As soon as the announcement at the end of December of the reinstatement of gauges in sports arenas (5,000 outdoors, 2,000 indoors), for a period of three weeks, the Ministry of Sports had indicated that the sector would be helped without going into detail.
"The partial activity without out-of-pocket expense is reactivated for structures facing the limitations of gauges and the ban on the sale of drinks and food in establishments open to the public, and those which lose more than 65% of turnover ", said the Ministry of the Economy, SMEs and Sports.
They will also benefit from "fixed costs" aid for December and January in the event of a loss of "more than 50%" of turnover.
"This device allows companies to benefit from aid compensating 90% of the operating loss (70% for companies with more than 50 employees)", assures the executive.
Work is "in progress" with regard to exemptions from social contributions.
Compensation for loss of ticketing, which has been put in place twice since the start of the health crisis, and which had been mentioned in early January, is "under study", it was said to the Ministry of Sports .
Companies in the sports sector also benefit from the general measure of the possibility of extending repayment periods up to 10 years (instead of 6 years today) for loans guaranteed by the State.
Regarding the gauges, currently fixed (5,000 outdoors and 2,000 indoors), an amendment voted in the draft law on the vaccination pass - still under consideration - could pave the way for proportional gauges if the health situation evolves, and according to the "characteristics" of establishments.
"There will be a floor beyond which there will be proportional gauges," the Minister responsible for Sports indicated to a few journalists last week, with the definition of a "percentage", in the event that the health situation evolves and all of this once the bill is passed.
The prefects will have room for maneuver in this device, we learned from the same source, device which must be specified by decree.
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