Article 50 Expenditure by public authorities relating to the implementation of operationsX1
United Kingdom
In addition to technical assistance for the operational programme pursuant to Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006, the following expenditure paid by public authorities in the preparation or implementation of an operation shall be eligible:
the costs of professional services provided by a public authority other than the beneficiary in the preparation or implementation of an operation;
the costs of the provision of services relating to the preparation and implementation of an operation provided by a public authority which is itself the beneficiary and which is executing an operation for its own account without recourse to outside service-providers.
The public authority concerned shall either invoice the costs referred to in paragraph 1(a) to the beneficiary or certify those costs on the basis of documents of equivalent probative value which permit the identification of real costs paid by that authority for that operation.
The costs referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 shall be eligible if they do not arise from statutory responsibilities of the public authority or its day-to-day management, monitoring and control tasks and relate either to expenditure actually and directly paid for the co-financed operation or to in-kind contributions, as referred to in Article 51.