to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Regional Selective Assistance (RSA)
Within the assisted areas, grant aid has primarily taken two main forms in recent years.
Regional Selective Assistance is a discretionary form of assistance available to businesses
of all sizes which reside in or are planning to set up in development and intermediate
areas. Designed to help with investment projects in manufacturing and some service sectors
that might not otherwise go ahead, RSA has represented the main form of regional
aid available to firms to find plant and machinery and associated project costs (e.g. professionalfees, site preparation)