This measure provides a financial incentive to companies that are going to make ecological investments in the Flemish Region. In this way, the Flemish government hopes to encourage companies to invest in cutting-edge green technology (technology that by its unique business-specific character cannot be standardised).

The ecological investment must be ‘strategic’. This strategic character will be tested against the following conditions:

• the project offers a broad environmental or energy solution at company level with closed energy and material cycles and process-integrated solutions. The project is placed within a broad vision of the company regarding the environment or the sustainable use of energy in the company;
• the project strives for generic environmental or energy objectives.

NB The support scheme is an addition to the already existing Ecology Premium Plus scheme (EP-Plus). In contrast to the Ecology Premium Plus scheme, whereby a company must make a choice from technologies that are on the limitative technology list (LTL), the Strategic Ecology Support satisfies specific and greater investment projects that, due to their unique business-specific character, cannot be standardised.