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V.I.D.E.O. Video-cv to Increase and Develop Employment Opportunities. LLP ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL RULES. First Transnational Workshop Rome, 18-19 March 2009. Project total budget. LLP Programme funding procedure. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
V.I.D.E.O.Video-cv to Increase and Develop Employment
Opportunities
First Transnational WorkshopRome, 18-19 March 2009
LLP ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL RULES
LLP GRANT OWN FUNDS
PARTNER staff costs
Indirect Costs
other INCLUDING EQUIPMENT
subcontract travels TOTAL
BUDGET 69,56% 30,44%
P0CITY OF ROME (IT)
36.400,00 4.000,00 11.300,00 65.000,00 8.260,00 124.960,00 86.734,00
38.226,00
P1EUROINNOVANET (IT)
47.040,00 4.000,00 0,00 8.960,00 900,00 60.900,00 42.272,00
18.628,00
P2 TRUST (IT) 49.600,00 4.000,00 0,00 6.000,00 1.800,00 61.400,00 42.619,00
18.781,00
P3ARGE PLON (DE)
14.460,00 1.000,00 0,00 2.000,00 3.940,00 21.400,00 15.000,00
6.400,00
P4CJD EUTIN (DE)
24.660,00 1.000,00 0,00 4.000,00 6.040,00 35.700,00 25.000,00
10.700,00
P5 IEKEP (EL) 24.300,00 2.000,00 3200 9.000,00 5.500,00 44.000,00 30.541,00
13.459,00
P6POLYDYNAMO (EL)
18.850,00 2.000,00 7400 7.000,00 4.850,00 40.100,00 27.834,00
12.266,00
P7OAKE EUROPE (UK)
30.300,00 2.000,00 0,00 4.500,00 6.000,00 42.800,00 30.000,00
12.800,00
TOT 245.610,00 20.000,00 21.900,00 106.460,00 37.290,00 431.260,00
300.000,00 131.260,00
Project total budget
LLP Programme funding procedure
LLP Grant from NA to Project PromoterThe National Agency for LLP Programme will transfer to Project Promoter (City of Rome) the project amount correspondent to the LLP Grant approved (euro 300.000,00) through 3 different tranche of payment:
- 1st tranche 40% of total LLP Grant: Euro 120.000,00after 45 gg from the signing of the Agreement between National Agency and Project Promoter and the submitting, on the side of the promoter, of financial guarantee;- 2nd tranche 40% of total LLP Grant: Euro 120.000,00after 45 gg from the submitting of the Interim report to the National Agency and the submitting, on the side of the promoter, of financial guarantee;- 3rd tranche 20% - balanceafter the submitting of the Final Report to the National Agency and validation of the expenses declared. The total balance will depend on the amount of costs that will be valuated as eligible.
After the signing of agreements between Project Promoter and all partners (2 copies) and after that the Project Promoter has received each tranche from the National Agency, the relative tranche will be transferred from the Project Promoter to each partner.
-1st tranche 40% of total LLP Grant foreseen in each partner’s own budget and ruled in the agreement between Project Promoter and PartnerAfter having received the 1st tranche from the NA;- 2nd tranche 40% of total LLP Grant foreseen in each partner’s own budget and ruled in the agreement between Project Promoter and PartnerAfter having received the 2nd tranche from the NA;- 3rd tranche 20% - balanceAfter having received the total balance calculated by the NA on the base of the total amount of costs valuated as eligible.
LLP Grant from Project Promoter to All partners
Project Eligible Cost categories
Operative Direct Costs
Indirect Costs The indirect costs of the action eligible for Community funding is a flate rate amount set at maximum 7% of the total amount of eligible direct costs. The corresponding costs need not be justified by accounting documents
The eligible direct costs of the action are those directly linked to the execution of the project. They are subdivided in specific categories foreseen in the project total budget approved.
