Company Requirements
To be able to apply for this financing line, your company must meet the following requirements
- Be validly incorporated, have its own legal personality and its registered tax address in Spain.
- Carry out the R&D project in Spain.
- Accepted legal forms: capital companies (S.L., S.A., limited partnership by shares) and, in general, any entity whose main activity is economic, such as agricultural processing companies, cooperatives, labour companies, public business entities and state-owned commercial companies.
- Associations and foundations: only if they carry out an economic activity on a regular basis and have been registered for business tax (IAE) for at least two years before the application date.
- Have no outstanding repayment obligations towards CDTI from previous aid, neither the company nor its group (art. 42 of the Commercial Code).
- Be up to date with tax and social security obligations; this is a condition for signing the aid contract.
- Comply with the supplier payment terms set out in Law 3/2004, evidenced by a responsible declaration.
- Provide the beneficial ownership certificate issued by the Commercial Registry or by the Central Registry of Beneficial Ownership. Required for applications submitted from 1 March 2026.
- Oriented Projects (type g): be in a situation at least comparable to a B- credit rating (satisfactory). If the company files consolidated accounts, the group's rating applies.
- National Cooperation (type b): consortium of two to six companies, at least one SME and at least two autonomous from each other, formalised through a signed private collaboration agreement and with a designated coordinating company. No autonomous company may exceed 70% of the total eligible budget.
- There is no restriction on the sector or the technology to be developed.
