Preparatory Visits (PV Sample Clauses

Preparatory Visits (PV. (See also Preparatory Visit activities arrangements under Section I.2.C of this document) The grant made available under the present agreement may be used for carrying out PVs only under the following conditions: • The PV will take place to or from eligible partner institutions (see Article 7 of the agreement) in countries distinct from that of the Beneficiary; • For each approved PV flow, the visiting or visited institution must be in a Member State of the European Union (visits between institutions not belonging to a Member State of the European Union are therefore not eligible ); • PVs are not permitted with partner departments which are already involved in activities which are approved under the present agreement (i.e. a visit can take place to a partner institution already involved in activities which are approved under the present agreement as long as the object of the visit concerns departments with which no IC co-operation activities exist under the present agreement); • Each preparatory visit may not last more than three weeks (i.e. 21 days). Within an eligible PV activity the following shall not be considered as eligible expenditure: • all costs related to a visit to an ineligible partner; • all costs related to a visit between two non EU institutions; • all costs related to a visit to an institution from the same eligible country; • all costs incurred after the maximum duration of the visit, i.e. 21 days; • all costs related to research activities. Within an eligible PV activity the following shall be considered as eligible expenditure: • travel, accommodation and subsistence costs incurred during the time of the visit; • administrative costs.