Expenses are considered eligible according to:
– Progress of the project (outcomes/outputs expected and realised)
– Supporting documents provided (receipts/invoices) with respect to the Programme rules
– Conformity to Programme Administrative and Financial rules
Check points of Project financial reporting
On the bases of LLP Programme rules, all projects are requested to submit to the National Agency in Charge for Technical Assistance and Monitoring two main Financial Reports that include also the Activities report and the presentation of related outcomes and outputs:
- The Interim Report (after 12 months)- The Final Report (at the end of the project)
The Interim Report Project period concerned
The Interim Report is the 1st Official Check Point on the project work in progress requested by the
National Agency (NA)
The Report concerns the first 12 months of project implementation.
The period concerned by our financial interim reporting will be from the 1st October 2008 to the
30th September 2009, But
the deadline to submit the Interim Report to the NA will be the
30th November 2009.
The Interim Report Object of the NA evaluation
The Interim Report is the check point to be passed to receive the 2nd financial tranche of the project total budget LLP Grant (40%) from the National Agency.The National Agency will evaluate the Interim Report provided by the project with respect to:
1.some Assessment Principles;2.the total amount of costs declared by the project on the whole: after 12 months, in fact, we are supposed to have spent at least the 70% of the total amount that the project have received with the 1st tranche (40% of the project total budget). If the project has spent less of the 70% of the 40%, the 2nd tranche transfer will be postponed.
! Pay attention
Financial Reporting (Interim and Final) in LDV are referred to the project Total Cost and Budget.
It means that to receive the 2nd tranche (40%) and the final balance after the end of the project (20%), all partners must contribute with their own expenditures (the project total expenditures are the sum of the expenditures made by each partner).
Financial reporting is related to the activities realised by the project on the whole. So each partner must consider itself as a part of a project partnership contributing:
1.to the achievement of all activities planned2.and so, to the achievement of the minimum financial ceiling expected (70% of 40% only for the Interim Report).
The Interim Report NA Assessment Principles
The PRINCIPLE guiding the ASSESSMENT of the Interim Report is the CONFORMITY among aims, products and costs planned and realised.
therefore,
Aspects evaluated by the National Agency will be:
Level of achievement of the aims statedProducts realised compared to products expectedQuality of contents, outputs and outcomes Consistency of expenditures declared with all that has been realised
SPEND AT LEAST 70% OF THE 1st TRANCHEOF LLP CONTRIBUTION RECEIVED
Cooperate to REALISE THE PLANNED PRODUCTS
Cooperate to ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES
General Rules for a successful Interim Report
The information following (Section B) are useful to understand how to account the expenditures made during project implementation and the typology of documents requested that must be collected and created to justify each expenditure declared.
Please consider that:
At Interim REPORTING, as far as the financial account is concerned, the total of project expenditures declared will imply both:
1.the expenditures actually made by each partner;2.the value of financial resources not actually spent but committed by each partner (e.g. By a contract to external experts).
At FINAL REPORTING, THE PERIOD CONCERNED BY THE FINANCIAL REPORT WILL BE THE TWO-YEARS OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (24 months).
It means that the Final reporting will concern all expenditures actually made by each partner from the 1st October 2008 to the 30
September 2010.
In this case each partner will have to provide the Contractor with all documents justifying all expenditures declared, with respect to the rules of the LLP Programme and the deadlines foreseen in the subcontract signed with the Contractor.
SECTION B DETAILED
INFORMATION
Eligible Costs: Direct Costs
Direct Costs are those which are identifiable as specific costs directly linked to the project realisation.
They include 5 specific categories:
1. Staff costs 2. Travel and Subsistence
Costs3. Equipment Costs4. Subcontracting Costs5. Other Costs
Eligible Costs: Indirect Costs
They are not identifiable as specific costs directly linked to the project realisation, but which have nevertheless incurred in connection with eligible direct costs. They may not include any eligible direct cost.
