The funding envisaged by the programme totals HRK 4.37 billion, with direct grants to small businesses amounting to HRK 3.93 billion.
The minimum grant under the programme totals HRK 10,000 and the maximum 15 million, Entrepreneurship and Crafts Minister Gordan Maras said.
A total of 1,300 grants, for most of which money has been secured from EU funds, are expected to be awarded under this scheme.
This year's Enterprise Impulse programme covers three areas. For the first, which focuses on micro and small businesses, research and development and business environment, funding worth HRK 119 million is envisaged. The second area is based on the 2014-2020 Operational Programme "Competitiveness and Cohesion", with planned investments amounting to HRK 3.89 billion, and in the third area, which is about facilitating access to funding, the ministry plans to invest HRK 369.7 million.
The government also forwarded to parliament a bill on insurance under which insurance companies would be able to also perform reinsurance services without having to establish a separate legal entity for reinsurance operations.
The government decided to give its consent for plans by the Hrvatske Ceste (HC) and Hrvatske Autoceste (HAC) motorway operators for state road and motorway construction and maintenance in 2015.
The plans envisage investments in road building and maintenance in the amount of 1.73 billion kuna, down 22.1 million from 2014.
HAC plans to invest HRK 746.1 million in road construction and maintenance in 2015, which is 19.6 million more than in 2014. Most of the planned works will be performed along the Beli Manastir-Osijek-border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zagreb-Sisak and Bregana-Zagreb-Lipovac sections.
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