Thursday, June 25, 2009

FP7 - Little participant and big participant distinction

The European Commission decides what's the difference between a little participant and big one establishing an acceptable spread between the average forecasted costs and real certified costs In accordance to the provisions of the Grant Agreements, costs charged by the beneficiary on the basis of a certified methodology approved by the Commission according to the above mentioned criteria are deemed not to differ significantly from the actual costs.

The Commission will also analyse the viability of alternative evaluation methods which could allow the use of average personnel costs for beneficiaries whose methodologies do not fulfil the acceptability criteria adopted hereby but whose overall deviations would remain within a maximum of 5%.

The Commission adopts the following acceptability criteria, for the assessment of the certified
average personnel costs methodologies submitted in accordance to article II.14.1 and to
Annex VII of the Grant Agreements:

- Methodologies in which, for each personnel category, the difference between the average rate and the extreme values (upper and lower rates) is equal or below 5%: the methodology is acceptable
- Methodologies in which, for any personnel category, the difference between the average rate and the extreme values (upper and lower rates) is above 25%: the methodology is not acceptable
- Methodologies not fulfilling the first criterion and in which, for each personnel
category, the difference between the average rate and the extreme values (upper and lower rates) is equal or below 25%: only methodologies applied by
beneficiaries having participated in at least four Sixth Framework Programme projects with an EC contribution10 in each of them equal or above EUR 375.000 or four Seventh Framework Programme projects with an EC contribution11 in each of
them equal or above EUR 375.000 are acceptable

Source Commission decision

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