Examples for indirect costs are:
•All costs for equipment related to the administration of the project•Communication costs (postage, fax, telephone, mailing)•Infrastructure costs (rent, electricity) of the premises where the project is being carried out•Office supplies (paper, CD, DVD)•Photocopies
... But when costs are considered “Eligible”?
To be considered as eligible costs of the project, costs must satisfy the following general criteria:
•to be directly linked to the object of the Agreement signed with the National Agency for LLP Programme and included in the project Budget approved;•to be necessary for project realisation and connected with the project (i.e. relevant for the project and be directly connected with the execution of the project in accordance with the work plan);•to be reasonable and justified and must accord with the principles of sound financial management, in particular in terms of value for money and cost – effectiveness;•to be generated during the lifetime of the project;•to be actually incurred by the beneficiaries (partner);•to be identifiable and verifiable;•to be related to activities involving the eligible countries in the Programme.
... And when costs are considered “Not Eligible”?
Under no circumstance can the following types of costs be considered as eligible:
•return on capital;•debt and debt service charges;•provisions for losses or potential future liabilities (provisions for contractual and moral obligations, fines, financial penalties and legal costs);•interest owed;•doubtful debts;•exchange losses;•VAT, unless the applicant can show that he is unable to recover it (by declaration);•costs declared by the applicant and covered by another action or work programme receiving a community grant;•excessive or reckless expenditure;•purchase of capital assets;•in the case of rental or leasing of equipment, the cost of any buy-out option at the end of the lease or rental period;•costs of opening and operating bank accounts;•costs incurred in relation to any document required to be submitted with the application;•costs related to “silent partners” involved in the project.
1. Staff costs: definition
“…comprise any salary and/or remuneration paid to
persons employed by a partner organisation or working
regularly or recurrently for the project. This figure should
include salary costs (for salaried and other personnel)
which is paid under the personnel budget (for normal
accountancy purposes) plus all the usual contributions
paid by the employer, such as social security
contributions, social fees, holiday payments and pension
costs but must exclude any bonuses, incentive payments
or profit-sharing schemes.”
This figure must not include costs relating to persons
undertaking subcontracted tasks.
! How to account staff costs
Staff costs must be accounted considering the real daily staff cost
rates,
but
these rates cannot exceed the maximum rate indicated by the
Community per category (Managers, Technical, Researchers, etc.).
Real daily staff cost rates are based on average rates corresponding
to the applicant’s usual policy of remuneration, comprising salaries
plus social security charges and others statutory costs included in the
remuneration.
These costs result from multiplying the number of days with the real
daily staff cost rate, referring to each person representing each
professional category.
Not statutory costs like bonuses, lease car, expense account schemes,
incentive payments or profit-sharing schemes are excluded.
! Pay attention
Staff costs are those relating to the following categories:
1.Statutory staff, having either a permanent or a
temporary employment contract with the partner.
2.Temporary staff, recruited through a specialised
external agency.
3.Costs related to staff working through subcontracting
shall be included under the category “Subcontracting
costs”.
4.Staff members of Project partners are not allowed to
operate in a subcontracting capacity for the project.
Please remind that you do not have to attach evidences of the staff cost declared, since Staff Costs are not submitted to a detailed financial report. In any case it could happen that the National Agency would ask the Promoter, and to all partners, to look over some specific administrative and financial documents.
Therefore, it is necessary that all partners have available in any moment, all kind of documents useful to support the reporting of expenses declared, as for example:
invoices or wage packets, contracts for collaboration, time sheets, internal service order.
...to sum upWhen accounting staff costs, please remind to:
•refer to the actual salary for each professional figure involved in the realisation of project activities;
•provide, for each person, the date of start and end of the involvement of the person on project activities (consistently with start/end date of project. In this case please refer only to one year of project implementation);
•indicate number of working days spent on project activities for each person;
•indicate the real salary per day, for each person;
•cover the total amount (LLP grant + own funds) available for staff const in your own budget.
