TITLE VFINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FUNDS
CHAPTER IIIEligibility of expenditure
Article 56Eligibility of expenditure
1.
Expenditure, including for major projects, shall be eligible for a contribution from the Funds if it has actually been paid between the date of submission of the operational programmes to the Commission or from 1 January 2007, whichever is earlier, and 31 December 2015. Operations must not have been completed before the starting date for eligibility.
2.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, in-kind contributions, depreciation costs and overheads may be treated as expenditure paid by beneficiaries in implementing operations under the following conditions:
(a)
the eligibility rules laid down under paragraph 4 provide for the eligibility of such expenditure;
(b)
the amount of the expenditure is justified by accounting documents having a probative value equivalent to invoices;
(c)
in the case of in-kind contributions, the co-financing from the Funds does not exceed the total eligible expenditure excluding the value of such contributions.
3.
Expenditure shall be eligible for a contribution from the Funds only where incurred for operations decided on by the managing authority of the operational programme concerned or under its responsibility, in accordance with criteria fixed by the monitoring committee.
New expenditure, added at the moment of the revision of an operational programme referred to in Article 33, shall be eligible from the date of the submission to the Commission of the request for revision of the operational programme.
4.
The rules on the eligibility of expenditure shall be laid down at national level subject to the exceptions provided for in the specific Regulations for each Fund. They shall cover the entirety of the expenditure declared under the operational programme.
5.
This Article shall be without prejudice to the expenditure referred to in Article 45.