Division 4 CATEGORIES OF MANAGEMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND CONTROL EXPENDITURE ELIGIBLE FOR FINANCING UNDER ‘TECHICAL AND ADMINSITRATIVE ASSISTANCE’

The following costs shall be eligible for financing under the technical assistance provided for in Article 18 of Council Decision 2004/904/EC:

1. (a)

   costs linked to preparation, selection, evaluation, and follow-up of the actions co-financed by the European Refugee Fund. This may include studies, seminars, information actions, evaluation, and the acquisition and leasing or purchase of computerised systems for management, monitoring and evaluation;

2. (b)

   costs linked to audits and on-the-spot controls and checks of the projects;

3. (c)

   costs linked to the visibility of European Refugee Fund co-financing;

4. (d)

   expenditure on meetings of committees relating to the implementation of the multiannual and annual programmes. This expenditure may also include the costs of experts and other participants in these committees, where the chairperson of such committees considers their presence essential to the effective implementation of the cofinancing of the Fund.

Expenditure linked to remuneration, including social security contributions, are eligible only in the following cases:

• permanent officials, temporarily seconded by formal decision of the relevant public authority, entrusted with performing the tasks listed in points (a) and (b) above,

• temporary agents or private sector staff employed solely for the purpose of performing the tasks listed in points (a), (b) and (d) above.

The period of secondment or employment may not exceed the final date for the eligibility of expenditure laid down in the cofinancing decision adopted by the Commission.

Expenditure on the salaries of civil servants or other public officials in carrying out such actions is not eligible if such actions arise from the statutory responsibilities of the public authority or the authority's day-to-day management, monitoring and control tasks.