EU 2nd Call for Proposals: Cross-border Programme Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro

Deadline: 25 January 2019

The European Union (EU) has launched a 2nd call for proposals for its “Cross-border Programme Bosnia and Herzegovina -Montenegro”.

The sustainable development in the cross-border area between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro is promoted by the implementation of common actions based on an efficient use of the comparative advantages of the programme area.

Priority Issues

• Priority 1: Promoting employment, labour mobility and social and cultural inclusion across the border, with Specific Objectives:
  • The access to the labour market and the environment for new employment generation are enhanced  
  • Employment opportunities and social inclusion of vulnerable groups are enhanced;
• Priority 2: Protecting the environment,promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management, with Specific Objectives:
  • Cross-border coordination and joint actions improve the management and energy efficiency of local water supply, waste water and solid waste systems, and the protection of the environment;
  • Risk prevention and management and climate change mitigation and adaptation are improved;
• Priority 3: Encouraging tourism and cultural and natural heritage, with the Specific Objective:
  • The quality and diversification of the tourism offer, building on natural and cultural heritage, is improved;

Funding Information

• Lot 1: Cross border coordination and joint actions improve the management and energy efficiency of local water supply, wastewater and solid waste systems, and the protection of environment
  • Minimum amount of EU-requested grant: EUR 200,000.00
  • Maximum amount of EU-requested grant: EUR 500,000.00
• Lot 2: The quality and diversification of the tourism offer building on natural and cultural heritage is improved 
  • Minimum amount of EU-requested grant: EUR 200,000.00
  • Maximum amount of EU-requested grant: EUR 400,00.00

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person, and
    • be non-profit-making, and
    • be established in either Bosnia and Herzegovina or Montenegro, and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary, and
    • be a specific type of institution or organisation such as:
      • For Lot 1:
        • country authorities/institutions with competencies/responsibilities in the eligible area, local governments and their institutions;
        • agencies for local or regional development;
        • organisations (including NGOs) for nature protection;
        • public bodies responsible for water supply, waste water and solid waste management.
      • For Lot 2:
        • organisations responsible for maintenance and development of natural and cultural heritage;
        • tourism development organisations;
        • local, regional and central governments.
  • The lead applicant must act with co-applicant(s)as specified hereafter.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • The applicant must act with at least one co-applicant as specified hereafter.
  • If the applicant is established in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at least one co-applicant must be established in Montenegro, and vice versa.
  • Whenever either the lead applicant or the co-applicant are neither effectively established in the eligible area, nor have an office in the eligible area, they must ensure that in the partnership there is at least one legal entity effectively established in the programme eligible area.
  • The maximum number of co-applicants that could be involved in the action is not set.
  • 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-applicant(s) must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant.
  • In addition to the categories referred above,the following are, however, also eligible for Lot 2:
    • organisations, including NGOs, active in maintenance and development of natural and cultural heritage.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • Only the following entities 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, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, 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.

How to Apply

In order to apply for the grants, applicants have to register themselves in PADOR, an on-line database via given website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2UwMF3x and download the guidelines.