Call for proposals for projects to preserve the sites of Nazi concentration camps as historical memorials
Date: 2001-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, Jew, National Socialism, commemoration, crime against individuals, historic site

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Call for proposals for projects to preserve the sites of Nazi concentration camps as historical
memorials

(2001/C 374/06)

1. CONTEXT

(cid:151) What impact is the project likely to have on the public?

Under Article A-3035 of
the European Union’s General
Budget, the Commission can award grants for projects to
preserve, as historical memorials, the sites of the former
Nazi concentration camps and the archives associated with
the deportations to them. Does your organisation have a
project which could be eligible for one of these grants?

2. ELIGIBILITY

(cid:151) How is the EU assistance to be acknowledged?

(cid:151) What are the organisation’s real financial needs?

(cid:151) How much (minimum is 20 % of the project is to be

financed from sources other than the EU?

Your project could be eligible for a grant if the organisation
established is in one or more of the Member States of the
European Union or candidate country which;

(cid:151) How (if a grant were received for a previous year) is the

previous project to be rated?

(cid:151) has as its principal aim to keep alive the memory of the
victims of the Nazi concentration camps or to study the
phenomenon from a historical perspective,

(cid:151) has its own legal status at the time the application is

submitted,

(cid:151) is non-profit-making,

(cid:151) is non-governmental.

3. SELECTION CRITERIA

Before we can award an organisation a grant, we need to
examine:

(cid:151) What is the financial and technical capacity to complete

the project?

(cid:151) How much money is available?

When all the applications for a grant have been assessed
according to these criteria, et will be decided how best to
use the available funds.

4. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

4.1. Grants are awarded on a strictly annual basis. If a
grant was awarded last year this does not mean that
it will be this year. Nor will a grant award be auto-
matically awarded next year if one was granted this
year.

i) articles of association;

4.2. The total budget available is EUR 350 000.

ii) previous year’s financial statements;

4.3. The number of beneficiaries in 2001 was 31.

iii) detailed programme of activities;

iv) detailed estimates of the project’s income and expen-

diture.

In deciding how much money (if any) to grant the organi-
sation, account should be taken of the following criteria:

(cid:151) To what extent will

improve the under-
the project
standning of present and future generations of what
took place in the camps and why?

(cid:151) How good is the project and how well implemented?

4.4. The application must be for a project

starting
between 1 July 2002 and 15 December 2002 and
finishing before 31 July 2003.

4.5. The application, and the supporting documents, must

be in one of the EU languages.

4.6. When applying for a grant a budget must be
included, in euro, giving details of both income and
expenditure for the project. Total estimated expen-
diture must equal the total funding expected, from
all
grant
application). A minimum of 20 % must come from
sources other
the European
than the budget of
Union.

the Commission

(including

sources

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4.7. The budget must not include expenditure before or
after the period during which the project is to be
carried out.

(cid:151) exchange losses, except where the agreement

makes explicit provision for them,

4.8. The following direct costs are (cid:145)eligible(cid:146) (i. e. they can

be taken into account):

(cid:151) contributions in kind. However,

these may be
taken into account when setting the amount of
the grant,

(cid:151) the cost of staff assigned to the project, corre-
sponding to real
security
charges and other costs making up remuneration,

salaries plus

social

(cid:151) inordinate or ill-considered costs.

(cid:151) travel and subsistence costs for staff taking part in

the operation,

4.11. The right is reserved to award a grant of less than the

amount requested.

(cid:151) the costs of consumables and supplies,

(cid:151) expenditure on subcontracting, provided that the
Commission has given advance written agreement
for subcontracting,

(dissemination of

(cid:151) costs deriving directly from the requirements of
the agreement
information,
specific evaluation of the operation, translation,
reproduction, etc.), including, where appropriate,
financial service costs (in particular the cost of
financial guarantees), but not including exchange
risks,

(cid:151) a (cid:145)contingency reserve(cid:146) of no more than 5 % of

direct costs eligible.

