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The CEV calls for measures to ensure the liquidity of companies and the prolongation of ERTE

The Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV) calls for measures to ensure the liquidity of companies in the face of the crisis generated by the covid pandemic, such as the granting of non-refundable aid for SMEs and the self-employed and the prolongation of ERTE “At least until the vaccine is effective.”

The president of the CEV, Salvador Navarro, has made this claim during his speech this Thursday in the general assembly of the Valencian employers’ association, and has warned that the “most urgent” at this time is to ensure with these measures that “the productive fabric is not destroyed, because recovering it will be more complicated “.

“We run the risk that ERTEs end up becoming ERE and, although the ERTE bill can be very high, more worrying and damaging will be if the situation ends in unemployment”, has warned.

Given the advances in the covid-19 vaccine, Navarro has indicated that “now there is one more reason” to subscribe to the proposals demanded by the employer: “the need to ensure the liquidity of companies and extend ERTEs, without excluding any sector until companies recover sufficient levels of activity to ensure their viability and maintain their workforce. ”

The representative of the Valencian employers’ association has valued the change in conditions for ICO credits”However,” he regretted, “we continue to hope that, as is the case with countries such as Italy, France or Germany, non-refundable aid will be granted to SMEs and the self-employed”.

The CEV general assembly, which has submitted the activities report, the 2019 annual accounts for approval, the budget for the current year and a proposal for 2021 as well as a modification in the Statutes of the Confederation, has been closed by the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig.

The president thanked the businessmen who “they have been suffering and working “for the maintenance of their companies since the beginning of the pandemic, and has stated that the “great priority” of the Valencian Government at the moment is “saving lives, jobs and companies.”

The short-term goal, he asserted, is “no viable business project is closed”, and for this” it is necessary to act with the maximum intelligence “with the available funds that will come from the European Union and” consolidating “the companies with future capacity.

The covid vaccine, he added, opens a new perspective on the pandemic, “to be able to plan another time”, while the change in the presidency of the United States “will mean at least a certain stability and serenity” in trade wars.

“We have opportunities and it is essential that the resources of the EU end up in line with those of the Community”, he has asserted, because” what could not be accepted is that they generate a huge legion of losers. ”

For his part, the president of the CEV has reiterated the employer’s claim for a “fair” regional financing, which is still pending, and has regretted that the horizontal leveling fund that “would put us on an equal footing to face the recovery” has not been accepted either.

“It is time to encourage economic activity, employment and consumption and not to put sticks in the wheels of recovery “with an increase in the tax burden on companies, he warned.

Also he has defended “public-private” collaboration as the “ideal formula to give society a better service” and increase the weight of Valencian industry in GDP by up to 20%, as an “engine of economic recovery”.

BUDGET FOR 2021

The CEV has approved budgets for 2021 that they foresee a total “balance” in the accounts, without losses or benefits. The accounts of the regional employers expect to enter more than 2.7 million euros and spend practically the same amount.

This is the first time they have been approved before the fiscal year begins, a milestone that its president, Salvador Navarro, believes “should be the tonic” from now on, “for transparency and for management”In addition, the employer’s leader has advanced that for the next assembly they plan to incorporate” nominative lines “of provincial CEV spending so that they have their budget adjusted in terms of expenses and income.

Specifically, these budgets suppose an increase in the entity’s ordinary income of 8.36% and an increase in ordinary expenditure of 9.2% compared to this 2020.

Precisely, the accounts for this year have also been approved, which, as the year goes, plans to close positively, with 23,293 euros in the bosses’ coffers. The employer’s association believes that it may lose some associates due to the crisis derived from the pandemic but hopes to “compensate” with new incorporations.

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