Public invitation to submit applications for a subsidy from the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic in the field of mental health promotion" for 2017

Public invitation to apply for a subsidy from the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic in Areas - Mental health promotion- 2017 (hereinafter referred to as "the public call') is initiated in accordance with the provision of Act No 525/2010 Coll. on the granting of subsidies within the scope of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, as amended, under which subsidies in the field of health may be granted for the relevant financial year also for the purposes of -education of the general public in the area of awareness raising of prevention and the protection of their own health–.

Priority areas for 2017:
Realising Education programmes, campaigns, initiatives and activities intended for the general public to raise awareness of prevention and mental health individuals and families, early childhood bonding, prevention of dementia, suicides and destigmatisation.

The public invitation shall be published in accordance with Article 2 (1) (a). b), § 4 (9) and § 5 (8) (a). (c) Act No 525/2010 Coll. on the granting of subsidies within the scope of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, as amended.

1. The deadline by which a subsidy application may be submitted is 05.12.2017.
2. Legislation governing the granting of subsidies:

Act No. 525/2010 Coll. on the granting of subsidies within the scope of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "Subsidies Act') available at www.slov-lex.sk.
Act No 523/2004 Coll. on the Financial Regulation of the Public Administration and on the amendment of certain laws as amended (hereinafter referred to as the Financial Regulation) available at www.slov-lex.sk.
Act No 343/2015 Coll. on Public Procurement and on the amendment of certain laws as amended (hereinafter referred to as "the Public Procurement Act') available at www.slov-lex.sk.

The Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 22 June 2015 laying down the criteria and procedure for the evaluation of subsidy applications (hereinafter referred to as "the Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic') published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 13 July 2015, Volume 63, item 6 – 7, is annexed to No 1 of this public call.

1. Basic objective of the project:

The public call aims to raise the public's awareness of prevention and protection of the mental health of individuals and families through educational programmes, campaigns, initiatives and activities, and to promote early childhood relationship, dementia prevention, suicide and destigmatisation.

The aim of the public call is to ensure transparency in the provision of subsidies by the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (i.e. public funds, from the state budget) to applicants.

1. Application form in electronic form:

Model for compulsory forms in electronic form for the application:

1. REQUEST FOR SUBSIDISATION TO THE APPLICANT, WHO IS THE PHYSICAL PERSON OF THE BUSINESSER - Annex 2 to this public call,
2. REQUEST FOR SUBSIDISATION TO THE APPLICANT, WHO IS THE PHYSICAL PERSON AND THE NON-POINTER - Annex 3 to this public call,
3. REQUEST FOR SUBSIDISATION TO THE APPLICANT OF THE LEGAL PERSON, Annex 4 to this public call,
4. PROJECT: STRUCTURAL BUDGET - Annex No. 5 of this public call.
5. Conditions for granting the subsidy:

A subsidy may be granted to an applicant who is a legal person or a natural person.
The application for a subsidy submitted by the applicant shall consist of mandatory particulars, namely:

1. aid application - published in the Annex No. 2 to 4 of this public call;
2. mandatory annexes (according to the subsidy and financial rules law):
3. description of the project for which the subsidy is requested,
4. the structured budget of the project - published in Annex No. 5 of this public call;
5. a document establishing or setting up an applicant where the applicant is a legal person (founding document, organisation status, formation document, social contract, written contract establishing a legal person),

• an extract from the commercial register or similar register in the case of a legal person entered in such a register,
• an extract from the trade register or similar register in the case of an applicant for whom the self-employed person is registered in the trade register or in a similar register certifying an authorisation to pursue an activity;
• an extract from the criminal record of not more than three months old that the applicant does not have a valid penalty against receiving subsidies or subsidies if it is a natural person,
• evidence of the provision of financing of the project from other sources pursuant to § 4 (2) of the subsidy law (a statement from the applicant's account that it has at least 5% of its own resources to finance the project, or e.g. a written promise from the organisation/person to participate in project financing and to provide the applicant/entity with at least 5% of the total amount per project for other sources),
• the applicant's self-declaration that he has settled financial relations with the national budget,
• confirmation by the competent insolvency court that the applicant is not subject to insolvency proceedings, is not in bankruptcy, is in restructuring and is not rejected against the application for bankruptcy due to lack of assets;
• confirmation by the local tax administrator concerned that the applicant does not have tax arrears,
• the applicant's declaration that the enforcement of the decision is not directed against him,
• confirmation by the labour inspectorate concerned that the applicant has not infringed the ban on illegal employment in the previous three years pursuant to a specific regulation;
• confirmation by the Social Insurance Institution and any health insurance undertaking (Union Health Insurance Institution, a. s., DIVERA Health Insurance Institution, a. s., General Health Insurance Institution, a. s.)that the applicant does not have registered underpayments of health insurance premiums, social security contributions and old-age pension savings contributions,
• an extract from the criminal record that the applicant, if it is a legal person, does not have a valid penalty against receiving subsidies or subsidies within the meaning of
  § 17 of Act No. 91/2016 Coll. on criminal liability of legal persons and amending certain laws. The subsidy cannot be granted to the applicant if he has been convicted of a criminal offence against property or another intentional offence (subsidies law),
• proof that the applicant is registered in the Register of Public Sector Partners in the case of an applicant who has an obligation to register public sector partners (Law No 315/2016 Coll. on the Register of Public Sector Partners and on amendments to certain laws).

The annexes to the subsidy application under this invitation to tender and under Article 5 (3) of the subsidy law must be submitted in the form of an original or an officially certified copy not more than three months old at the date of submission of the application.

Annexes to the subsidy application referred to in point 5 (II) (i) and (k) this public call shall not apply to an applicant who is a public authority.
Annexes to the subsidy application referred to in point 5 (II) (i) and (m) this public call shall be demonstrated only by the applicant, who is a legal person and a natural person, and the entrepreneur.

The subsidy cannot be granted:

1. to cover the applicant's commitments from previous financial years,
2. reimbursement of expenditure incurred in previous financial years,
3. to pay salaries, salaries, service incomes and their compensation and other personal allowances; this is not the case if the applicant is the Slovak Red Cross (up to 50% of the total amount of the grant),
4. an applicant who has been convicted of a criminal offence against property or another intentional offence.
5. Available resources for the call:

The amount of funding allocated for the provision of mental health subsidies in the financial year 2017 is EUR 100 000.00.

1. Maximum and lowest amount of one subsidy:

The highest amount is 33,000.00 Euro.
The lowest amount is 7,000.00 Euro.

1. How to address formal deficiencies in applications:

Any application for a subsidy must be made in accordance with this invitation to tender.

Applications for subsidies made on a form other than the form prescribed or incomplete shall be considered as temporarily not meeting the formal evaluation criteria.

The applicant will be informed of this by e-mail at the address indicated in the application, i.e. it will be invited to receive a revised or supplemented application for a subsidy Up to 3 calendar days, from the date of delivery of the e-mail. The period for completing the application for a subsidy shall begin on the first day following the date of receipt of the e-mail. In the event that the applicant fails to submit a revised subsidy application within the time limit set, or fails to complete the missing documents in the grant application within the time limit set, the application for subsidy shall be rejected from further evaluation, which shall be informed in writing by 10 calendar daysfrom the date of the removal decision.

1. Method of submission of the subsidy application:

The applicant shall submit complete documentation in documentary form, in the Slovak language, once the original of the subsidy application, signed by the applicant's statutory body, together with all mandatory annexes; once a copy of the subsidy application without the applicant's identification; once backed up on the CD medium (scan or PDF format not allowed). A copy without identification shall be presented in a form that does not allow the applicant to be identified directly (in the application, description and structured budget, the applicant's identification marks, address, signature and stamp may not be visible). The original of the subsidy application, including annexes, as well as a copy of the subsidy application without annexes, shall be tied individually by ridge binding in order to make it impossible to insert or select individual parts of the dossier. Craft binding will not be considered as Eurobalises or other binding devices. The pages must be numbered.

An application for a subsidy, together with the annexes prescribed, shall be submitted by the applicant by post or in person. The time limit for the submission of applications for subsidies shall begin on the day on which the invitation to tender is published and end on the day indicated in the call for tenders. Where the applicant submits an application for a subsidy by post, the date indicated on the postage stamp on the cover of the application shall be decided. Envelopes or packages delivered and registered by the mailing office of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Ministry') after the deadline will not be evaluated at all and will be returned to the organisation that sent the subsidy request. Each working day from 8.00 to 15.00, ground floor, door number 5.

The application for a subsidy, including its annexes, must be lodged together in one sealed envelope which shall be clearly and visibly marked with the words:

A request for a subsidymental health resistance for 2017, DO NOT RECEIVE.

and to:

Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
Health Section
Health Care Department
Limba 2
837 52 Bratislava 37

1. The deadline for evaluating applications for grants shall be 13.12.2017 at the latest.
2. Evaluation of applications for subsidies:

Applications for subsidies shall be evaluated by the Commission established by the Ministry.

1. Composition of the Commission:

The selection and evaluation body is the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic to evaluate the application for a subsidy, the composition and activity of which govern:

1. The status of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for the evaluation of the grant application of 29 June 2012, published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 29 June 2012, the year 60, the amount of 17 19, is annexedč. 8 of this public call.

• Appendix 1 to the Statute of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for the evaluation of the subsidy application of 19 June 2015, published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 19 June 2015, Volume 63, amount 4 – 5, forms Annex 9 to this public call.
• Appendix 2 to the Statute of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for the evaluation of the subsidy request of 13 August 2015, published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 13 August 2015, Volume 63, Volume 8 – 9, Annex No 10 of this public call.
• List of all approved applications, including the date of their approval, the purpose and amount of the subsidy requested and granted and the identification of the final beneficiary:

The list of approved subsidy applications will be published after approval by the Ministry of Health on the website of the Ministry.

1. List of all pending applications, including date and reason for non-approval:

The list of non-approved subsidy applications and the reason for non-approval will be published after their non-approval by the Ministry of Health on the Ministry's website.

1. Frequently asked questions related to subsidies:

Frequently asked questions are summarised in Annex 6 to this public call.

1. Draft subsidy contract:

The draft subsidy contract is published in Annex 7 to this invitation to tender.

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