Investments in green and digital technologies are important
But starting an activity in the eligible fields is not the only requirement
Key points
In order to access the self-employment incentives introduced by Article 21 of the Cohesion Decree (Decree Law 60/2024), it is not enough for the new activity started by the young person under 35 to fall within the sectors listed in the Ministry of Labour decree of 3 April 2025 implementing the two measures. The activity started up must also meet certain specific criteria, such as the average percentage value of investments in green and digital technologies out of the total investments.
The draft of the 'Milleproroghe' decree approved by the Council of Ministers on Thursday 11 December then extends the operativity of the two measures to 2026, together with the hiring incentives for young people and disadvantaged women, which would expire on 31 December 2025.
User requirements
The contribution for self-employment - equal to 500 euro monthly for 36 months - supports the start-up phase of the entrepreneurial activity and is also the logical-legal prerequisite for access to subsidised hiring of unemployed young people under 35 by the same new enterprises. The subjective requirement for obtaining the contribution coincides, in fact, with that necessary to allow such enterprises to benefit from the contribution exemption for hiring, as established by the same Article 21 of Decree-Law 60/2024.
The target group of beneficiaries is defined by three essential conditions:
- the young person must be unemployed according to Article 19 of Legislative Decree 150/2015 on the date of the start of the activity, a requirement verified through the active policy information systems;
- it is necessary not to be 35 years old at the time of the start of the activity;
- the activity must be started between 1 July 2024 and 31 December 2026 (the deadline has changed from the original 2025 in light of the Milleproroghe), in one of the strategic sectors identified by the implementing decree and traced back to the Ateco 2025 codes in the annex to Inps Circular 148/2025.
The benefit is also recognisable in the case of a corporation, but only to one partner who qualifies.
