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New funding specific programmes 2007-2013
Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security
related Risks
Prevention of and Fight against Crime
Criminal Justice
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BASIC ACTS Council decisions for two Framework Programmes
Framework programme "Security and Safeguarding Liberties"
Specific programmes:
Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security related Risks (Council Decision 2007/124/EC, Euratom of 12 February 2007, OJ 24.02.2007, L 058, p.1)
Prevention of and Fight against Crime (Council Decision 2007/125/JHA of 12 February 2007, OJ 24.02.2007, L 058, p.7)
Framework programme "Fundamental Rights and Justice"
Specific programme:
Criminal justice (Council Decision 2007/126/JHA of 12 February 2007, OJ 24.02.2007, L 058, p.13)
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BASIC ACTS – Policy framework
In February 2007 the basic acts replaced the AGIS Council Decision 2002/630/JHA of 22 July 2002
Other relevant acts:
Treaty on European Union (i.e. Arts. 29 and 31)
The Hague programme (2004)
European Union Plan of Action on Combating Terrorism (2004)
EPCIP - Programme for Critical Infrastructure protection (2005) etc.
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Envisaged Budget 2007-2013
ACTIVITY 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Average
TOTALmillions
EUR
Security and safeguarding liberties
Prevention, preparedness and consequence management of terrorism and other security-related risks
12,70 15,20 17,70 20,30
23,00 23,40 25,10 19,60 137,40
Prevention of and fight against crime
44,60 50,90 71,80 85,60
108,00
117,20
119,50
85,40 597,60
Fundamental rights and justice
Criminal justice 29,20 29,80 30,40 26,00
26,40 26,90 27,50 28,00 196,20
Total for all 3 Programmes
86,5 95,9 119,9 131,9
157,4 167,5 172,1 44,3 931,2
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Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security related
Risks
Indicative budget for 2008Part Types of actions The budget envisaged
million
A Calls for proposals for transnational and national projects
€ 11,8
B Grants to standardisation bodies € 0,3
C Public procurement € 1,3
D Administrative arrangements with the JRC
€ 1,8
TOTAL: € 15,2
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Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security related Risks
Objectives
The Programme shall contribute to support Member States‘ efforts to prevent,
prepare for, and to protect people and critical infrastructure against terrorist
attacks and other security related incidents.
Areas concerned
The Programme is intended to contribute to ensuring protection in the
areas such as the crisis management, environment, public health,
transport, research and technological development and economic and
social cohesion, in the field of terrorism and other security related risks
within the area of freedom, security and justice.
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Prevention of and Fight against Crime
indicative budget for 2008
PartPart Types of actionsTypes of actions The budget envisagedThe budget envisaged
I.I. GRANTS
AA Action grants, i.e. co-financing of transnational and national projects
23.480.00 23.480.00
BB Operating grants to non-governmental organisations
650.000 650.000
CC Action grants foreseen within framework partnerships
12.050.00012.050.000
DD Grants to bodies in monopoly situations 1.600.0001.600.000
II.II. Public procurement contracts 13.120.00013.120.000
TOTAL 50.900.000 €50.900.000 €
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Prevention of and Fight against Crime
Objectives
The Programme shall contribute to a high level of security for citizens by
preventing and combating crime, organised or otherwise, in particular terrorism,
trafficking in persons and offences against children, illicit drug trafficking and
illicit arms trafficking, corruption and fraud.
The Programme consists of four themes
(a) crime prevention and criminology(b) law enforcement
(c) protection and support to witnesses(d) protection of victims
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Criminal Justice indicative budget for 2008
PartPart Types of actionsTypes of actions Indicative budgetIndicative budget
AA Call for proposals (action grants)Call for proposals (action grants) 18.8 million18.8 million
BB Call for proposals (operating Call for proposals (operating grants)grants)
0.5 million0.5 million
CC Framework partnershipsFramework partnerships 2.8 million2.8 million
DD Grants to monopoliesGrants to monopolies 2.7 million2.7 million
EE Public procurement contracts Public procurement contracts undertaken by the Commissionundertaken by the Commission
5.0 million5.0 million
TOTALTOTAL € € 29.8 million29.8 million
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Criminal Justice
Objectives
(a) to promote judicial cooperation with the aim of contributing tothe creation of a genuine European area of justice in criminal matters based on mutual recognition and mutual confidence;
(b) to promote the compatibility in rules applicable in theMember States
(c) to improve the contacts and exchange of information and bestpractices between legal, judicial and administrative authorities and the legal professions, to foster the training of the members of the judiciary, with a view to enhancing mutual trust;
(d) to further improve mutual trust with the view to ensuring protection of rights of victims and of the accused.
