Background information

The grant was created by the General Directorate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises within the Ministry of the Economy to help companies during the COVID-19 crisis. It is based on the following legal background:

• Grand-ducal regulation concerning having as its object the introduction of a certified additional emergency allowance in favour of certain micro-enterprises in the context of the pandemic COVID-19 (Règlement grand-ducal du 24 avril 2020 ayant pour objet la mise en place d’une indemnité d’urgence certifiée complémentaire en faveur de certaines micro-entreprises dans le cadre de la pandémie COVID-19, Mémorial A 329 du 24/04/2020).
• Law of 20 of June 2020 on the establishment of a temporary regime of aids (Loi du 20 juin 2020 ayant pour objet la mise en place d’un régime temporaire d’aide de minimis en faveur de certaines entreprises commerciales et artisanales dans le cadre de la pandémie du COVID-19, Mémorial A 534 du 25/06/2020).

Content of measure

The following are the main conditions to benefit from a grant:

Companies:

• Those whose closure was imposed by the grand-ducal regulation of 18 March 2020 and which have not been authorised to resume their activities.
• Those who had to close and were able to reopen after the end of the crisis state but have lost at least 50% of their turnover within the period of 15 April and 25 May 2020.
• Those who did not have to close but who suffered a significant loss of turnover as a result of the COVID-19 crisis of 50% of their turnover within the period of 15 April and 25 May 2020.

Other conditions are:

• Employing less than ten wage earners.
• Being registered as an employer at the social security.
• Have a turnover between €15,000 and €2.000.000.
• In order to be eligible, the company must have achieved a minimum annual turnover of €15,000.

Use of measure

Until 19 October 2020, 7,301 eligible applications were processed for an emergency allowance of €5,000 granted to micro-enterprises.

The government published new data on the use of this measure on 20 May 2021. Until then, 7,349 micro-enterprises received €36,745,000 of allowances.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Does not apply to workers	One person or microenterprises	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government	National funds

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	No involvement	No involvement
Form	Not applicable	Not applicable

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• No involvement
• Main level of involvement: N/A

Involvement

Not available.

Views and reactions

Not available.

Sources

• 13 July 2020: Financial aid of EUR 5,000 for micro-businesses (employing less than 10 people (guichet.public.lu)
• 04 January 2021: Etat des lieux au 19 octobre 2020 des aides accordées aux entreprises (gouvernement.lu)
• 20 May 2021: Overview of Covid-19 aid (meco.gouvernement.lu)