Announcement & Information

The announcement and the related documentation is available under Documents for application. The Danube-Mecsek Regional Development Foundation makes announcement in the related county's dailies and on its own website about this call for applications.

When the application window opens, the foundation's and the expert body's staff will organize at least one on-site information forum in the related region; the date and the venue of such sessions are available under the Events menu.

The competent local governments will be notified in writing about the forums' date and venue. The foundation requests local governments to publish the announcement in the locally accepted manner.

Submitting and receiving applications

There are two ways for submitting applications until the deadline specified in the call for applications: in case of applications submitted by ordinary mail, the date of posting, and in case of applications personally handed in to the Work Organization, the date and the exact time of the of receipt count. Missing documents can be submitted by ordinary mail only.

The foundation's competent official will assign a Receipt code for the received application packages and record them in the sequence of receipt. The expert body will take care of the application document after receipt, to prepare them for decision-making.

Award decision

Based on the expert body's decision proposal, the received applications will be assessed by the Danube-Mecsek Regional Development Foundation's advisory board. The decision will be approved by the National Development Agency. The award process will take into consideration the criteria laid down in the call for applications.

Announcement of results

The results for the first round of the application is likely to take place in July 2009. The list of applications to be supported is available under this website's Awards menu, on the Danube-Mecsek Regional Development Foundation's website at www.dmta.hu, on the EEA and Norway Grants' official website (http://www.eeagrants.org) and on the websites of Hungary's National Development Agency (www.nfu.hu). The foundation will notify participants in letters.

Contracting

The granted applicants will conclude Support Agreement with the Danube-Mecsek Regional Development Foundation, which will be countersigned by the National Development Agency's Central Financial and Contracting Unit (NFÜ KPSZE). For this to happen, the beneficiary shall meet the requirements for contracting in accordance with the regulations and by the set deadline.

It is a precondition for concluding Support Contract that the beneficiary submits to the Foundation the enclosures, certifications and documents specified in the Application Guidelines, if they had not been submitted before or there was a change in the document since submission date. If the deadline for presenting the documents required for the agreement is not met, the award decision loses its validity.

Before concluding the Support Contract, the Foundation makes sure that the project can be implemented or can be started, or at least the public procurement required for its implementation can be commenced immediately.

The deadline for sending back the signed Support Contract and the documents required for entering into Support Contract is 30 days from the receipt of the letter informing about the award decision. Within 15 days from the receipt of the documents required to sign the Support Contract, the foundation will forward the signed Support Contract to the beneficiary.

The beneficiary shall immediately notify the foundation if during the Support Contract's effective date there is a change in the identification data in the Support Contract or the data related to the contract's fulfilment (such as contact details or bank account number).

Monitoring

Beneficiary shall complete the project in accordance with conditions in the Support Contract. If the beneficiary fails to do so, the foundation is entitled to suspend financing, or to reduce the grant, and initiate partial or whole repayment, or cancel the Support Contract. On-site checks are likely to occur after the payment of the submitted payment requests, or, in justified cases, prior to the payment as well as during the availability period. Each on-site check shall be placed on record.