€50-mn loan fund at Bangladesh Bank for RMG sector
Bangladesh, with support from France’s Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), has formed a €50-million loan fund in Bangladesh Bank to support safety remediation and environmental and social upgradation of readymade garment (RMG) factories. The programme is called Support Safety Retrofits and Environmental Upgrades in the Bangladeshi RMG Sector Project (SREUP).
The programme will receive technical assistance worth €14.29 million from the European Union, German state-owned development bank Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW), German development agency Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Bangladesh Bank.
Participatingfinancialinstitutions would be provided with pre-finance for disbursing the credit to eligible RMG factories under the loan fund, according to a Bangladesh Bank circular.
Eligible RMG factories would get a loan amount up to €1 million with a maximum 7 per cent interest rate and the loan amount may be extended up to €3 million for major environmental upgradation, Bangla media reported citing the circular.
The maturity of the loan would be usually 3 to 5 years but in case of major environmental up-gradation or any other duly justified and documented case, it might be extended up to seven years.
The circular also said that eligible RMG firms will have to apply for loans to the financial institutions for their sub-projects’ investments based on corrective action plans commitments to the EU retailers platform Accord, North American buyers group Alliance and National Tripartite Plan of Action.
译文如下:
孟加拉国银行为服装部门提供5000万欧元的贷款基金
在法国金融发展机构的支持下,在孟加拉国银行成立了一个5000万欧元的贷款基金,用于支持成衣工厂的安全修复、环境和社会升级。该项目被称为孟加拉国服装部门安全改造和环境升级的支持项目(SREUP)。
该项目将从欧盟、德国国有开发银行KfW、德国国际开发机构GIZ和孟加拉国银行获得价值1429万欧元的技术援助。
孟加拉国银行的一份通知称,参与的金融机构将获得预先融资,用于在贷款基金下向符合条件的服装工厂发放贷款。
孟加拉媒体援引该通知称,符合条件的服装工厂将获得最高100万欧元的贷款,最高利率为7%,贷款额度可能会延长至300万欧元,用于重大环境升级。
贷款期限通常为3至5年,但如果发生重大的环境升级或任何其他正当理由和文件证明的情况,贷款期限可延长至7年。
该通知还表示,符合条件的服装公司必须根据对欧盟零售商平台协议、北美买家集团联盟和国家三方行动计划中纠正行动计划的承诺,向金融机构申请贷款,用于其子项目的投资。
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