2 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2015/2345(INI)
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to focus social NGO funding programmes on operational grants beyoensure continuity and sustainability in the definition and implementation of NGO funding programmes, particularly by increasing the multiannual partnership agreements and reducing the lead times between the notification of contracts and the first payments; (the sustainability and cone year, in order to ensure continuity and sustainability; tinuity of the programmes are crucial, as is efficient management of funding, in order to ensure that the measures financed are not put at risk. NGOs are continually faced with hiatuses in operational financing contracts and have to resort to loans or overdrafts to ensure that the measures provided for in the contracts with the Commission are actually implemented.)
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission, in its proposal for a revision of the financial regulations, to consider contributions in kind as eligible expenditure, and to increase the ceiling for indirect expenditure in grants for actions and operating grants; (Owing to the financial crisis and the increasingly limited availability of public and private funding, NGOs are finding it increasingly difficult to find co-financing in cash. Co-financing in kind as working time, volunteering and material contributions have long been accepted by national and international institutions. The ceiling for indirect costs is particularly low for NGO funding programmes (7%) and fails to enable NGOs to cover a large proportion of indirect costs.