STAFF COSTS ARE REPORTED FILLING IN THE TABLE G3
(See EXAMPLE following)
Staff costs – Table G3
example
G.3: Declaration of Staff Costs
Organisation
Partner No. (required)
Country Code Reference Name of
the PersonName of activities
Start date of activities
(dd/mm/yyyy)
End date of activities
(dd/mm/yyyy)
Number of working
days for the project
(full-time equivalent1)
Salary (including employer
costs) or full-time
rate per day2
TOTAL COST
EuroInnovanet 1 IT
1
Irene Salerno
RESEARCHER ……Please indicate the role of the
person within the project referring to the profiles (manager, researcher,
administrative, etc.) you have in your budget
PLEASE NOTE THAT A PERSON CANNOT COVER MORE ROLES BUT MORE PERSONS CAN COVER ONE
ROLE
1/10/2008 30/09/2009 40 100,00 4000,00
TRUST 2 IT 2 Vincenzo Leone RESEARCHER 1/10/2008 14/08/2009
50 90,00 4500,00
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE (TABLE G3 STAFF COSTS)When reporting staff costs using the Table, you have to remind
that:The final total cost you declare must result fromLdV grant + own funds = total amount of staff costse.g. if your own budget is:
Total Staff Cost LdV Grant Own Funds
37.599,00 23.461,78 14.137,22
You have to account personnel for 37.599,00 Euro.
Obviously, for the Interim report you do not have to spend the total amount available for staff costs, but only a part of it. The rest will be accounted at Final Reporting (end of project)
Please remind that in general the persons who travelled (e.g. to participate to project workshops or meetings) and that you have indicated in table G4 - Travel costs - must be included in the list of the Table G3). Otherwise you have to declare that the person x who travelled to y is part of the internal staff involved in the project but you have decided not to charge it on staff costs.
It is not possible to charge travel costs of external experts on Table G4 (they have to be charged on “other costs” or “subcontracting” consistently with the figures you have in your budget voices.
...further informationSince staff costs generally do not require accounting documents to be justified, the National Agency, in occasion of Interim and Final report, asks all partner to attach to the staff costs account a declaration signed by the Legal Representative, stamped and dated, in which the organisation describes for each professional figure (administrative, managers, technicians, etc.) the detailed composition of the daily salary indicated.
It means that for each professional figure the cost implies, as example, the following items:-Ordinary salary-Social security contributions-Social fees-Holiday payments-Pension costs-Etc…..
Please remind that bonuses, incentive payments or profit-sharing tasks must be excluded from the staff costs.
2. Travel and
subsistence costs They imply journeys directly linked to the project activities foreseen in project workplan.
Journeys are strictly referred to the internal staff of each organisation partner.
Subsistence costs must not exceed maximum daily subsistence rates per country defined in the administrative-financial guide for the LLP Programme.
TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE COSTS ARE REPORTED IN THE SAME TABLE (See Example TG4 following)
Travel costs
Travel costs for staff taking part in the project considered, provided that they are in line with partner’s usual practices on travels costs.
Costs may be claimed only for journeys directly connected to specific and clearly identifiable project-related activities.
Reimbursement is based on real costs, independent of the means of travel chosen (rail, bus, taxi, plane, hire car).
Partners are required to use the cheapest means of travel (e.g use Apex tickets for air travel and take advantage of reduced fares, where this is not the case then a full explanation should be provided).
For information on charging Travel costs for non-staff members, please refer to “Other Costs” and “Subcontracting Costs”.
! How to account travel costsThe travel cost for a journey should include all costs and all means
for travel from the point of origin to the point of destination (and vice versa) and may include visa fees, travel insurance and cancellation costs.If, as a member of the partnership, you are participating to a meeting and, so, travelling, please remind, when accounting your travel:
A - to provide all detailed information requested as:
•Name of the person/persons who travelled (they should be part of the staff declared in accounting staff costs);
•Place of origin and place of destination;
•Period concerned (from_to_);
•Total days spent (please remind that a Full day includes an overnight stay, so calculate days referring to numbers of nights);
•Object of the travel (e.g. 1st transnational workshop);
•Travel costs (all tickets for transports from/to the airport e.g. train, flight but also taxi);
•Subsistence costs (accommodation, local transports, meals).
