Notes for completing the Form C Financial Statement

  1. All partners, including zero cost partners, need to provide Form Cs.
  2. Complete the "Participant 1" sheet (see help below), print out two copies and sign them and send them to:
    Pip Gilbert, Met Office, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
    as soon as possible after 1 September 2005. We do not need the "Summary report" sheet. Please also send an electronic copy to ensemblesfp6@metoffice.gov.uk
  3. Complete the information at the top of the "Participant 1" sheet in the yellow boxes (apart from the "Type of Action" box). FC is the default setting for Cost model, but for AC and FCF partners please change it.
  4. Section 1 – not applicable for ENSEMBLES partners (leave as "No"). Let me know if you disagree.
  5. Section 2 – contributions to RT1-RT7 go under column A, RT8 under column C, and some time and travel for attendance at Management Board meetings can be put under column D. IMPORTANT: Please remember to refer back to the information contained in contract preparation form A3.3 "Financial information for the first 18 months", available from the ENSEMBLES members' site if you have mislaid your copy.
  6. Section 3 – Most partners will not have "receipts" to declare. See the footnote below which contains the Commission's wording from Article II.23. Please note that receipts do not refer to the money that you received as pre-financing from the Met Office.
  7. Section 4 –this is only for the co-ordinator to fill in.
  8. Section 5 – this figure is calculated automatically, and depends on whether you chose FC/FCF or AC. You can request a lower amount if required (but not a higher amount). If you are a zero cost partner then simply replace this figure with 0.
  9. Sections 6, 7 and 8 – please complete these sections accurately.

Footnote - Article II.23. Receipts of the Project

Receipts of the project may arise from:
(a) financial transfers to the contractor from third parties,
(b) contributions in kind from third parties, and from
(c) income generated by the project and as specified below:

a) Where there is a financial transfer from third parties:
i. made specifically to co-finance the project or specifically to finance a resource used by the contractor on the project, such transfers shall be considered as receipts of the project (except for the case where a prior commitment between the contractor and the third party(ies) identified in Annex I establishes that the third party(ies) make(s) available its resources on the basis that they are to be reimbursed or used for a common interest);
ii. where the use of the financing or the use of resources paid with the financial transfers are at the management discretion of the contractor and the contractor chooses to allocate that resource to the project, such transfers shall not be considered to be receipts of the project.

b) Contributions in kind from third parties that are used for the project constitute an eligible cost of the project, and:
i. shall also be considered a receipt of the project if they have been contributed by the third party specifically to be used on the project (except for the case where a prior commitment between the contractor and the third party(ies) identified in Annex I establishes that the third party(ies) make(s) available its resources on the basis that they are to be reimbursed or used for a common interest);
ii. shall not be considered a receipt of the project if their use is at the management discretion of the contractor. Contractors shall ensure that third parties whose resources are made available to the project are informed of this use of their resources. Contractors shall do so in accordance with their national legislation and practices.

c) Income generated by the project:
i. income generated by actions undertaken in carrying out the project and income from the sale of assets purchased under the contract up to the value of the cost initially charged to the project shall be considered as a receipt of the project;
ii. income generated for the contractor from the use of knowledge resulting from the project shall not be considered as a receipt of the project.