The EC has agreed to a
recommendation from the European Ombudsman to accept personnel costs despite
the absence of reliable time records for an FP7 project. External auditors
pronounced that the Belgian organisation’s time recording system was entirely
unreliable. Despite this, in the case of one deliverable, the alternative
evidence of the drafting and multiple redrafts and occasional emails was judged
by the auditors sufficient to justify the personnel time claimed. For a second
deliverable, the description of dissemination activities carried out by the
organisation was considered sufficient by the auditors to justify the hours
claimed. The costs of a further six deliverables were considered inadequately
justified.
The EC decided to disallow
all personnel costs. The Ombudsman considered this disproportionate, suggesting
that the EC should reimburse the costs related to the two deliverables where
the alternative evidence for the number of hours had been accepted by the
auditors. On 6th October, the Ombudsman reported that the EC has
accepted this recommendation.
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