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Content of the Annual work programmes
Part A: Action grants (to be awarded through a call for proposal (transnational and national projects)
Part B: Operating grants (for NGOs)
Part C: Framework partnerships
Part D: Grants to bodies in monopoly situation
Part E: Public procurement
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Action grants-common features
Transnational projects – 2 partners:
in at least two Member States, or
one Member State + one candidate country
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Third countries and international organisations may participate as partners, but are not permitted to submit projects.
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Action grants-common features
National projects are eligible if they :
Prepare transnational projects and/or Union actions (starter measures)
Are complementary to transnational projects and/or Union actions
Contribute to developing innovative methods at Union level
Develop such methods and technologies with a view to transferring them to other Member States
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Action grants-common features
Principle of co-financing
Maximum duration of 3 years (to be checked in the annual work programme)
Minimum amount for the grant 50.000 Euro (to be checked in
the annual work programme)
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Eligible activities shall aim at:
strengthening networking, mutual confidence and understanding,
development of contingency plans, exchange and dissemination of information, experience and best practice);
analytical, monitoring, evaluation and audit activities;
development and transfer of technology and methodology, particularly regarding information sharing and inter-operability;
training, exchange of staff and experts
awareness and dissemination activities.
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Target groupsAccess to the Programmes shall be opened to bodies and organisations with legal personality established in the Member states
law enforcement agenciesother public and/or private bodies, actors and institutions
including local, regional and national authorities social partnersuniversities statistical offices non-governmental organisationspublic-private partnershipsrelevant international bodieslegal practitionersrepresentatives of victims' assistance services, and other professionals involved in the
work of the judiciary
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Action grants-common features
Provisional Timetable 2008:
Publication of calls for proposals Nov/Dec 2007
Deadline for submission of proposals Jan/Feb 2008
Opinion of the Programme Committee Apr/May 2008
Decision by the Commission May/June 2008
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Operating grants-common features For non-governmental organisations and bodies pursuing an aim of
general European interest
Provisional Timetable:
Publication of a call for proposals October 2007
Deadline for submission of proposals Jan/Feb 2008
Opinion of the Programme Committee March 2008
Decision by the Commission March 2008
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New forms of cooperation
Reasons: more flexibility esp. in timing
long-term cooperation with key players
Forms
Framework partnerships
Grants to bodies in monopoly situationsmonopoly projects: exceptional, Art 168 IR ( EJTN, Europol)
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Framework Partnerships
In programmes: Criminal Justice and Prevention of and Fight against Crime
To provide for a long term cooperation with certain partners
Work on a regular and stable basis
The expected duration of the framework partnership agreements is 4 years.
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Framework Partnerships – Who can apply ?
Prevention of and Fight Against Crime: public authorities only
Criminal Justice : bodies and organisations with a European dimension in the area of training of legal professions, established in the Member States with legal personality.
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Grants to Bodies in a Monopoly situation and projects initiated and managed by the Commission
with a European Dimension
Foreseen beneficiaries: EJTN, ATLAS, Europol, FIU-net,IAEA, CEN
Application for a grant must be sent to the Commission
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Public Procurement contracts
Contracts for activities such as:
-studies
-evaluations
-impact assessments
-development of software and web pages
-conferences and meetings etc.
