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Box 12.4
BUSINESS DIGITALISATION PROGRAMME (PDE)

Another novelty in 2022 was the launch of the assessment service, offered by businesses that
Business Digitalisation Programme (PDE), which have been previously approved by Andorra Digital,
was passed by decree in June 2022. The aim of this becomes a digital consultancy and digital solutions
programme is to boost digitalisation of Andorran guidance service which will set out a suitable digital
businesses through assessments, grants and transformation plan in each case, detailing the
guarantees. The decree provides for €287,000 in implementation schedule, those responsible for each
direct grants and €1.7 million in loans to carry out project and the main indicators to be measured to
digitalisation projects. ensure it rolls out correctly. This stage is subsidised
according to the type of business: 40% of the total
The PDE gives businesses access to a digital cost for those with more than 100 workers; 50%
assessment platform. In this tool, deployed with the for businesses with 26-100 workers, and 75% for
support of Andorra Digital, Andorra Business and microbusinesses and SMBs with 1-25 workers.
the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services,
businesses can carry out a self-assessment of The last stage is implementation of the digital
their digital maturity, to inform them about the services and solutions for each of the businesses
main fields of opportunity, and they will receive that have started their modernisation process. To
recommendations for their digitalisation projects. put these solutions into action, there will be a line of
finance with soft loans, guaranteed by the executive
Businesses that have obtained an analysis through government, at 0.95% interest, so that the businesses
the digital assessment programme will be able to can proceed with the planned actions. Moreover, the
access a personalised digital assessment, thanks Government will assume the payment of interest for 115
to the grants included in the PDE. The personalised the first two years of the loan.

and communications increased from 712 There are 179 more establishments
in 2021 to 911 in 2022. These almost 200 working in ICT than in 2021.
new establishments basically focus on IT
services (179 more) and, to a lesser extent,
cinematography, video and television programmes, or sound recording and music editing activities
(33 more establishments).

The number of vehicle registrations In 2022, vehicle registrations increased for the
passes the pre-pandemic figure. second consecutive year, allowing the sector
to recover from the decline recorded in 2020.
In total, 4,626 vehicles were registered, 2.4%
more than in 2019. By type of vehicle, car registrations, which are 67% of the total units, remained
practically stable compared with 2021. Motorcycles are the second largest category of vehicle
registrations (21% of the total) and increased 15.1% in 2022, exceeding the pre-pandemic figures.
All the categories related to economic activity and business investment plans grew (vans, lorries and Andorran economy: developments in the main sectors | XII. Services
special vehicles). Also the number of snow bike registrations (from 9 to 24) due to the reactivation
of ski tourism.

This increase in registrations meant that the total number of registered vehicles grew 2.3%. Per 1,000
inhabitants (estimated population), there are 1,168 units including all vehicles, and 787 counting
only cars. This means that on average there are more vehicles than residents in this country.