At its today's regular session, the government also discussed the implementation of the financial engineering measure for promoting the development of SMEs and the financial engineering measure for promoting technological and development projects in 2011-2013 period. The government agreed to extend the deadlines for approving loans within both financial engineering measures by 31 December 2015 and transfers of funds to final recipients by 31 December 2017, and agreed to alleviate the criterion regarding the number of employees working for final loan recipients, to increase the allowed ratio between net financial debt and EBITDA of the company and to lower the minimal amount of the loan.