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ProgrammesProgrammes Calls Deadline for submission of proposals
Prevention, Preparedness and Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Consequence Management of Terrorism and Security related Terrorism and Security related RisksRisks
1 call for action grants Feb 2008
Prevention of and Fight against Prevention of and Fight against CrimeCrime
1 call for action grants1 call for action grants
1 call for operating grants1 call for operating grants
January/Feb 2008
January/Feb 2008
Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice 1 call for action grants
1 call for operating grants
January/Feb 2008
January/Feb 2008
Recapitulation- Calls for proposals 2008
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Call for Proposals: Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and
Security related Risks 2008
Publication of Call for Proposals : November 2007 Deadline: for submission: Feb./March 2008 Budget: € 11,8 million
Activities:
Projects should have a potential for transferability at EU level in the field
of security-oriented critical infrastructure protection and belong to one of
the following sectors: Energy, Information Communication
Technologies, Water, Food, Health, Financial, Transport, Chemical
industry, Research facilities and General topics
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Call for Action grants: Prevention of and Fight against Crime 2008
Publication of a call for proposal: November/Dec 2007
Deadline for submission of proposals: January/Feb 2008
Budget: 23 480,000 €
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Call for Action grants: Prevention of and Fight against Crime 2008
Thematic priorities
Horizontal approaches and crime prevention measures such as:
prevention of organised crime and of general crime
protecting victims and supporting and protecting witnesses and other persons ready to co-operate with justice.
prevention of violent radicalisation and recruitment to terrorism
exchanges among law enforcement officials, training, seminars, sharing of knowledge and/or best practices
linguistic support activities
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Call for Action grants: Prevention of and Fight against Crime 2008
Thematic priorities:Prevention of and Fight against Crime in specific areas such as:
Financial crime Violent radicalisation Environmental crime Trafficking in cultural goods, in human beings, in firearms Illicit drug trafficking Counterfeiting and piracy Sexual exploitation of children Computer related crime Implementation of the Treaty of Prüm Biological and Radiological Terrorism
Explosives and Detection
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Call for operating grants: Prevention of and Fight
against Crime 2008
Deadline for submission of Proposals: Jan/Feb 2007
Budget: € 650 000.
Co-financing of costs of functioning of NGOs
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Call for operating grants: Prevention of and Fight against Crime 2008
Operating grants may be awarded to NGOs:
active in the field of general crime prevention dealing with juvenile crime, urban crime or drug related crime, and facilitating different forms of
restorative justice and mediation.
aiming at improving transparency and accountability of non-profit organisations in the European Union and thus contribute to the
protection of these organisations against any abuse of financial criminal nature
aiming at preventing, at local level, the emergence of radicalising tendencies, and at developing mechanisms related to renunciation of violence and terrorism
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Call for Action Grants: Criminal Justice Programme 2008
Publication of a call for proposals: October/Nov 2007
Deadline for submission of proposals : Jan/Feb 2007
Budget: € 29.8 million
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Priority Areas
1. Judicial Traininga) Training in EU legal instruments and policies b) Language trainingc) Developing a European judicial
2. Studies and concrete projects to improve judicial cooperation a) Improving judicial cooperation in criminal matters
b) Improving mutual knowledge and exchanging best practices
3. Supporting victims of terrorist crimes
4. Criminal Records
Call for proposals: Criminal Justice Programme 2008
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Deadline for submission of proposals: Jan/Feb 2007
Budget: € 0,5 million
Co-financing of costs of functioning of NGOs that have been legally established in accordance with the law of one of the Member States
Call for Operating Grants proposals: Criminal Justice Programme 2008
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Call for Operating Grants Proposals: Criminal Justice Programme 2008
The following activities will be given priority:
improving the professional skills of legal practitioners and defining training curricula;
cooperation between public authorities and associations in the field of victim assistance;
cooperation between public authorities and associations in the field of rehabilitation of offenders;
production and dissemination of information on how to access legalinterpretation, translation and advice;
Cooperation between academics and researchers, and between them and EU institutions, in the area of judicial cooperation in criminal matters;
development of restorative justice and mediation;
networking of legal professions with a view to improving defence rights in cross-border cases.
