Commission Decision of 19 December 2007 laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 573/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2008 to 2013 as part of the General programme ‘Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows’ as regards Member States’ management and control systems, the rules for administrative and financial management and the eligibility of expenditure on projects co-financed by the Fund (notified under document number C(2007) 6396) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/22/EC)

B. Request for payment of the balance/ Statement of reimbursement

I, the undersigned [name in capitals of the person in charge], representing the responsible authority for the [name of the Fund]

• request payment of the following amount:

  a Total amount requested to complement the pre-financing payment(s).
  [exact figure to two decimal places]
  EURa	+

  or

• declare for reimbursement the following amount:

  a Total amount to be reimbursed after the clearing of the pre-financing payment(s).
  [exact figure to two decimal places]
  EURa	–

This amount results from the balance between the total amount of pre-financing payment(s) received for this annual programme and the actual expenditure declared.

This request for payment is admissible because:

(a)

a final report on implementation of the annual programme has been submitted to the Commission or is attached;

(b)

a certified declaration of expenditure has been submitted or is attached;

(c)

an annual audit report, an opinion on the functioning of the management and control system and a declaration on the validity of the payment request prepared by the audit authority have been submitted or are attached;

(d)

any interest generated by the pre-financing payments has been posted to the annual programme, being regarded as national contribution and has been taken into account in the declaration of expenditure;

(e)

the annual programme has been implemented according to the principle of sound financial management and there is a reasonable assurance that the underlying transactions are legal and regular;

(f)

there is no reasoned opinion by the Commission in respect of an infringement under Article 226 of the Treaty, as regards the actions for which the expenditure is declared in the request.

Payment should be made by the Commission to:

Authority responsible for receiving payments
Bank
Bank account No
Account holder (if not the same as the authority responsible for receiving payments)

Date

Name in capital letters, stamp, position and signature of competent authority