{"id":182579,"date":"2026-04-03T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2026\/04\/con-misura-simest-approvata-oggi-in-cdm-sostegno-alle-aziende-esportatrici-colpite-dalla-crisi-nel-golfo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:10:31","slug":"con-misura-simest-approvata-oggi-in-cdm-sostegno-alle-aziende-esportatrici-colpite-dalla-crisi-nel-golfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2026\/04\/con-misura-simest-approvata-oggi-in-cdm-sostegno-alle-aziende-esportatrici-colpite-dalla-crisi-nel-golfo\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMEST measure adopted today by the Council of Ministers to support exporting companies affected by the Gulf crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The measures contained in the draft decree-law &#8220;Urgent provisions on oil prices related to the international market crises, as well as in favour of companies,&#8221; adopted today by the Council of Ministers, includes a new SIMEST measure to support exporting companies, drawing on resources from Fund 394\/81.<\/p>\n<p>With the aim of mitigating the negative impact of the economic consequences of the Persian Gulf crisis on the national production system, the measure dedicated to energy-intensive companies, active from March 2025 as part of the &#8220;Ecological or Digital Transition&#8221; instrument, will be extended to all exporting companies and their supply chains. The existing instrument provides subsidized financing of up to \u20ac5 million per requesting \u00a0company, at a minimum interest rate of 0.3%, on favourable terms, such as up to 90% of the financing for capital strengthening.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the new provisions adopted today, the measure will be strengthened by increasing the non-repayable grant to 20%, with the possibility of increasing it to 30% for small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Further incentives are planned, which will be adopted by the Incentives Committee, the inter-Ministerial body that runs the 394\/81 Fund. These include extending the duration of financing from 6 to 8 years, increasing the amount that can be disbursed in advance from 25% to 50% to ensure greater liquidity, and raising the limit for capital increases or shareholder loans from \u20ac800,000 to \u20ac1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Italian companies \u2013 which have been negatively affected by rising energy costs or a decrease in turnover or cash flow \u2013 will be able to benefit from a total allocation of \u20ac800 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The measures contained in the draft decree-law &#8220;Urgent provisions on oil prices related to the international market crises, as well as in favour of companies,&#8221; adopted today by the Council of Ministers, includes a new SIMEST measure to support exporting companies, drawing on resources from Fund 394\/81. With the aim of mitigating the negative impact [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-182579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-diplomazia-economica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182581,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182579\/revisions\/182581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}