! How to account travel costs
B – To attach to your report a copy of each of the following items per travel:
•Boarding cards of all travels reported and evidence of the payment made (example: invoice of the travel agency or copy of the ticket with the related cost);
•Invoices or receipt of all meals, dated;
•Receipt of taxis, bus, underground, etc, dated;
•Invoices of all hotels, including check in and out date, number of nights, name of the person.
Further information on Transport type
Expenses for private car travel (personal or company cars), where substantiated and where the price is not excessive, will be refunded as follows:
•either a rate per km in accordance with the internal rules of the organisation concerned up to a max of Euro 0,22;
•or the correspondent price of a rail, bus or plane ticket. Only one ticket shall be reimbursed, independently of the number of people travelling in the same vehicle.
For hire cars (maximum category B or equivalent) or taxis: the actual cost where this is not excessive compared with other means of travel (also taking account of any influencing factors i.e. Time, excessive luggage).
Reimbursement take place independently of the number of people travelling in the same vehicle (it means that will considered 1 person only).
TRAINS or underground/bus ticket airport-hotel (A/D) are to be reported as travel.
TAXI, from the airport to the hotel or to the airport to Home, are to be declared as travel.
Taxi or bus or underground for short trips inside the city, are to be reported as subsistence and so are included in the maximum rate per day.
Please remind that in the taxi invoice must be clearly indicated:
•Itinerary•Date•Total amount
Subsistence costs
Subsistence costs are for staff taking part in the action.
As far as subsistence costs are concerned (hotel + meals + local transports) the maximum of the costs eligible in a country are fixed by the European Communion.
If the amount spent per day overcomes the maximum eligible, the balance won’t be financed. The rate applied is the one from the destination country, i.e. Where accommodation costs are incurred.
For information on charging subsistence costs for non-staff members please refer to “Other cost or Subcontracting costs”.
Country visited Rate per day (Euro)
IT 314
DE 279
EL 260
UK 389
Costs may be claimed only for journeys directly connected to specific and clearly identifiable project-related activities.
Reimbursement is based on the existing internal rules of the partner organisation, which may be on an actual cost (reimbursement of receipts) or daily allowance basis.
In either case, proof of attendance and overnight accommodation will be required to substantiate declared costs at reporting stage.
Subsistence rates cover accommodation, meals and all local travels costs (but not local travel costs incurred to travel from point of origin to point of destination).
In calculating the number of days for which to apply the daily subsistence rate it should be noted that a FULL day normally includes an overnight stay.
Referring to travel and subsistence costs, the figures included in our project budget are the following:
Purpose of the journey Country destination
Start up 1st Transnational workshop IT
Local dissemination seminars UK
Local dissemination seminars DE
2nd Transnational workshop + Dissemination Seminar EL
EVALUATION FOCUS GROUPS EL/IT
Final Conference IT
ALL THIS FIGURES REFER TO TRAVELS MADE BY INTERNAL STAFF ONLY
Table G.4 – Travel and subsistence costs
example
Partner N. Name of Person (one person per trip per
line)
From (dd/mm/yyyy)
To (dd/mm/y
yyy)
Duration (days+OVERNIGH
T STAYS)
City (departure)
Country Code
(departure)
City (destinatio
n)
1 Giuseppe Metitiero 18/03/2009 20/03/2009 2** Rome IT Athens
Country code (destination)
Objective of the Trip
Transport Types
Travel Costs Official subsistence rate /24 hours Subsistence Costs TOTAL COST
Gr 2nd Workshop AirplaneTaxi
Underground
400,00*** You do not have to fill in this column: the system will calculate automatically if you have spent more than expected. Please pay
attention to the Rate per day fixed by the UE
50,00 450,00
* 1 Travel for 1 person (2 ways are implied!!!!!!!)** to calculate duration you have to refer to the number of nights spent in the City*** the amount indicated is the total of Airplane + taxi + underground. PLEASE DO NOT SPLIT THIS VOICES SINCE THEY REFER TO THE SAME TRAVEL: YOU HAVE TO SUM THEM AND TO INDICATE THEM IN THE SAME LINE OF THE TABLE.
