The Directorate-General for the Arts will maintain all payments made with the structures, within the scope of competitions, and will not ask for reimbursement of support granted for activities not carried out within the scope of the Covid-19 pandemic, that body announced today.
In a statement released today, the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes) guarantees that it "keeps all payments provided for in the contracts signed with the beneficiary entities", and that it "will not request the refund of support granted for an activity not carried out between the 28th February 2020 and the 90th business day following the end of the state of emergency”.
DGArtes recalls that, as had already been announced by the tutelage, "the beneficiary entities should seek to reschedule the activity not carried out in the aforementioned period within a period of one year from the date initially foreseen, in accordance with the rules of good faith".
Structures that reschedule the activities, within one year, "may pay the remuneration of the team members for the work already performed or the full payment due, maintaining the employee the responsibility to complete the provision of their work on the new dates and conditions to be determined”.
If there is "proven impossibility of rescheduling" within a year, and the activities have to be cancelled, the structures may "reallocate the DGArtes funding to pressing operating expenses that are not included in the budgets of the signed contracts, namely the expenses related to the labor charges (regardless of the modality or employment title) of the artistic and technical teams, whether or not they have already performed the work originally agreed”.
Postponements and subsequent reschedulings and cancellations of activities, "as well as the necessary adjustments to other conditions that led to the granting of support, namely at the level of teams, partnerships and allocation of funding, must be communicated to DGArtes by the 90th day useful following the end of the state of emergency”.
In the statement released today, DGArtes takes the opportunity to appeal "to the principle of good faith and the common sense of all entities and bodies, public and private, that have contractual relations entered into with artistic and cultural entities, in the maintenance of the commitments assumed and of the normal relationship between the parties, especially in a difficult and exceptional context” such as the one that the country is going through.
On March 19, DGArtes had announced that it would maintain the scheduled payments of financial support resulting from the tenders.
On Saturday, the decree-law that "establishes exceptional and temporary measures to respond to the COVID-19 disease pandemic in the cultural and artistic sphere, in particular with regard to unrealized shows", came into force.
This decree-law covers “shows of an artistic nature, promoted by public or private entities, not performed at the previously scheduled place, date and time”, and is applicable to “the rescheduling or cancellation of shows not performed between February 28, 2020 and up to 90 business days after the end of the state of emergency”.
In recent weeks, dozens of music, theater, dance performances, but also festivals and national tours have been postponed and, in some cases, canceled due to restrictive measures, and later due to the declaration of a state of emergency, to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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