Beneficiaries' Info Point

This section aims to provide you with useful information, guidelines and documents to make your work with the Agency and the entire project process more effective and efficient.

Background documents

This page contains a number of background documents of relevance to the beneficiaries of Connecting Europe Facility grants.

Document	External link
Connecting Europe Facility Regulation Regulation 1316/2013 establishing the Connecting Europe Facility	Available here
Financial Regulation Regulation 966/2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union	Available here
Reimbursement of personnel costs in projects European Commission Decision C(2016) 478	Available here
CEF Telecom - Model grant agreement The model grant agreement should be used for reference purposes only. Only the signed grant agreements can be considered legally binding.	Available here

Other documents

Title	Description
CEF Telecom GA implementation - webinar 14/10/2021	CEF Telecom GA implementation webinar - presentations: CEF Telecom GA implementation webinar - QA session: Presentation
CEF TELECOM-2020-2 Grant Agreement Preparation - webinar 19/05/2021	Presentation
Webinar "Personnel costs in CEF Telecom Programme" 04/03/2021	Presentation, examples, audio record & Q&A session
CEF TELECOM - 2020-1 Grant Agreement Preparation webinar 17/12/2020	Presentation
CEF TELECOM - Implementation of Grant Agreements webinar 19/05/2020	Presentation
CEF TELECOM - 2019-2 Grant Agreement preparation 12/05/2020	Presentation
CEF guidelines	Guidelines on the Eligibility of Costs under the Connecting Europe Facility
FAQ	2020 CEF Telecom call FAQ Frequently Asked Questions - project implementation - September 2019
CEF Telecom Grant Agreement	Model Grant agreement - CEF Telecom 2020 - version June 2019
Forms and templates	General publications24 August 2021 Interim and Final technical report - Annex V - version May 2021 Final report drafting guidance
	General publications16 February 2023 Individual Financial Statement – Annex VI - version May 2021
	Consolidated Financial Statement – Annex VI - version May 2021
	Lump Sum Financial Statement - version May 2021
	Terms of reference for the certificate on the financial statement - Annex VII Model terms of reference for the certificate on the financial statements - Version April 2023 Annex 1: Implementation contracts list Annex 2: Certified Financial Statement sampled transactions - version May 2021
	Declaration of personnel costs - version January 2023
	Guide to currency conversion to Euro - version January 2021
	Financial Guarantees (Pre-financing) Third Party Guarantee - version May 2021 Bank Guarantee - version May 2021 Beneficiary Guarantee - version May 2021
Information note for the attention of CEF Telecom - DSI Beneficiaries - NEW	CEF Telecom/DSI: completeness of checks for payment requests and eligibility of costs
Information note for Actions with poor, partial or late implementation	Information note for Actions with poor, partial or late implementation
Publicity and logos	Publicity Guidelines + logos Learn how to correctly cite European Commission funding on your dissemination materials as required by the CEF Regulation, funding logo and disclaimer in all official EU languages.
	Communicating CEF projects guideline Useful advice on how to create the communication plan of the CEF project
	Social media guidelines for CEF Telecom projects