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Selection and evaluation process of the applications
Eligibility criteria (sent before deadline, date and signature, all requested documents attached)
Exclusion criteria (no situation of bankruptcy, signed declaration of honour)
Selection criteria (operational, professional and financial capacity)
Award criteria (quality of the content)
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Selection and evaluation process of the applications
Eligibility criteria in general:
bodies or organisations with legal personality established in the Member States. Profit oriented bodies must submit a declaration from its partner non-profit or state organisation.
relation to one of the general objectives of the programme
Correct application form (dated and signed) + all the documents listed the calls;
budget in Euro, balanced in income and expenditure.
The amount of Community funding requested may not exceed 70% of the total eligible costs of the project; it must include a minimum contribution of 30% of the total eligible costs of the project (from the applicant, partners, other sponsors and revenue)
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Selection and evaluation process of the applications
Eligibility criteria in general:
Minimum grant € 50.000 (there may be also a maximum amount)
Transnational projects must involve partners in at least two Member States, or at least one Member State and one other State which is an acceding or a candidate country
Projects cannot be already completed and should not be scheduled to start before the signature of the contract
Projects cannot last more than three years.
The deadline for applications must be respected (as evidenced by a postmark).
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Selection and evaluation process of the applications
Exclusion criteria (in general):
Candidates must sign the declaration of honour on the last page of the application form to Candidates must sign the declaration of honour on the last page of the application form to declare that they are notdeclare that they are not:
bankrupt or being wound up, or having their affairs administered by the courts
convicted of an offence concerning their professional conduct by a judgment which has the force of res
judicata guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authority can
justify the subject of a judgment which has the force of res judicata for fraud, corruption involvement in a
criminal organisation or any other illegal activity detrimental to the Communities' financial interests subject to a conflict of interest guilty of misrepresentation in supplying the information required or fail to supply this information.
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Selection and evaluation process of the applications
Selection criteria:
operational, professional capacity to conduct the proposed project
(CVs of personnel involved etc.)
financial capacity (for private bodies only)
(ability to manage the funds allocated, analysis of profit and loss accounts, balance sheets)
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Selection and evaluation process of the applications
Award criteria for Action Grants
a) Conformity (15 points)
b) Quality of the proposed action (25 points)
c) Value for money (15 points)
d) Impact of the expected results (15 points)
e) European dimension (15 points)
f) Economies of scale (15 points)
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Award criteria for Operating grants
Consistency of the activities with the priorities 30 (points)
Quality of the planned activities 30 (points)
Likely multiplier effect on the public of activities 10 (points)
Geographic impact of the planned activities 15 (points)
Value for money 15 (points)
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Summary of the Application Procedure
Read the annual program and evaluation criteria
Contact your partners to discuss content and prepare the partnership declarations
Read the candidates’ guide (how to prepare an application; how to justify the expenses)
Download a form from: http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/intro/funding_security_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/intro/funding_rights_en.htm
Fill in all the fields of the application form ! Don’t forget to sign and date!
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Summary of the Application Procedure
Express the content clearly and concisely, define in detail the deliverables and expected outcome/results
How does the project fit your policy?
What gain is there for you/your partners?
What are the results for other participants?
Describe added value of your project at EU level and why it merits funding.
Pay attention to dissemination of final results (media used, language(s), number of copies)
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Summary of the Application Procedure
Download a budget form from:http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/cips/funding_cips_en.htm#http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/isec/funding_isec_en.htm#http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/jpen/funding_jpen_en.htm#
Read Guide to the Programme
Fill in sub headings in excel form (protected)
Results will be automatically transferred into cover page
Budget corresponds with the application
Budget in relation with work to be done, value for money
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Summary of the Application Procedure- Budget
Details of income and expenses, in balance
Budget is self-explanatory
All information as detailed as possible
Period of eligibility:costs born before the submission of the application are not eligible
Keep in mind that all costs are to be justified by receipts, tickets, salary slips, copies of bank transfers, etc.
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For more information
Websites: http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/intro/funding_security_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/intro/funding_rights_en.htm
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