FAQ BSB JOP 2014-2020 - Beneficiaries 1st Call for Proposals
This page contains answers to questions submitted by interested ENI CBC Black Sea Basin Program applicants, beneficiaries and controllers. The questions and answers are organized by topic of interest and are updated on a regular basis, as we collect new questions. To preview the questions, click on the topic of interest.
General Aspects
According to the EU Regulations in force (REGULATION (EU) No 897/2014), the Lead Beneficiary (Lead Partner in eMS) must assume responsibility for ensuring implementation of the entire project. Details can be found in the Grant contract and the Partnership Agreement.
Technical management
If you intend to perform a modification of the Grant contract, please read the content of the Instruction no 16 from 20 February 2019 to beneficiaries regarding Addendum and Notification.
The modifications accepted through a Notification have an administrative and technical character without a significant impact on the project implementation, its intervention logic (objectives, outputs, results). Examples: changes of the contact person / the legal representative / EUR or national currency bank account / address / name of the controller, or minor changes in the Work plan section of the eMS (without an impact on the main objectives of the project and/or on the total project duration), corrections of inconsistencies between or within different eMS sections of the project, minor transfers of amounts between items within the same budget heading, not having a major impact on the latest approved eMS version of the budget, which may otherwise be subject to an addendum.
Financial management
In the Notification regarding the payment from ENI funds sent by the Managing Authority to the Lead Beneficiary it is specified the email address of the person where the proof of transfer of the amounts to the project Beneficiaries should be sent. The Lead Beneficiary has to make sure that the proof of payment is sent to the respective email address within 7 days from the date of transfer, according to Article 4.6 of the grant contract.
Public Procurement
Bulgarian private Lead Beneficiaries / Beneficiaries (Lead Partner / Partners in eMS) fall under the category of “contracting entities” and comply with the rules for procurement procedures stipulated in the national legislation, particularly they have to comply with Decree no. 160 of 1 July 2016 on the determination of the rules for the examination and evaluation of tenders and conclusion of contracts in the procedure for selecting with a public invitation to beneficiaries of granted financial assistance from the European Structural and Investment Funds. The Decree defines the rules for the examination and evaluation of tenders and the conclusion of the contracts in the process of selecting a contractor with a public invitation under the Management Act of the European Structural and Investment Funds by the beneficiaries of grant European Structural and Investment Funds. The PRAG rules are not applicable for the Bulgarian Beneficiaries in Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin 2014-2020.
Expenditure verification
It is the choice of each beneficiary to decide if they want to assign the same controller for both reports or different controller for each report, providing the public procurement rules (in case of beneficiaries from countries in which decentralised system is applied) are fully observed.