (industrial processing).

Basic support

The basic support will be offered to energy-intensive businesses if they meet the above criteria.

The aid will be capped at 50% of eligible costs – maximum 4 million euro for all associated enterprises in Poland, including the aid granted under this scheme in 2022.

Applications for aid will have to be submitted for 2 periods – the first and the second half-year of 2023 through calls scheduled for August 2023 and February 2024.

Increased support

The increased support will be offered to businesses which:

are energy-intensive and meet the above conditions, and additionally their dominant business must be in sectors particularly prone to lose competitive edge within specific sub-classes of the Polish Classification of Activities or specific PRODCOM product codes; these include without limitation mining, production of sugar, yarn, paper, chemicals, plastics, glass, tiles, cement, steel products, aluminium and other non-ferrous metals;
show a negative EBITDA in 2023 or EBITDA that is lower by at least 40% compared to 2021;
submit a plan to reduce energy consumption until 31 March 2024 that includes investments accounting for at least 30% of the granted aid.

The aid will be capped at 80% of eligible costs – maximum 40 million euro for all associated enterprises in Poland, or 100 million euro if we include the aid granted under this scheme in 2022.

The applications for aid will have to be filed in respect of the entire 2023 in the next, and the only, call which is scheduled for August 2023.

As the application deadline will be announced with little notice and the application has to include, among other things, an auditor’s report on attestation services, we encourage you to check if your company is eligible for aid as soon as possible.

Rödl & Partner offers comprehensive advice on the whole process and can prepare complete application documents for the scheme. You are welcome to contact us.

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