3. Equipment costs 1. Purchase, rent or lease of equipment (new or second-hand),
including the installation, maintenance and insurance costs, is considered:
•only when specific and necessary for achieving the goals of the project/action. Equipment costs must always be duly justified;•provided that it is written off in accordance with the tax and accounting rules applicable to the beneficiary and generally accepted for items of the same kind. Only the portion of the equipment’s depreciation corresponding to the duration of the action and the rate of actual use for the purposes of the action may be taken into account.
2. All equipment related to the administration of the project (i.e. PC’s, portables, etc.) and all equipment purchased before the start of a project is covered by indirect costs.
Referring to Equipment costs, the figures included in our project budget are the following:
Description Justification
Digital video camera To realise videocurriculum
Spotlights (Kit)+plotter To floodlight the video session
Radio microphone (kit) To realise the video session
Video system AVID platform To realise videocurriculum
Table G.5 – Equipment
example
Tables G 5. Equipment Costs (only depreciation)
Partner No. (required)
ReferenceNature&
Specification
PurposePeriod of use in the Project
(months)
Depreciation time (months)
Purchase cost
Purchase date
(dd/mm/yyyy)
Depreciation
Amount
Degree of use in Project
(%)
TOTAL COST
please indicate only your number as a partner
1
Please indicate the item: refer
to the items you have in your budget
for equipment
The purpose must be coherent
with project activities
Please indicate the number of months you
have used the item declared (starting from the purchase
date)
Please refer to your National law: in each
country there is a norm ruling the
depreciation of Equipment. You have to indicate the
total number of months fixed
by your national law
Please indicate the total cost you
have paid
Indicate the date
of the Purchase referring
to the invoice
you have
0,00
please indicate
the degree of use: refer to what
has been indicated in your budget
0,00
2 0,00 0,00
Note1: do not insert the name of your organisation partner. ONLY THE NUMBER AS REQUESTED and do not change the number provided under the column reference
Note 2: the depreciation rate and the usage rate should be the ones approved in your budget under the voice Equipment
Note 3: if you do not fill ALL columns, the cost will be considered not eligible. PLEASE REMIND THAT THE “NATURE” MUST BE COHERENT WITH THE FIGURES FORESEEN IN YOUR BUDGET UNDER EQUIPMENT COSTS SO AS THE PURPOSE MUST BE COHERENT WITH PROJECT ACTIVITES.
4. Other costs
They imply all costs:
• Not covered under any other budget heading• Necessary to project activities
1- In particular are costs arising directly:
• from requirements imposed by the grant agreement are eligible (dissemination of information, specific evaluation of the action, audits, translations, reproduction, etc.), including the costs of any financial services (especially the of financial guarantees);
• from the realisation of specific actions or of products/results of the project are eligible (i.e. the organisation of seminars – when they are foreseen as a product/result and where the task-related costs are easily identifiable -; the production of proceedings of a seminar, the production of a video, the purchase of product-related consumables – reams of paper for printing of publications, blank DVD, etc..
2 – Only activities which are specific and necessary for achieving the goals of the project are considered.
3 – When travel and/or subsistence costs are reimbursed to third parties, the rules applicable to staff of partners will be applied.
