SERV formulates objections and proposals for improvement to advance the transition of the AO( Agency for Enterprises) and the Agency for Innovation through Science and Research (IWT) into the new Agency for Innovation and Enterprises (AIO).
In the first place SERV wants to focus on the competenceses and the functioning of the decision committee of the Hermes Fund, the budget fund of the Agency. Social partners are urging for a rapid start of the committee that should get the competence to allocate economic instruments such as transformation aid and strategic ecological subsidies. The Council asks for a clear referential framework and a concrete timing for the transfer of the competences.
Secondly SERV is elaborating on the relation between both the Hermes decision committee and the advisory committee to AIO. SERV clearly expects a stronger advisory function in the case government should opt for an integration of both committees.