Last week, Institute representatives attended an information meeting hosted by the Department of Finance in conjunction with officials from Revenue. An update on the revised EU “Green Deal” General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER), which was adopted on 1 July 2023 and comes into effect from 1 January 2024, and its impact was provided.
GBER is a European Commission regulation that allows Member States to put certain State aid schemes into place without prior notification to the EU Commission, provided certain conditions are met. The Employment Investment Incentive (EII), the Start-Up Relief for Entrepreneurs (SURE) and the Start-Up Capital Incentive (SCI must comply with GBER for all shares issued on or after 13 October 2015.
A copy of the slides from the meeting are available here.