Supported activities: 

• Activities for which you can apply to receive tourism support (for a calendar year): 
  • Participation in international tourism and business tourism exhibitions abroad with an individual or a joint display; 
  • Participation in tourism/business tourism conferences/forums abroad with an individual display, a presentation or as a listener/visitor; 
  • Participation in tourism and business tourism matchmaking events abroad, or international matchmaking events online; 
  • Participation in international digital tourism and business tourism platforms, including digital exhibitions; 
  • Publicity in foreign tourism and business tourism media; 
  • Adapting products/services to foreign markets; 
  • Sales visits abroad to present Latvia’s tourism offer to clients. 
• Organisation of international conferences, congresses and seminars in Latvia; 
• Participation in national displays organised by LIAA at international tourism and business tourism exhibitions; 
• Participation in tourism and business tourism presentation events abroad organised by LIAA.

Applicates for support must comply with the requirements set in Paragraphs 28, 30 and 31 of Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 678 “Regulation for the Implementation of Activity 3.2.1.2 “Promoting international competitiveness” of Specific Objective 3.2.1 “To increase the share of exports of high value-added products and services” of the Operational Programme “Growth and Employment””.

Procedure for receiving support under the activity “Promoting international competitiveness (business)”.

To be eligible for aid, an agreement for receiving support must be signed.

• Application for tourism support operations (for the calendar year): 

1. The beneficiary has to submit an Application for Tourism Support Activities (hereinafter — Tourism Application) to LIAA for all activities they plan to carry out in the calendar year for which the application is submitted. The Tourism Application may include operations that have taken place during the 3 months preceding the submission of the application.  
2. To receive support, the beneficiary has to submit a payment request to LIAA with copies of supporting documents for transactions and costs either after each supported activity, or after the implementation of several, but no later than one month after the end of the last activity.  

• Participation in national displays organised by LIAA at international tourism and business tourism exhibitions; 
• Participation in tourism and business tourism presentation events abroad organised by LIAA. 
  The beneficiary has to submit a payment request to LIAA with copies of supporting documents for transactions and costs regarding participation in trade missions organised by LIAA and visits abroad by high-ranking Latvian government officials, following the three-month deadline for the submission of payment requests after the supported activity has taken place.

Funding is not provided for these sectors:  

• The trade sector (Section G NACE Rev. 2, “Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles”, except for class 45.2, “Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles”); 
• The financial intermediation sector (Section K of NACE Rev. 2, “Financial and insurance activities”); 
• The commercial services sector (Section L of NACE Rev. 2, “Real estate activities”, and Group 77, “Rental and leasing activities”); 
• The gambling sector (Group 92, “Gambling and betting activities”, of Section R of NACE Rev. 2, “Arts, entertainment and recreation”).

Support for tourism is available for: 

• Merchants* (except for those active in fisheries or aquaculture or in the primary production of agricultural products); 
• Associations of at least five merchants or cooperative societies* (except for those active in fisheries or aquaculture or in the primary production of agricultural products); 
• Foundations that include at least five merchants or cooperative societies among their founders and members* (except for those active in fisheries or aquaculture or in the primary production of agricultural products). 

* .qualifying as micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (commercial enterprises) in accordance with Annex 1 to Commission Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014 of 17 June 2014

Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 678 “Regulation for the Implementation of Activity 3.2.1.2 “Promoting international competitiveness” (adopted 1 December 2015) of Specific Objective 3.2.1 “To increase the share of exports of high value-added products and services” of the Operational Programme “Growth and Employment””.

1. ERDF beneficiary application form;
2. Declaration of the eligibility of a commercial company as a small (micro) or medium-sized commercial enterprise applies to merchants, cooperative societies, farmers or fish farm owners, individual merchants, associations and foundations intending to receive de minimis aid; 
3. De minimis accounting form to be filled in and submitted to the electronic database by the company (beneficiary) to the SRS EDS; 
4. If, according to information available in the database of tax (levy) debtors administered by the State Revenue Service, the beneficiary has tax or levy debt totalling more than EUR 1,000 on the date of submitting the application, they must submit a tax payment certificate printed from the electronic declaration system (EDS). This excludes tax payments that have been granted an extension, tax payments for which there is a voluntary agreement, or for which an agreement has been signed 

On de minimis, the single aid accounting system and application
Determining the status of small and medium-sized enterprise
Tax debtor database administered by the SRS
Regarding the statistical classification of economic activities in NACE Rev. 2
Regarding the primary production of agricultural products