Referring to Other costs, the figures included in our project budget are the following:
Description
1 Plotter for Final Conference
Table G.6 – Other CostsTable G6 Other costs
Partner No. (required)
Item Purpose Reference Cost date(date of the invocice)
Cost Degree ofuse in
Project (%)TOTAL COST
1 Plotter for Final Conference
To realise project final conference
1 12/09/2010 300 100% 300
Note1: do not insert the name of your organisation partner ONLY THE NUMBER AS REQUESTED and do not change the number provided under the column reference
Note 2: if you do not fill in the other columns (description, justification, cost date, etc.), the cost will be considered not eligible. PLEASE REMIND THAT ITEM AND PURPOSE MUST TO BE COHERENT WITH THE FIGURES FORESEEN IN YOUR BUDGET UNDER OTHER COSTS.
4. Subcontracting costs: definition
“Any amount paid to an external body or
organisation [or individuals who may be self-
employed] carrying out a specific one-off task
in connection with the project (e.g. translation,
expert consultancy, interpretation, design &
printing, conference/seminar organisation)”.
In order to maintain the concept of the project partnership, the management and the general administration of the project may not be subcontracted.
Costs are based on a verifiable estimate or, if the subcontractor is identified, on the basis of an offer. The estimate/offer will cover all costs (i.e. staff costs plus travel costs)
THESE COSTS MUST BE SUPPORTED BY SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS (CONTRACTS AND INVOICES) THAT MUST BE ATTACHED TO THE INTERIM REPORT.
! How to account subcontracting costs
For each cost declared under the voices foreseen in subcontracting (Experts, Translations, Printing/Publishing, etc), please provide attached to your Final Financial Report the following accounting documents:
1. Copy of the contract stipulated with the external experts/organisations. In this case a purchase order has the same value of the agreement.
2. Evidence of the payment made towards the external experts/organisations providing the service (OPTIONAL).
3. Invoice/receipt of the external expert/organisations that provided the service.
Contracts (or similar documents) you stipulate need to be formulated with respect to the indications provided in the Administrative and Financial Handbook of the Programme.
Subcontracting agreements (to be provided along with relevant invoices) must include, as a minimum, the following information:
title and code of the project; purpose of the Agreement (object); dates on which the Agreement begins and ends; amount to be paid; detailed description of the costs on which this figure is based; work schedule/completion phases; payment arrangements (one or more advance payments,
staggered payments, etc.); clauses in respect of non-performance or late completion.
Please remember that all subcontracts must clearly indicate in the object that the activity requested is referred to the project “VIDEO-CV, financed within LLP Programme 2007-2013 Leonardo da Vinci Multilateral Projects - Transfer of Innovation (TOI), Project ID.: LLP-LDV/TOI/08/IT/456
All subcontracts must imply a period included within the 24 months of project life and must clearly indicate the kind of activity requested and the amount allocated. Please remind that if you do not follow the indications provided, agreements will not evaluated eligible. Please remind that is also requested a translation in English or French of all subcontracts that are in languages difficult to be understood (e.g. Latvian, German, Polish, Greek, Bulgarian, etc).Where it is not possible to conclude a full subcontracting agreement, for example, the subcontracting of printing activities, then as a minimum, evidentiary documentation (e.g. quotation or purchase orders and final invoice) should be provided and should aim to include the majority of the above information demands.
VAT custom duties and other taxes
As regards payment of duties and taxes incurred by the Contractor and partnership members, firstly we point out that Leonardo da Vinci fund granted by European Commission, since it is not paid in relation to the provision of a particular product or service, it is not subject to VAT regulations and any tax deduction. Vat, other duties and taxes can be charged to the project only where they are a final charge, not recovered by the Contractor or partnership members (in this case the expense is to be charged as a gross amount). It is not possible charging to the project VAT and other duties and taxes, if they are not a real cost for the organisations (in this case the expense is to be charged as a net amount). It means that
When presenting invoices related to the expenses declared in Operating costs and Subcontracting costs:
if VAT is not deductible for you: provide a declaration in which you state this and maintain in your financial tables the total cost (net + VAT);
if VAT is deductible for you: indicate in your financial table only the net cost (no VAT).
