Payment application Fiche 5 a 08 April 2013

Payment application Fiche 5 a 08 April 2013

Main changes compared to the period 2007 -2013 • New accounting year • Payment applications cumulative in the accounting year • Mandatory final application for interim payment by 31 July • No interim payment application allowed for the subsequent accounting year if the final one has not been submitted • Where a priority axis covers multiple categories of regions, co-financing rates are established by priority axis and category of region 2

Payment Application (page 4/9) • All the amounts are entered in SFC 2014 in Euro, without decimals • The CA should specify the type of the payment application by ticking the corresponding box • The eligible expenditure should be based on the amounts entered into the accounting system of the CA in that accounting year 3

Expenditure broken down by priority axis and, where applicable, categories of regions (page 5/9) • Two columns to be filled: • Eligible expenditure incurred by beneficiaries and paid. To be filled indepently of whether the beneficiaries are private or public bodies • Total amount of public expenditure incurred • For CF and ETC no breakdown by categories of regions 4

Certificate (page 6/9) • In accordance with the provisions of Article 115 of the CPR • Similar to the arrangements in the current period 5

Application for Payment (page 7/9) • SFC 2014 will automatically calculate the request for payment by applying the co-financing rate of each priority axis and category of regions to the eligible expenditure • However, the payment by the Commission will be limited to 90 % of the requested amount 6

Information on Financial Instruments and State Aids • In accordance with the Financial Regulation, Commission accounts should give a true and fair view of the financial situation • To this end, the applications for payment should provide detailed information on the advances paid since the beginning of the programming period 7

Information on Financial Instruments (page 8/9) • Column 1 and 2 in line with the current period • Moreover, the CA should fill columns 3 and 4 in line with Article 35 • The aim of these two columns is to obtain information in each payment application on the contributions effectively paid 8

Information on State Aids (page 9/9) • Column 1 in line with the current period • Moreover, the CA should fill two additional columns in accordance with article 121 • Amounts reported in column 1 will be recorded in the Commission accounts as prefinancing • Columns 2 and 3 will be used to monitor in each payment application the progress of the use of the advances by the beneficiaries 9

Written comments can be sent until 19 April to: REGIO-DELEGATED-AND-IMPLEMENTINGACTS@ec. europa. eu