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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 of 8 December 2006 setting out rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund
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1. In determining areas referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006, Member States shall take into consideration at least one of the following criteria:
(a) a high level of poverty and exclusion;
(b) a high level of long-term unemployment;
(c) precarious demographic trends;
(d) a low level of education, significant skills deficiencies and high dropout rates from school;
(e) a high level of criminality and delinquency;
(f) a particularly rundown environment;
(g) a low level of economic activity;
(h) a high number of immigrants, ethnic and minority groups, or refugees;
(i) a comparatively low level of housing value;
(j) a low level of energy performance in buildings.
[F22. Having regard to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006, expenditure for housing in favour of marginalized communities shall be eligible only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) such housing investment is part of an integrated approach and support for housing interventions for marginalized communities takes place together with other types of interventions including interventions in the areas of education, health, social inclusion and employment;
(b) the physical location of such housing ensures spatial integration of these communities into mainstream society and does not contribute to segregation, isolation and exclusion.] ]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 846/2009 of 1 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 setting out rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund.
F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 832/2010 of 17 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 setting out rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund.
Without prejudice to the list of ineligible expenditure in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006, Articles 49 to 53 of this Regulation shall apply in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 to the determination of the eligibility of expenditure under operations selected as part of an operational programme under the European territorial cooperation objective.
The following charges and costs shall be eligible for a contribution from the ERDF:
charges for transnational financial transactions;
where the implementation of an operation requires a separate account or accounts to be opened, the bank charges for opening and administering the account or accounts;
legal consultancy fees, notarial fees, costs of technical and financial experts, and accountancy and audit costs, if they are directly linked to the co-financed operation and are necessary for its preparation or implementation or, in the case of accounting and audit costs, if they relate to requirements imposed by the managing authority;
the cost of guarantees provided by a bank or other financial institution to the extent to which the guarantees are required by national or Community legislation.
Fines, financial penalties and expenditure on legal disputes shall not be eligible.
1. In addition to technical assistance for the operational programme pursuant to Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006, the following expenditure paid by public authorities in the preparation or implementation of an operation shall be eligible:
(a) the costs of professional services provided by a public authority other than the beneficiary in the preparation or implementation of an operation;
(b) the costs of the provision of services relating to the preparation and implementation of an operation provided by a public authority which is itself the beneficiary and which is executing an operation for its own account without recourse to outside service-providers.
2. The public authority concerned shall either invoice the costs referred to in paragraph 1(a) to the beneficiary or certify those costs on the basis of documents of equivalent probative value which permit the identification of real costs paid by that authority for that operation.
[F13. The costs referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 shall be eligible if they do not arise from statutory responsibilities of the public authority or its day-to-day management, monitoring and control tasks and relate either to expenditure actually and directly paid for the co-financed operation or to in-kind contributions, as referred to in Article 51.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 846/2009 of 1 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 setting out rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund.
1. In-kind contributions of a public or private beneficiary shall be eligible expenditure if they fulfil the following conditions:
(a) they consist of the provision of land or real estate, equipment or raw materials, research or professional work or unpaid voluntary work;
(b) their value can be independently assessed and audited.
2. In the case of the provision of land or real estate, the value shall be certified by an independent qualified valuer or duly authorised official body.
3. In the case of unpaid voluntary work, the value of that work shall be determined taking into account the time spent and the hourly and daily rates of remuneration for equivalent work.
Overheads shall be eligible provided that they are based on real costs attributable to the implementation of the operation concerned or on the average real costs attributable to operations of the same type.
Flat rates based on average costs may not exceed 25 % of those direct costs of an operation which can affect the level of overheads. The calculation of flat rates shall be properly documented and periodically reviewed.
[F3The first and second paragraphs shall only apply to operations approved before 13 October 2009 and where the option available to Member States in Article 7(4)(i) of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 has not been exercised.]
Textual Amendments
F3 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 846/2009 of 1 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 setting out rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund.
The depreciation expenditure of depreciable assets directly used for an operation, and incurred during the period of its co-financing, shall be eligible, provided that the acquisition of the assets is not declared as eligible expenditure.]
Editorial Information
X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 of 8 December 2006 setting out rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund (Official Journal of the European Union L 371 of 27 December 2006).
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