It is not compulsory to add these budget lines (contingency and administrative), the formula are set-up to ensure their value do not exceed the maximum amount eligible. You may wish to include any value up to the maximum amount, based on your own proposal arrangements.
The first meeting of the Joint Programming Committee – body responsible for the preparation of the Interreg NEXT (Neighbourhood External) Black Sea Basin Programme 2021-2027 – was held on the 29th of January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The eligible participating countries of the new Programme involves ten states from the Black Sea Basin: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine.