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Developing a Shared Approach to Flat Rates for Office and Administration, Staff and Other Cost Categories
Working together towards harmonised, simplified and clarified programme financial management in the future.
European Territorial Cooperation programmes have agreed to join efforts and work together towards harmonised, simplified and clarified programme financial management for the future. The main objectives of these joint efforts are to:
- Develop a shared proposal as input for the new regulations for the methodology for implementation of a flat rate for office and administrative costs as a percentage of staff costs
- Develop agreed fact sheets to serve as guidelines in covering the main cost categories and budget lines (i.e. reaching an agreement on shared definitions, scope and methods for addressing the main cost categories)
- Develop a shared approach to State Aid in order to promote the principles of simplification, harmonisation and clarification in programme financial management
The first ideas were collected from ETC programmes in 2010 and elaborated further. They were presented and discussed during the future finance working group meeting on 07-08 April 2011 as components of a broader event, which also covered developing shared and standard approaches to FLC. The target groups for this exercise were finance staff from JTS, MA and staff responsible for quality assurance and designing FLC systems in MS.
These proposals have been further elaborated and discussed throughout Europe at various finance events in 2010 and 2011 and the results will be presented at the second meeting of the finance working group on 28-29 March 2012, in Madrid
For more information and the draft agenda, you can have a look at our events section or contact Katarzyna Pelc, firstname.surname@interact-eu.net.