4.9. Only an amount no greater than 7 % of the total
amount of eligible direct costs may be taken into
account as indirect costs. However,
indirect costs
they include costs assigned to
are not eligible if
another item of the budget. Nor may they be taken
into account if the Commission is paying the organi-
sation a grant for its operating costs under another
budget line.

4.10. The following expenditure is not eligible:

(cid:151) capital investment costs,

(cid:151) money set aside for possible future losses or

debts,

(cid:151) the payment of interest owed,

(cid:151) the repayment of debts,

(cid:151) incurring debts that are doubtful,

4.12. A grant of more than 80 % of eligible costs cannot be
In 2001, the average grant was approxi-

awarded.
matively 42 %.

4.13.

If the project is awarded a grant, an agreement will
be send to you expressing the grant both as an
amount
in euro and as a percentage of eligible
costs and, setting out the conditions under which it
is to be paid and used.

4.14. As part of this agreement the person authorised to
represent the organisation must undertake to provide
evidence that the grant has been correctly used and
to allow the Commission and/or
the Court of
Auditors of the European Communities to inspect
the organisation’s accounts.

4.15.

the organisation receives a grant,

If
it must be
publicly acknowledged in written material and at
events
for which financial assistance has been
received from the European Union.

4.16. Once the person authorised to represent the organi-
sation has signed and returned the agreement to us,
80 % of the grant will be paid within 60 days. The
balance will be paid within 60 days of the receipt
and approval of a final report and financial statement
of all eligible costs together with a full statement of
revenue and expenditure, which must be sent to us
within 90 days of completion of the project.

4.17.

If money is spent on items that do not figure in the
agreement the Commission can ask for part or all of
the grant to be repaid.

4.18.

If, in the end, less is spent on the project than the
agreed amount,
ask for
repayment of part or all of the grant.

the Commission will

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5. PROCEDURE FOR APPLYING FOR A GRANT

(cid:151) previous year’s financial statements (balance sheet,

5.1. Application should be made on a special form. Which

may be obtained from the following address:

European Commission
Secretariat General
BREY 9/232
B-1049 Brussels.

The form is also available at the following Internet
address:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgc/
subvention/en/subv.htm

5.2. Together with the appliccation please enclose the

organisation’s:

(cid:151) programme of activities,

(cid:151) annual budget,

profit and loss accounts),

(cid:151) statutes, constitution or articles of association.

5.3.

If the organisation has received a Commission grant in
the past, a further grant will only be awarded on
prevision of evidence that
the previous grant was
properly used.

5.4. You will be notified within three months of

the
deadline below whether or not a grant has been
the
awarded.
reasons for this decision will be forwarded to you in
writing.

the project has not been selected,

If

5.5. The form and the documents forming part of

the
application should be sent application to the above
address by 31 March 2002 (as evidenced by the
postmark) at the latest.

Extension of electronic licensing for imports of textiles and clothing

(2001/C 374/07)

Paragraph 3 of Article 11 of Annex III of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for
imports of certain textile products from third countries,
introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No
391/2001 of 26 February 2001 (1) states that (cid:145)where a supplier country has entered into administrative
arrangements with the Community concerning electronic licensing the relevant information may be trans-
mitted by electronic means to replace the grant of export licences in paper form(cid:146).

On 1 November electronic licensing was introduced for the following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam (published in OJ C 308, 1.11.2001, p. 16). Since then, the Commission has
entered into the necessary arrangements with the following: Nepal, Taiwan, Russia, Macao and Philippines.
For these, from 1 January 2002, the presentation of the original of the corresponding export licence will
no longer be required for the issuance of import licences by the licensing authorities of Member States,
and these can therefore be issued upon receipt by the competent authorities of Member States of the data
transmitted in electronic form by the supplier countries and confirmation from the Commission that the
amounts requested are available and/or of the validity of the electronic licence. The competent authorities
of the supplier third countries concerned may, however, issue an export licence or any similar documents,
including if they consider it appropriate formal export licences, for the benefit of operators in order to
facilitate the transaction.

For any questions, economic operators are invited to address the licensing authorities of Member States,
which is published in OJ C 78, 18.3.2000, p. 2.

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2001, p. 3.