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I, the Undersigned, being the legally authorised representative of <name of the organisationacting as: Lead Beneficiary / Project Partner / Adjacent Partner, being fully aware that providing false statements in the present Declaration constitutes an offence according to the Criminal Code, in the context of the present call for proposals, hereby declare that:

  1. The Applicantagrees on and accepts all the conditions stated in the Call for Proposals and described in the Application Package.
  1. The Applicant possesses the adequate financial resources, operational capacity, professional expertise and competencies to implement the relevant project part.
  1. The Applicant is directly responsible for the preparation, management and implementation of the proposed actions with its partners and is not acting as an intermediary.The Applicant undertakes to comply with the obligations foreseen in the Subsidy Contract for Community Funding, the Partnership Agreement and with the principles of good partnership practice.
  1. ONLY IF RELEVANT TO YOUR ORGANISATION: The Applicant has its headquarters outside of the programme area (in one of the Participating Countries) and its regional/local branch located in the programme area is not a legal entity. The headquarters applies for the subsidy as the <: Lead Beneficiary / Project Partner / Adjacent Partner and declares that:

a)Its regional/local branch has at least one year of operation as a local organisational unit in the programme area.

b)The leader of the branch office is an authorised representative of the legal person to act in the scope of the operation of the regional/local branch in connection to the implementation of the relevant project part.

c)Local staff will be involved in project management.

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  1. The Applicant isNOTfalling under any of the grounds for exclusion listed below:

a)The Applicant is bankrupt or being wound up, is having its affairs administered by the courts, has entered into an arrangement with creditors, has suspended business activities, is the subject of proceedings concerning those matters, or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure provided for in national legislation or regulations;

b)The Applicanthas been convicted of an offence concerning professional conduct by a judgment which has the force of ‘res judicata’ (i.e., against which no appeal is possible);

c)The Applicanthas beenguilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the Managing/National Authority can justify;

d)The Applicant has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions or the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which it is establishedor with those of the country of the Managing Authority / National Authorities or those of the country where the contract is to be performed;

e)The Applicant has been the subject of a judgment which has the force of ‘res judicata’ for fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organization or any other illegal activity detrimental to the Communities' financial interests;

f)The Applicant has been declared to be in serious breach of contract for failure to comply with its contractual obligations in connection with a procurement procedure or other grant award procedure financed by the Community budget;

g)The Applicantis subject to a conflict of interestconnected to their participation in the present Calls for Proposals;

h)The Applicantis guilty of misrepresentation in supplying the information required by the Managing/National Authority as a condition of participation in the Call for Proposals or fails to supply this information;

i)The Applicanthas attempted/attempts to obtain confidential information from decision-making and management bodies or to influence any stage of theassessment/project selection process of current or previous Calls for Proposals;

j)ONLY FOR HUNGARIAN APPLICANT ORGANISATIONS: The Applicant is subject to a conflict of interest listed under Article 6. of the Hungarian Act CLXXXI of 2007 on transparency of support from public funds,connected to their participation in the present Calls for Proposals.

  1. The Applicantis eligible in accordance with the criteria set out in the Call for Proposals.
  1. The Applicant acknowledges the fact that all revenues and receipts generated by the project will be timely taken into account.
  1. The Applicantdeclares that the present project part does not receive funding from any other Community or national or international financial sources and that the Application has not been submitted for funding to other programmes.
  1. TheApplicantunderstands that it receives an automatic advance of 15 % of its respective project part from the Community contribution awarded, as detailed in the Subsidy Contract for Community Funding. The Applicant alsounderstands that the expendituresof the project – exceeding the amount of the advance – will have to be pre-financed by the Applicant itself and that the subsidy will be paid in the form of periodical reimbursement.
  1. The Applicant agrees with the publication of its name, the title and summaryof the project and the amount of subsidy as well as the geographic location of the implementation.
  1. The Applicant agrees that relevant organisations and authorities may

a)collect data and information necessary for the processing of the Application and may, handle, use, transmit and delete relevant data, further they may consult and contract third parties, bound by a pledge of secrecy, for the evaluation of the Application and the annexed documents;

b)if necessary, share data included in the Application with organisations responsible for the co-ordination and management of Community and national funds.

