All businesses as well as foundations and associations with business activities can apply for cost support. Cost support may be granted to companies whose main sector was within the scope of the support on 1 June 2020. These sectors eligible for the cost support will be determined in a Government Decree on criteria laid down in the Cost Support Act. Limiting the eligible sectors is one way of targeting the cost support specifically at those companies which are adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The list of eligible sectors>
Even if the company’s main sector is not eligible under the Government Decree, cost support may be granted to it on discretionary grounds. In this case, the company must separately prove in its application that the reduction in its turnover has resulted from particularly weighty reasons associated with the pandemic. For example, the impacts of regulations issued or restrictions imposed by the authorities can be regarded as criteria for granting discretionary support.
Please note that, in order to be eligible, the company must also meet the other criteria for receiving support.
Cost support cannot be granted to primary production in agriculture, fisheries and the aquaculture sector, however. These sectors are not eligible for support even on discretionary criteria, as separate State aid rules within the remit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are applied to them.