Legal provisions of COM(2008)813 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1081/2006 on the European Social Fund to extend the types of costs eligible for a contribution from the ESF

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dossier COM(2008)813 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1081/2006 on the European Social Fund to extend the types of costs eligible for a ...
document COM(2008)813 EN
date May 22, 2009


Article 1

Paragraph 3 of Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1081/2006 is hereby amended as follows:

1.point (b) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(b)in the case of grants:

(i)indirect costs, declared on a flat-rate basis, of up to 20 % of the direct costs of an operation;

(ii)flat-rate costs calculated by application of standard scales of unit cost as defined by the Member State;

(iii)lump sums to cover all or part of the costs of an operation;’;

2.the following subparagraphs shall be added:

‘The options referred to in points (i), (ii) and (iii) of point (b) may be combined only where each of them covers a different category of eligible costs or where they are used for different projects within the same operation.

Costs referred to in points (i), (ii) and (iii) of point (b) shall be established in advance on the basis of a fair, equitable and verifiable calculation.

The lump sum referred to in point (iii) of point (b) shall not exceed EUR 50 000.’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

However, it shall apply with effect from 1 August 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.