  1. The Applicant guarantees the sound financial management of the funds, including arrangements made for recovering amounts unduly paid, as well as the maintenance of an adequate and reliable accounting and document storage system.
  1. The Applicant provides own contributionto the respective project part (in an amount defined in Chapter 11of the Application Form (Sources of funding) and in line with section 2.4.5 of the Guidelines for Applicants).
  1. The Applicant declares that the implementation of the respective project part –which the Applicant is responsible for – has not been started before the submission of the Application. The Applicant acknowledges the fact that the implementation of the project has to start within one year from the date of submission of the Application at the latest.
  1. By submitting the Application to the present Call for Proposals, the Project Partner duly consents to the fact that the Data Manager (Hungarian National Development Agency) and the Technical Data Processor (VÁTI Nonprofit Ltd.) will manage all the personal data included in the Application and provided in the contracting or project implementation phase, in particular with regard to the data managed in the Monitoring and Information System of the Programme (IMIS 2007-2013).

Hungarian Act CXII of 2011 on the Right to information privacy and freedom of informationshall apply to the protection of personal data and to the disclosure of information of public interest. The data are managed upon the voluntary consent of the Project Partner, according to Letter a) of Paragraph (1) of Article 5of the above-mentioned Act.

  1. ONLY FOR HUNGARIAN APPLICANT ORGANISATIONS*:Declaration on the VAT status of the Applicant(Theapplicable VAT status must be marked withX):

The Applicantis not entitled for VAT refund.
Value added taxes are not recoverable by any means.
(Total gross costs were budgeted in the AF)
The Applicant is entitled for VAT refund.
Value added taxes are in general recoverable by the Applicant but they cannot be reclaimed for the given project part.
(Total gross costs were budgeted in the AF)
The Applicant is entitled for VAT refund.
Value added taxes are recoverable by the Applicant and will be reclaimed for the given project part.
(Total net costs were budgeted in the AF)

*SerbianProject Partners – having signed the Subsidy Contract for Community Funding – will be exempted from paying VAT, therefore the Lead Beneficiary/Project Partners from the Republic of Serbia must only indicate net amounts in the budget table, without the VAT.

  1. ONLY FOR HUNGARIAN APPLICANT ORGANISATIONS: Stipulations concerning State aid:

17.1 The Applicant hereby declares that the services provided in the frame of the project are available free of charge to anybody under equal conditions.

17.2Finally, the Applicant declares that the organization:

has received de minimis aid according to the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006 of 15 December 2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty on de minimis aid, during the previous two fiscal years and the current fiscal year, a total of

… EUR[1]
  1. With his/her signature the legally authorised representative of the Applicanthereby certifies that the data and statements provided are complete, correct and actual, further that the provisions of the Application Package have been noted and respected and assumes the obligation to immediately notify the JTS in case any relevant changes to the data provided for in the present Declarationare made.

Applicant organisation:
Name and position of the authorised representative of the Applicant:
Official stamp and signature of the Applicant:
Date of Signature:
Place of signature:

NOTE:The declaration has to be filled in and signed separately by each Project Partner, so please make as many copies, as the number of partners in the project!

The declaration has to be submitted in signed and stamped originals, copies are not accepted!

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[1] Please fill in the relevant amount!In case the Applicant has not received de minimis aid according to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006 of 15 December 2006 ‘on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty on de minimis aid’ during the previous two fiscal years and the current fiscal year, please type ’0’.

NOTE: According to Paragraph 36 (4) of the Decree No. 5/2009 of the Hungarian Ministry of National Development and Economy, previously granted de minimis amounts have to be converted into EUR at the median exchange rate published by the Hungarian National Bank with a precision of two decimals, valid at the last day of the month preceding the date of the grant decision. The respective exchange rate is available on the web page of the Hungarian National Bank: