Good to know: Even companies that are not currently, but in the near future, such as B. due to the loss of a major customer, are in trouble, can receive funding under the conditions for companies in difficulty. The situation must be presented with budget figures in the advisory report to be prepared and also explained accordingly.

If these criteria apply, then please call the Chamber of Commerce responsible for you and ask for the necessary informational talk over the phone and explain that you would like to submit a BAFA application “company in difficulty”. For the application, enter the date of the information meeting and the BAFA ID # 157184 of the UMSATZSCHMIEDE.

If your application is approved, you will receive an e-mail as well as post with BAFA's approval. Then we make an appointment and can get started.

Good to know: Follow-up advice for companies in difficulty is additional advice to deepen the measures, to restore performance and competitiveness, on all economic, financial, personnel and organizational questions of corporate management. This can be requested via the BAFA website within 3 months without a further information meeting with the Chamber of Commerce and is again funded to 90%.

Not eligible for application / funding:

• Companies as well as members of the liberal professions who are or are active in management or economic consulting, auditing or accounting, tax consulting or as a lawyer, as a notary, as an insolvency administrator or in a similar manner in an advisory or training capacity want

• Companies for whose assets insolvency proceedings have been applied for or opened or which meet the requirements for opening insolvency proceedings

• Companies that have a participation relationship with religious communities, legal entities under public law or their own businesses

• Non-profit companies and non-profit associations as well as foundations

• It should also be noted that advice from companies, e.g. companies in primary agricultural production, fisheries and aquaculture, or on content that is excluded according to Article 1 paragraph of Regulation (EU) No. 1407/2013, cannot be funded

Please note before submitting an application:

• Before application companies need to run a free information session with a local sales representative about the prerequisites for funding in trouble. The choice of the regional contact person is left to the respective company. It must be a regional contact person registered with a control center. To do this, you can, for example, contact the responsible chamber of commerce .

• There must be no more than three months between the interview and the application. If the three months are exceeded, an information meeting must be held again.

• The control center involved checks the formal funding requirements in advance and informs the company about the result, the conditions of the funding and the submission deadlines for the proof of use. She then forwards the documents to the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) for a decision.

• Advice can only be started after receiving this non-binding prospect of funding, otherwise no subsidy can be granted. Retroactive funding is excluded. The conclusion of a contract on the measure to be provided also counts as the beginning of the consultation.