Eligible applicants must cumulatively meet the following conditions:

a) have the status of small, medium or micro-enterprises (SMEs). The quality must exist both on the date of submitting the project application and on the date of signing the financing contract;

b) are established no later than 31.12.2021;

c) did not have their activity interrupted/suspended in 2022;

d) they recorded an operating profit (>0) in 2022;

e) undertakes to bear from its own resources the co-financing provided for in the terms of this guide;

f) does not carry out activities with erotic or obscene products, activities in the field of gambling, as well as those that contravene public order and/or legal provisions in force;

g) do not own web pages that contain acts or materials of an obscene character, defined according to Law 196/2003, republished with subsequent amendments and additions

h) do not fall into the category of "enterprises in difficulty", in 2022, as defined in this guide;

i) is not in a state of bankruptcy, judicial reorganization, dissolution, liquidation or temporary suspension of activity or is not in similar situations following a
procedures of the same nature provided for by national legislation or regulations;

j) they are not the subject of a recovery order, following a decision regarding the declaration of state aid as illegal and/or incompatible with the common market.

k) are not related to the tobacco industry (production, distribution, processing and trade);

l) do not provide for cloning for reproductive purposes; does not carry out activities intended to modify the genetic heritage of the human being that could make such hereditary changes, activities to create human embryos exclusively for the purpose of research or for the purpose of obtaining stem cells, including by means of nuclear transfer of somatic cells;

m) does not carry out gambling activities (production, construction, distribution, processing, trade or related software);

n) does not carry out sex trade;

o) does not involve live animals for experimental and scientific purposes to the extent that compliance with the "Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes" cannot be guaranteed;

p) does not carry out real estate development or financial activities, such as the purchase or trading of financial instruments.

q) does not carry out activities related to exploitation/extraction, processing, distribution, storage or burning of solid fossil fuels and oil, as well as investments related to gas extraction.

r) requests de minimis aid, the value of which falls within the limits set out in this guide.

s) undertakes to reach at least 6 of the digital intensity criteria at the end of the project implementation, according to the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), respectively to become an enterprise:

i. where more than 50% of the employees use computers with Internet access for business purposes (a different user for each employee using the computer);

ii. that uses an ERP software package to share information between different business functional areas;

iii. which has a contracted maximum download speed of the fastest landline internet connection of at least 30 Mb/s;

iv. where online sales represented more than 1% of total turnover and web sales to private consumers (B2C) more than 10% of web sales (relative to the project submission period);

v. uses IoT;

vi. uses at least one social network (businesses that use networks are considered to have a user profile, account or user license depending on the requirements and type of social media; businesses that pay exclusively for posting advertisements (banner ads) either directly to the owner of the social network (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or indirectly through companies that provide online services for the automatic posting of advertising messages on social networks (e.g. SoKule, etc.) are excluded for this criterion);

are you coming. use CRM;

viii. purchase sophisticated or intermediate cloud computing services (is a model that allows anytime, convenient and/or on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources – e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications and services – that can be rapidly provisioned and launched with minimal management effort or interaction from a service provider There are three service models of cloud computing services: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS));

ix. uses AI technology;

x. purchase cloud computing services used on the Internet;

xi. makes e-commerce sales of at least 1% of total sales (in e-commerce sales of goods or services, the order is placed through websites, applications or EDI1 messages through methods specially designed to receive orders. Payment can done online or offline. E-commerce does not include written orders by e-mail);

xii. uses two or more social networks.

t) On the date of signing the financing contract, the financing applicant has no unpaid net payment obligations to the state budget and the local budget respectively in the last calendar year and has no facts entered in the tax file.

Beneficiaries will present at the last Transfer Request an IT Technical Report prepared by an independent auditor/entity whose main field of activity is consulting in information technology and which will certify that the implementation of the project has led to the fulfillment of the DESI criteria assumed by the project.

If the IT Technical Report does not certify that at least 6 DESI criteria have been met, following the implementation of the digitization project, the transfer request will not be accepted for payment.