This consultation aims to collect, directly or through its representative organizations, the opinion of persons and entities potentially affected by the rule is projected.

The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 has completely changed the scene of the global economy, which is facing an unprecedented crisis. The disruption of international value chains, restrictions on the supply of certain activities and falling demand by the necessary steps of estrangement physical and restriction of mobility have led to an unprecedented recession in much of the world.

In parallel with the spread of the pandemic, economic activity has gone through various stages in different geographical areas and countries, with an epicenter that has shifted from Asia towards the American continent after hitting hard European countries in spring 2020.

As a result of actions of containment of the pandemic, the European economy into a deep recession in the first half of this year, the highest since the Second World War. According to estimates by the European commission, the euro zone economy has operated between 25% and 30% below capacity during the period of confinement tightened. It is expected that the PIB of the eurozone shrink 8.7% in 2020, before recovering to an annual growth rate of 6.1% next year.

In the case of Spain, the economic and social impact has been particularly intense since mid-March, owing to containment measures taken and the important weight of the most directly affected. In line with the rest of Europe, forecasts suggest an evolution in the form of asymmetric V.: after the fall of PIB 5.2% in the first quarter and 17.8% in the second, provides a gradual recovery until the end of the year to recover the path of growth in 2021.

All forecasts are marked by uncertainty. The impact of the crisis of the COVID-19 will be determined essentially for the duration and structural impact of response measures sanitaria worldwide, by the intensity of the revival of the activity and employment at the international level in the second half of 2020 and by the actual and potential growth reaching from 2021.

The negative impact of the health emergency exacerbate some of the major imbalances that slowed down the Spanish economy for decades: high unemployment structural, with special emphasis on youth; a marked labour precariousness, which delves into the strong and growing social inequalities; a high level of debt coupled with a structural problem of public deficit; a low level of investment in innovation and continuous training, low productivity of productive factors, a little attention to the environmental effects of economic activity; an industrial sector and little services adapted to new technologies and with limited integration of risks and opportunities of decarbonisation in their business strategies; an ecosystem of companies of very small size with difficulty to grow and take advantage of all the benefits of European integration and large interregional inequality gaps.

The magnitude of the challenge has demanded a common response at European level. In the short term, providing with monetary and fiscal policy a funding framework suitable for national responses, protecting the proper functioning of the common market for all firms can operate in the same conditions, and develop common protocols of safety and health. In the medium term, launching an ambitious recovery Fund and resilience, which specifies the process of rebuilding economies in the world post-COVID, starting in 2021.

The recovery Plan, transformation and resilience produced by the government is structured around FOUR transversal AXIS vertebrarán transforming the entire economy and that the government has placed from the beginning in the centre of its strategy of economic policy: the ecological transition, transformation digital, gender equality and social and territorial cohesion.

Support for the dissemination of the digitalization process will have an essential role in achieving the objectives of the plan. Will be obvious effects on productivity, growth and job creation, in addition to the welfare improvements and access to goods and services, as indicated in several studies. According to a report by the International telecommunication Union (2018), in the countries of the OCDE, a 1% increase in the intensity of the country digitization represents an increase of per capita PIB 0.14%. In Spain a recent study by Deloitte shows that an improvement of 10 points in the index DESI would increase an average of a point to the real per capita PIB of spain. The launch of projects related to the digital transformation requires the accessibility of financial resources for companies. However, the current economic scenario is not conducive to small and medium enterprises and microenterprises have access to finance needed for

develop and grow, to increase its productivity and scanned and, ultimately, to compete in international markets. It Is therefore necessary within the scope of the General Secretariat of Industry and SMES, approving regulatory bases for the financing of industrial action within the scope of the industry Connected 4.0 made by the manufacturing sector that allow the necessary adaptation and growing companies in an environment of digital transformation.

It is urgent support the modernisation of the industrial fabric, boosting its internationalization, the renewal of the technological capital, adapting to the ecological transition, and its digitization.

It must promote a Digital Transformation inclusive and sustainable, based on infrastructure and services that put at the centre to persons, open up new opportunities for companies, reduce the various digital divides and promote reliable technologies that promote an open society and a dynamic economy and sustainable, and contributing to a European digital sovereignty according to our values.

Cyber security, the economy of the data, artificial intelligence, robotics advanced and other digital technologies are enabling strategic vector to boost the second wave of digitalization in spain.

In the current context it is necessary to establish active policies to boost to the digitization of our productive sector with differentiated support for SMEs and large companies with the aim to accompany adequately to both environments according to your needs.

The standard will regulate the granting of loans and grants to projects in the area of industry Connected 4.0 developed by industrial enterprises.

On 21 July reached a historic agreement in the European Council to mobilize in response to this exceptional situation €750 billion, financed by issuing debt community, which, along with the 1,074 trillions of the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 address an unprecedented level of investment in the coming years.

The mobilization of an important volume of resources opens an extraordinary opportunity for our country, comparable to economic transformation processes resulting from joining the European Communities in the 1980s or the creation of the European Cohesion Fund in the middle of the 1990s. Allow not only overcoming the crisis and recovery of the job, but that will facilitate the modernisation of our economy, so that this recovery is green, digital, inclusive and social. Will be launched changes and structural reforms aimed at the transition towards a society and economy climate-neutral, sustainable, circular, respectful of the limits imposed by the natural environment and efficient in the use of resources.

Es necesario actualizar los marcos de apoyo actuales por otros que permitan una gestión adecuada de los Fondos de Recuperación y que articulen las políticas definidas en el Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.

The fundamental objective of this rule is to regulate the support for industrial companies that enables the digital transformation of their production processes and organisational and which contribute to strengthen its competitiveness and to encourage the development of the industry.

Constitutes another objective the adequacy of types of support to the size of the company distinguishing between SMEs and large companies for the digital transformation of both.

In a context of global crisis derivative of the pandemic COVID-19, it is necessary to encouraging industrial investment from all fields, in this case from the public sector, in order to channel European funds with the utmost rigour, transparency and accessibility to all companies of the national territory.

The combination of funding of non-repayable grants fair to zero interest loans are considered an optimal tool to support companies in their processes of adaptation to the challenges of industry Connected 4.0

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