Common use of Eligible Expenditures Clause in Contracts

Eligible Expenditures. 1. Subject to Article 8.7 of the Regulations, eligible expenditures of this Programme are: (a) management costs of the Programme Operator in accordance with the detailed budget in the financial plan; (b) payments to projects within this Programme in accordance with the Regulations, this programme agreement and the project contract. 2. Eligible expenditures of projects are those actually incurred by the Project Promoter or project partners, meet the criteria set in Article 8.2 of the Regulations and fall within the categories and fulfil the conditions of direct eligible expenditure set in Article 8.3 of the Regulations, the conditions regarding the use of standard scales of unit costs set in Article 8.4 of the Regulations as well as indirect costs in accordance with Article 8.5 of the Regulations. 3. The first date of eligibility of expenditures in projects shall be set in the project contract in accordance with Article 8.13 of the Regulations. The first date of eligibility of any pre-defined projects shall be no earlier than the date on which the National Focal Point notifies the Donors of a positive appraisal of the pre-defined projects by the Programme Operator in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 6.5 of the Regulations. 4. The maximum eligible costs of the categories referred to in paragraph 1 are set in this programme agreement. Programme specific rules on the eligibility of expenditure set in this programme agreement shall be complied with.