Is the expenditure for the office renting an eligible cost or co financing?
As ruled by art. 89 Reg (EC) 718/2007, the expenditure of office renting shall be eligible when paid by public authorities and when the costs of the provision of services relate to the preparation and implementation of an operation provided by a public authority that is itself the final beneficiary and which is executing an operation for its own account without recourse to other outside service providers if they are additional costs and relate either to expenditure actually and directly paid for the co-financed operation. The costs for of office renting must be certified by means of documents which permit the identification of real costs paid by the public authority concerned for that operation. This being said and considered that only contributions in kind may not be considered as co-financing by the Beneficiary, the expenditures for the office renting, when eligible as explained above, are not contributions in kind and may be considered as co-financing in the Budget for the Project.
