3rd Call for Proposals Cross-border Programme in Serbia and BiH

Deadline: 7-Jun-22

The European Commission is calling for Proposals for Cross-border Programme Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014-2020 under the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance.

Priority Areas

• In line with the objectives specified in the programme document, the overall objective of this call for proposals is: enhancement of socio-economic development in the cross-border area between the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, through the implementation of targeted and concrete actions, based on comparative advantages of the programmes area and the joint, efficient use of resources.
• As a result of a decision made by the JMC of the programme on 13 September 2021 and 18 January 2022, out of the three thematic priorities of the programme document,
  • Priority I: Promoting employment, labour mobility and social and cultural inclusion across the border
  • Priority 2: Protecting the environment, promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management
  • Priority 3: Encouraging tourism and cultural and natural heritage

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3,207,809.95. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds. More specifically, the contracting authority might cancel the call completely or partially when only few good quality applications can be contracted and relaunch the unallocated assets in the next call for the specific objective(s) concerned.
• Specific objective Allocation
  • Fostering social and economic inclusion: EUR 1,000,000.00
  • Increasing the contribution of tourism to the socio-economic development of the programme area: EUR 2,207,809.95

Eligbility Criteria

• Lead Applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person,
    • be non-profit-making, and
    • be effectively established in either Republic of Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated cntity(ies), not acting as an intermediary, and
• Co-applicants
  • The lead applicant must act with at least one co-applicant as specified hereafter.
  • If the lead applicant is established in the Republic of Serbia, at least one co-applicant must be established in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and vice versa.
  • At least two legal entities in the partnership, one per participating country, being the lead applicant or the co-applicant, must be effectively established or have an office in the programme eligible area. The maximum number of co-applicants that could be involved. However, CBC partners must carefully bear in mind the most appropriate conditions to ensure an intra-project efficient coordination when deciding on this.
  • The number of partners and the composition of the partnership should be coherent with the envisaged objectives and activities of the action. In genuine cross-border operations, the applicant and co-applicant(s) shall cooperate in the development and implementation of action. In addition, they shall cooperate in either the staffing or the financing of operation or both. The lead applicant and co-applicant(s) must represent different legal entities.
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself
• Affiliated Entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies). Only the following entitles may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
  • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e., the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link. This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be: Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
      • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
      • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e., the applicant is legally defined as a e.g., network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association…) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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