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Rules for the provision of state grants for the implementation of new business ideas within the framework of the State Business Support and Development Program "Business Roadmap-2025"
Chapter 1. General provisions
These Rules for the provision of state grants for the implementation of new business ideas within the framework of the State Business Support and Development Program "Business Roadmap-2025" (hereinafter referred to as the Rules for the Provision of state Grants) have been developed in accordance with the Entrepreneurial Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 29, 2015 and define the conditions and mechanism for the provision of state grants to small businesses for the implementation of new business ideas.
The provision of state grants is carried out within the framework of the second direction of the State Business Support and Development Program "Business Roadmap-2025", approved by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 24, 2019 No. 968 (hereinafter referred to as the Program) "Sectoral support for entrepreneurs/subjects of industrial and innovative activities operating in priority sectors of the economy".
State grants for the implementation of new business ideas are provided to small business entities, including aspiring young entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, free of charge in priority sectors of the economy, according to Annex 2 to the Program.
State grants are provided by the state through the regional coordinators of the Program based on the results of competitions held to select applications from small businesses for the provision of state grants. At the same time, a prerequisite for participation in the competition for a state grant is the availability of a certificate of training components within the framework of the Program.
Financing of support measures in the form of grants is carried out at the expense of the republican and local budgets. In order to provide state grants, funds from the republican and local budgets are transferred by the authorized body to the regional coordinator of the Program.
In order to implement the Program, at least 20% of the allocated funds are allocated for the provision of state grants to small businesses belonging to socially vulnerable segments of the population.
6-1. The conditions and requirements for the use of the subsidy information system apply to the relations that arose after the conclusion of the relevant agreement between the regional coordinator of the Program and the service provider.
Footnote. The Rules are supplemented by paragraph 6-1 in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 30.07.2020 No. 491.
6-2. Grant agreements effective on the date of entry into force of these Rules and registered in the subsidy information system are subject to financing. The translation of paper grant agreements into electronic format and their registration in the subsidy information system are carried out by the regional coordinator of the Program and the service provider within two months from the date of entry into force of these Rules for the Provision of State Grants.
Footnote. The Rules are supplemented by paragraph 6-2 in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 30.07.2020 No. 491.
The services of the financial agency are paid by the authorized body at the expense of the republican budget.
Chapter 2. Terms and definitions
The following terms and definitions are used in these Rules for the Provision of State Grants:
1) subsidy information system is an organizationally ordered set of information and communication technologies, service personnel and technical documentation designed to provide services for the implementation of state support processes, providing the opportunity to interact with the e–government web portal, register an application, as well as process it by automatically checking the application for compliance with the conditions for providing state support;
2) socially vulnerable segments of the population – categories of citizens defined by Article 68 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 16, 1997 "On Housing relations";
3) regional coordinator of the Program – a structural subdivision of the local executive body, determined by the akim of the region (capital, cities of republican significance), responsible for the implementation of the Program at the regional level (capital, cities of republican significance);
4) a business project is an entrepreneur's plan that reveals the possibility of creating his own business (production of goods, performance of works, provision of services), made in the form of a description, calculations, forecasts, and also containing the timing of the project and co-financing with his own funds (cash, movable/immovable property participating in the business project) of the entrepreneur at the level of at least 10 % of the volume of the state grant provided and the creation of new jobs;
5) a new business idea is an entrepreneurial initiative aimed at implementing a specific project involving the release of goods, the provision of services, the performance of work using materials, technologies and methods not previously used in the implementation of such projects (new business ideas also include projects involving the release of goods, the provision of services, the performance of work, not implemented in a specific locality or rural district when passing the competition);
6) entrepreneur – a small business entity, including an aspiring young entrepreneur, an aspiring entrepreneur;
7) a comprehensive business license (franchising) is an entrepreneurial activity in which the rightholder of a set of exclusive rights provides it for use on a reimbursable basis to another person;
8) the competition commission is a collegial advisory body with the participation of representatives of local executive bodies, public associations, scientific and educational institutions, industry experts, regional mass media, consisting of at least 10 (ten) people (the chairman of the competition commission may not be a representative of local executive bodies);
9) financial agency – joint stock company "Entrepreneurship Development Fund "Damu";
10) application – an application in paper or electronic form with the attachment of the necessary documents in accordance with the requirements of these Rules for the provision of state grants;
11) authorized body – authorized body for entrepreneurship;
12) grant agreement – a tripartite agreement in the form approved by the authorized body for entrepreneurship, concluded on the web portal of the subsidy information system (hereinafter referred to as the web portal) in electronic form between the regional coordinator of the Program, a financial agency and a small business entity, under the terms of which the entrepreneur is granted a targeted grant for the implementation of new business projects.ideas;
13) an aspiring entrepreneur is an entrepreneur whose state registration period as an individual entrepreneur or legal entity is less than 3 (three) years at the time of applying to the regional coordinator of the Program for receiving a state grant (affiliation of an aspiring entrepreneur with existing entrepreneurs is allowed, provided that a new type of activity is created that differs from the current activities of an existing affiliated entrepreneur);
14) an aspiring young entrepreneur is an entrepreneur under the age of 29 (inclusive), whose state registration period as an individual entrepreneur is less than 3 (three) years at the time of applying to the regional coordinator of the Program to receive a state grant (the age is determined on the date of the application of the aspiring individual entrepreneur to the regional coordinator of the Program, the affiliation of a young beginner is allowed an entrepreneur with existing entrepreneurs, subject to the creation of a new type of activity, different from the current activities of the current affiliated entrepreneur);
15) excluded by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 30.07.2020 No. 491;
16) excluded by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 30.07.2020 No. 491;
17) application for the issuance of a tranche – an application for the transfer of a state grant or part of it to the entrepreneur's bank account;
18) web portal – an Internet resource hosted on the Internet that provides access to the subsidy information system;
19) personal account – personal web page of the user (entrepreneur, authorized body, national institute, financial agency, regional coordinator of the Program, competition commission) in the register;
20) personal account – an account opened in the subsidy information system, reflecting information about the user registered in the registry, necessary for his identification (authentication) and providing access to his personal data and settings;
21) service provider – a person providing access to the subsidy information system and its support as the owner, which is determined by the regional coordinator of the Program in accordance with the legislation on public procurement;
22) electronic register of applications (hereinafter referred to as the register) – a set of information about applications, as well as users and other information reflected in the subsidy information system;
23) the "electronic government" web portal is an information system that represents a single window of access to all consolidated government information, including the regulatory framework, and public services, services for issuing technical conditions for connection to the networks of natural monopolies and services of quasi-public sector entities provided in electronic form;