/ Municipal compensation scheme to local businesses - Part 6 with overview of allocations

This support scheme is the sixth part of the Ministry of Local Government and Modernization's grant under chapter. 553 item 68, Municipal compensation scheme for local enterprises.

There are five eligible categories:
 

The deadline for applications was February 15, 2022. 

See overview of awards at the bottom of this page. 

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1. Catering (with or without a liquor license) 
2. Where to stay 
3. Fitness center 
4. Experience, event and congress 
5. Tourism 

Application forms and sets of criteria for the different categories can be found at the bottom of this page.  

Grants are not provided for the following:
 

• Measures that fall outside the terms of the call for proposals. 
• Enterprises that are municipally or publicly owned and/or financed.  

Requirements for applicants 

The responsible applicant must be a person who can legally commit the business. Business Region Kristiansand is free to request other information and documentation that is considered relevant in the assessment of the application.  

The enterprise must have an address in Kristiansand municipality. Support is only provided for the economic activity in the enterprise that takes place in Kristiansand municipality.

If the enterprise has economic activity in several municipalities, it is a prerequisite that the applicant keeps separate accounts for branches, departments or similar in Kristiansand municipality, or that it is possible in other similar ways to separate the economic activity in Kristiansand municipality from the activities in other parts of the enterprise.

When the term "enterprises" is used in the following, it means enterprises that meet the localization and separation requirement under this section.  

Amount of the grant 

The amount of the grant will not be known until the deadline for applications has expired and calculations have been made. The amount of the grant will depend on the number of approved applications in each category and may differ between the five categories. The grant amount cannot be higher than the loss of turnover for the period requested and additional costs, minus public corona aid already received for the period January 2022.  

A ceiling of up to kr. 400,000 as the maximum amount of support.  

The amount of subsidy is adjusted according to the number of man-years in the enterprise and a threefold division is applied; 1-5 man-years, 6-10 and more than 10 man-years. The amount of support will also be adjusted according to whether the business has a liquor license or not, and there may be differentiation between categories in terms of the size of the subsidy. 

Drop in turnover - additional costs 

The business must show a drop in turnover in January 2022 compared to January 2020. Alternatively, the drop in turnover can be calculated by comparing the turnover in January 2022 with the average of the turnover in October 2021 and November 2021. 

Payment of grants 

The grant funds are paid as soon as possible after the application deadline, once the applications have been reviewed, the applicant has been verified as eligible and the applicant has signed the necessary documents sent by the municipality. The funding is awarded through the nationally notified scheme under the Covid-19 framework, Chapter 553 item 68. More information on the notified scheme can be found here. De minimis aid may be considered for use. 

Delivery of the application 

A link to the application form can be found at the bottom of this page and on Kristiansand municipality's website. The aid scheme is called "Kommunal kompensasjonsordning del VI". To complete the application, you must log in to ID-porten with your bank ID. Fill in the application in line with the description. The responsible applicant must be a person who can legally commit the business.  

Kristiansand municipality practices digital first choice, all further communication will take place digitally. If the contact person/applicant has reserved against digital communication with the public sector, this will delay the process. In the application process, you can change the choice of reservation against digital communication with the public sector, and update the information under "About the applicant".  

Case management  

All applications are assessed according to the criteria for grants. Applications will be processed by Business Region Kristiansand, the business department in Kristiansand municipality after the application deadline. The criteria are the basis for the decisions. Some minor discretionary assessments may be used to find good solutions.  

Requirements for grant recipients 

• Terms and conditions will be set out in the award letter.  
• The applicant must accept the terms and conditions of the commitment letter and sign the acceptance letter. Acceptance must be given within seven (7) days of commitment.  
• The scheme is trust-based, but the municipality or other relevant actors may at any time request audited documentation for all the assumptions made in the application.  

Application deadline and announcement 

The deadline for applications is 15.02.2022, at 23.59.
The grant scheme is announced on businessregionkristiansand.no, and in the municipality's social media.  

Complaint 

All relevant information from the applicant must be provided before the deadline for applications. Decisions are made on the basis of the information provided by the applicant. The municipality's decision on a grant may be appealed by a party or other party with a legal interest in the case to the municipality's internal appeals board, cf. section 28, second paragraph, of the Public Administration Act. The deadline for appeal is 3 (three) weeks from notification of the decision. The complaint must be sent to post@kristiansand.kommune.no. The appeal must refer to the decision being appealed against and the change(s) requested. The appeal should be substantiated and other information relevant to the case should be mentioned. Any questions regarding the appeal can be directed to the case officer.  

With certain exceptions, the parties are entitled to see the documents in the case, cf. Sections 18 and 19 of the Public Administration Act.  

Questions about the scheme can be directed to Business Region Kristiansand:  

• Kristian Råmunddal; tel. 47 61 01 63  
• Ole Jacob Rynning-Tønnesen, tel. 98 84 94 00  
• Stein Otto G. Daatland, tel. 99 71 18 19  

Application management

There were 92 eligible applicants.

Here you can see who has received funding.