Subcontracting costs: figuresReferring to Subcontracting costs, the figures included in our project
budget are the following: Subcontract Task description
1 Translations (all national languages to english)
5 Leaflet Printing
6 Multilingual Brochure printing
Printing of Final Handbook and DVD
7 Audio-Video Technicians
8 Interpreters for Final Conference
9 Catering, hall rental and Coffee break for II workshop and Final Conference
10 Counselling and communication experts
Table G.7 – sub-contracting
example
Table G.7: Sub-contracting Costs
Partner No.
(required)
Sub-contracted ActivitiesStart date of
activities (dd/mm/yyyy)
End date of activities (dd/mm/yyyy)
Reference TOTAL COST
9 Translations EN/IT for website 1/02/2009 10/09/2009 1 2.000,00
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Note 2: PLEASE REMIND THAT THE DESCRIPTION MUST TO BE COHERENT WITH THE FIGURES FORESEEN IN YOUR BUDGET UNDER SUBCONTRACTING COSTS. THE START-END DATE ARE COMPULSORY AND MUST BE COHERENT WITH THE PERIOD CONCERNED BY THE INTERIM OR FINAL REPORT.
Indirect costs: general info
They are not identifiable as specific costs directly linked to the project realisation, but which have nevertheless incurred in connection with eligible direct costs. They may not include any eligible direct cost.
Examples for indirect costs are:
•All costs for equipment related to the administration of the project•Communication costs (postage, fax, telephone, mailing)•Infrastructure costs (rent, electricity) of the premises where the project is being carried out•Office supplies (paper, CD, DVD)•Photocopies
There is not a specific table to account them in details.
YOU HAVE TO DECLARE THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU HAVE IN YOUR OWN BUDGET (or a part of it) IN THE Tabel G2 b that you will find in the format that you will receive (is the only cost you have to declare in TG2, the others are calculated automatically).
Invoices or receipts are not requested, but do not forget to include in your financial report the total amount you have in
your budget under this voice.
IMPORTANT FINAL NOTES
ANNEXES TO THE INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORT:
ALL PARTNERS ARE REQUESTED TO SEND SOME SPECIFIC ANNEXES TO THE FINANCIAL TABLE:
• a declaration signed by the Legal Representative, stamped and dated, in which the organisation describes for each professional figure involved in the project and declared in staff costs (administrative, managers, technicians, etc.) the detailed composition of the daily salary indicated;
• documents justifying the expenditures declared in subcontracting costs: e.g. Contracts + invoice (plus, if the case, the declaration on VAT).
IMPORTANT FINAL NOTES
PLEASE REMIND THAT FOR BOTH THE INTERIM AND FINAL REPORT, ALL DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING THE EXPENCES DECLARED IN THE EXCEL FILE (E.G. CONTRACTS, INVOICES, ETC.) MUST BE:
-READABLE, THAT IS THE PHOTOCOPIES MUST BE CLEAR;- TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH (ESPECIALLY FOR THE LANGUAGES THAT USE PARTICULAR CHARACTERS).
ALL EXPENDITURES DECLARED MUST BE PROVIDED IN EURO. ALL PARTNERS THAT MEAN TO CHANGE THEIR NATIONAL VALUE IN EURO MUST GO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
http://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/
HERE YOU WILL FIND THE MONTHLY EXCHANGE RATE FIXED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. TO MAKE THE CALCULUS YOU HAVE TO REFER TO IT.
IN GENERAL IS QUITE STRATEGICAL TO MAKE THE NATIONAL AGENCY IN THE CONDITION TO UNDERSTAND ALL DOCUMENTS YOU ARE ATTACHING TO YOUR FINANCIAL REPORT, BACAUSE EVERYTHING NOT CLEAR WILL BE CONSIDERED NOT ELIGIBLE AND MONEY WILL BE CUT.
OUR INTEREST IS TO RECEIVE THE 2ND TRANCHE BECAUSE THE WORK HAS BEEN MADE AND IS A GOOD WORK.......
SO, PLEASE SEND ORGANISED AND CLEAR DOCUMENTS