Grant contract
1. Project
Project title: Study visit with the purpose of exchanging valuable knowledge,
experience and know-how on topics related to railway infrastructure
safety and railway traffic management systems between Nordic
National Regulatory and Safety Authorities
Project number: PA-GRO-1039
2. Grant awarded by
Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Network Programme for Public Administration represented by the
Programme Management Body, Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia, Lai 29, 10133 Tallinn,
Estonia
Programme manager: Christer Haglund, Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia
(NCMOE)
Programme coordinator: Madis Kanarbik, Head of Tartu Branch Office of the Nordic Council of
Ministers’ Office in Estonia
3. Grant info
Grant sum: 6000 €
Decision date: 22.05.2017
Advance payment (85% of 5100 €
grant):
Date of first project acitivity: 09.10.2017
4. Grant recipient
Name: Estonian Technical Regulatory Authority
Address: Tallinn Sõle 23A 10614
Telephone: +372 6672011
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E-mail:
[email protected]
Date of first project acitivity: 09.10.2017
5. Grant recipient´s bank requisites
Account holder: Rahandusministeerium
Reference number (if 2800045496
needed):
ID-number / reg. no.: 70000272
Bank: Swedbank
Bank code (SWIFT/BIC): HABAEE2X
Account (IBAN): EE932200221023778606
6. Project manager
Name: Katrin Luuken
Position: Assistant Director General
Telephone: +372 6672011
E-mail:
[email protected]
7. Terms and Conditions
7.1 Purpose of grant
To participate in the Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Network Programme for Public Administration.
The programme is established to promote and strengthen cooperation, exchange of knowledge and
networks between public administration structures on all administrative levels in the NB8 countries
(Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden). The overall goal is to
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increase the global competitive power of the region.
7.2 Special conditions
85% of the grant will be transferred to the recipient within two weeks from the signing of this
contract. Please be informed that the Management Body will not be able to transfer grants during
the period of summer vacations. The recipient has the right to receive the remaining 15% (if needed)
after the submission of a report on the project activities and a financial report to the Director of the
Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia (NCMOE). The report is to be submitted on-line using the
electronic application and reporting system at www.nb8grants.org no later than 30 days after
completion of the mobility activity/end of the project.
If the financial report lacks necessary documents to prove that the grant has been used correctly,
and that the applicant has covered 40% of co-financing of the total eligible budget of the project, the
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recipient is obliged to repay to the NCMOE the part of the grant for which documentation is lacking.
If the recipient is unable to fulfil the planned project activities within one calendar year after the
grant decision notification, the recipient is obliged to repay the grant in full to the NCMOE and make
a new application.
The recipient is responsible for signing this contract and preparing travel arrangements and other
bookings in good time. The recipient is asked to read this document carefully, to fill in the required
information to receive the grant and accept the terms and conditions of this contract at the
NB8-Grants application system environment http://www.nb8grants.org.
The NCMOE does not take responsibility for any complications that arise due to the recipient’s delays
in accepting the grant and contract.
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The recipient is obliged to:
use the grant in accordance to the aims set in the application and the budget stated in the
confirmation letter (the confirmation letter is a part of this contract);
co-finance a min. of 40% of the total eligible costs of the project;
inform the NCMOE about changes in connection to the study visit/ network project and use of
the grant in good time.
submit a project content report to the NCMOE within 30 days after completing the trip/ final
project activity.
submit a financial report (with the copies of transport receipts, hotel receipts and other
receipts) to the NCMOE within 30 days of completing the trip/ final project activity.
7.3 Use of project funding
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The grant recipient is responsible for ensuring that the project funding awarded is spent on the
purposes and project specified above and in accordance with the currently valid conditions
governing such purposes and project. The grant recipient bears this responsibility until it lapses in
accordance with the ordinary Danish legislative provisions on expiry dates.
If project funding is used partly or wholly for other purposes or projects or otherwise in contravention
of the conditions governing the grant, the prior requirements for the grant are regarded as having
become void, with the consequence that the Programme Management Body is entitled to withdraw
the grant and to demand full or partial repayment by the grant recipient of the project funding
allocated.
The above provision also applies if the grant recipient fails to implement the project, or if the
Programme Management Body does not receive and/or approve the documentation for
implementation of the project specified in Section 5 below.
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7.4 Disbursement of project funding
Unless otherwise stipulated in the special conditions of the Grant Confirmation and Conditions, 85%
of the project funding is disbursed upon issuing the Grant Confirmation and Conditions. The
remaining 15% is disbursed when the Programme Management Body has received and approved
documentation, in the form of a final report and accounts establishing that the project has been
implemented and completed and that the goal for which the grant was awarded has been achieved.
Disbursement of project funding is effected according to the conditions mentioned above (1. and 2.)
If the project is implemented at a lower cost than the grant sum, any surplus project funding belongs
to the Programme and must be repayed to the Programme Management Body.
7.5 Reporting, accounting and auditing
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The grant recipient is under an obligation to notify - with immediate effect - the Programme
Management Body of any factor that involves postponement of the completion of the project or
reduces the possibilities of achieving the goals for the grant or complying with its conditions.
Similarly, the grant recipient must at any given time, upon request by the the Programme
Management Body, provide information on the status of the project and insight into all information
pertaining to the project, irrespective of the nature or form of storage of such information.
The grant recipient must submit a final report and accounts, which must reach the Nordic Council of
Ministers’ Office in Estonia not later than 30 days following the expiry date of the project period. The
report forms available at http://www.nb8grants.org must be used for the final report. The reporting
currency is EUR.
The accounts must be signed by the grant recipient who is at the same time under an obligation to
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store all accounts material for at least 5 years, and - upon request from the Programme Management
Body - to place the accounts material at the disposal of the Programme Management Body and the
audit authorities.
If the grant recipient fails to fulfil his/her information- and reporting obligation in accordance with
this provision, or cannot submit documentation for expenses as entered in the accounts, the
Programme Management Body can demand full or partial repayment of the allocated project
funding.
7.6 Project results
All publications, announcements, etc. which at any given time derive from the funding awarded from
the Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Network Programme for Public Administration must carry the
programme logo available for downloading at http://www.norden.ee.
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7.7 Disputes
Any dispute arising in connection with this Grant Confirmation and Conditions will be settled by the
Danish courts and in accordance with Danish law, so that Copenhagen City Court (Københavns Byret)
is regarded as the legal venue both for the party awarding the grant and the party receiving the
grant.
7.8 Acceptance
The Grant Confirmation and Conditions with the conditions specified therein constitute an offer to the
grant recipient, which the grant recipient can accept by fulfilling the conditions mentioned above (1.
and 2.)
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Insofar as the grant recipient does not deliver the documentation described in the above mentioned
conditions (1. and 2.) to the Programme Management Body not later than 30 days following the
agreed completion date for the project, the grant is regarded as having lapsed.
8. Confirmation
I hereby confirm that the data is correct and I have read the Terms and Conditions.
Confirmed: Katrin Luuken 30.05.2017
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