Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/379 of 19 December 2018 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2195 on supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1304/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund, regarding the definition of standard scales of unit costs and lump sums for reimbursement of expenditure by the Commission to Member States

Type Delegated Regulation
Publication 2019-03-11
State In force
Text As published
Department European Commission, EMPL
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3.2.1 Amount per participant demonstrating successful completion of a training course 3.2.2 Hourly rate for provision of employment services 3.2.3 Monthly rate for provision of employment services 3.2.4 Annual amount for provision of employment services 3.2.5 Hourly rate for training of employed persons 3.2.6 Hourly rate for salary of employed person
Austria 2 277 39 6 723 80 672 33,98 26,03
Belgium 3 351 42 7 010 84 112 22,97 31,08
Bulgaria 596 3 543 6 511 5,14 1,76
Cyprus 2 696 29 5 467 65 604 18,85 10,94
Czech Republic 521 11 1988 23 864 9,29 7,39
Germany 6 959 42 7 582 90 992 36,03 23,11
Denmark 5 803 55 9 496 113 956 39,67 32,02
Estonia 711 14 2 498 29 968 14,03 8,22
Greece 2 064 21 3 685 44 222 17,72 11,56
Spain 2 772 20 3 508 42 095 17,58 18,30
Finland 5 885 45 7 683 92 204 38,39 27,69
France 6 274 48 7 297 87 556 35,99 25,26
Croatia 689 10 1 620 19 440 10,52 5,90
Hungary 1818 10 1 816 21 790 15,67 5,02
Ireland 11 119 36 6 411 76 920 31,79 27,20
Italy 3 676 31 5 438 65 247 27,42 22,20
Lithuania 1 359 8 1 574 18 878 7,43 3,71
Luxembourg 19 302 34 5 908 70 890 29,87 23,30
Latvia 756 8 1 385 16 607 7,94 7,21
Malta 2 256 13 2 184 26 212 16,49 8,41
Netherlands 5 018 36 6 474 77 680 32,01 23,33
Poland 594 6 1 051 12 611 11,21 4,47
Portugal 994 21 3 648 43 784 8,33 10,63
Romania 583 8 1 555 18 656 0,27 2,56
Sweden 7 303 48 8 369 100 430 58,02 32,67
Slovenia 854 22 4 015 48 185 18,90 7,61
Slovakia 424 7 1 117 13 411 11,13 12,52
United Kingdom 5 863 25 4 690 56 286 36,07 15,16

3.3.   Index to be applied for the amounts for stated regional operations programmes.

Belgium 1,00 France 1,00
Brussels Capital 1,26 Île de France 1,32
Flanders 0,97 Champagne-Ardenne 0,88
Wallonia 0,91 Picardie 0,91
Haute-Normandie 0,96
Germany 1,00 Centre 0,89
Baden-Württemberg 1,08 Basse-Normandie 0,86
Bayern 1,05 Bourgogne 0,87
Berlin 0,98 Nord — Pas-de-Calais 0,95
Brandenburg 0,82 Lorraine 0,90
Bremen 1,06 Alsace 0,97
Hamburg 1,21 Franche-Comté 0,89
Hessen 1,12 Pays de la Loire 0,90
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 0,79 Bretagne 0,86
Niedersachsen 0,93 Poitou-Charentes 0,83
Nordrhein-Westfalen 1,02 Aquitaine 0,87
Rheinland-Pfalz 0,96 Midi-Pyrénées 0,91
Saarland 0,98 Limousin 0,84
Sachsen 0,81 Rhône-Alpes 0,97
Sachsen-Anhalt 0,82 Auvergne 0,86
Schleswig-Holstein 0,87 Languedoc-Roussillon 0,84
Thüringen 0,82 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 0,93
Corse 0,93
Greece 1,00 Guadeloupe 1,01
Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki 0,81 Martinique 0,90
Kentriki Makedonia 0,88 Guyane 0,99
Dytiki Makedonia 1,12 La Réunion 0,83
Ipeiros 0,79 Mayotte 0,64
Thessalia 0,83
Ionia Nisia 0,82 Italy 1,00
Dytiki Ellada 0,81 Piemonte 1,04
Sterea Ellada 0,90 Valle d'Aosta 1,00
Peloponnisos 0,79 Liguria 1,01
Attiki 1,23 Lombardia 1,16
Voreio Aigaio 0,90 Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen 1,15
Notio Aigaio 0,97 Provincia Autonoma di Trento 1,04
Kriti 0,83 Veneto 1,03
Friuli-Venezia Giulia 1,08
Spain 1,00 Emilia-Romagna 1,06
Galicia 0,88 Toscana 0,95
Principado de Asturias 0,98 Umbria 0,87
Cantabria 0,96 Marche 0,90
País Vasco 1,17 Lazio 1,07
Comunidad Foral de Navarra 1,07 Abruzzo 0,89
La Rioja 0,92 Molise 0,82
Aragón 0,98 Campania 0,84
Comunidad de Madrid 1,18 Puglia 0,82
Castilla y León 0,91 Basilicata 0,86
Castilla-la Mancha 0,88 Calabria 0,75
Extremadura 0,84 Sicilia 0,86
Cataluña 1,09 Sardegna 0,84
Comunidad Valenciana 0,91
Illes Balears 0,96 Portugal 1,00
Andalucía 0,87 Norte 0,86
Región de Murcia 0,84 Algarve 0,87
Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta 1,07 Centro 0,84
Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla 1,04 Área Metropolitana de Lisboa 1,33
Canarias 0,91 Alentejo 0,91
Região Autónoma dos Açores 0,91
Poland 1,00 Região Autónoma da Madeira 0,95
Lódzkie 0,75
Mazowieckie 1,26 United Kingdom 1,00
Malopolskie 1,05 England 1,01
Slaskie 1,19 Wales 0,83
Lubelskie 0,60 Scotland 0,99
Podkarpackie 0,81 Northern Ireland 0,83
Swietokrzyskie 0,63
Podlaskie 0,73
Wielkopolskie 1,16
Zachodniopomorskie 1,06
Lubuskie 0,88
Dolnoslaskie 1,22
Kujawsko-Pomorskie 0,91
Warminsko-Mazurskie 0,83
Pomorskie 0,78

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[^ntr1-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0001]: These unit costs cannot be used for types of operations for which other simplified cost options are established in another annex to this Delegated Regulation.

[^ntr2-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0002]: Other potential eligible costs of this type of operation, such as allowances, transport, accommodation or other type of support provided to students participating in these types of operations, are not covered by the unit cost.

[^ntr3-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0003]: Verified attendance means that proof of the attendance of the student in the formal education or training course is to be verified by national authorities on two or three occasions during the per academic year, in accordance with each Member State's normal practices and procedures for verifying attendance in formal education or training.

[^ntr4-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0004]: International Standard Classification of Education: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/International_Standard_Classification_of_Education_(ISCED)

[^ntr5-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0005]: The table in point 3.1 sets out rates for all Member States with the exception of Denmark for which data is not currently available. For courses lasting at least one full academic year, these amounts can be reimbursed to the Member State on the following basis: 50 % for the first proof of attendance during the academic year (normally at the beginning of the academic year, in accordance with national rules and practices), 30 % for the second proof of attendance and 20 % for the third and final proof of attendance. For those Member States whose national systems provide for this information to be collected only twice per year, or for courses lasting less than one full academic year, it will be 50 % for the first proof of attendance and 50 % for the second and final proof of attendance.

[^ntr6-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0006]: The training courses can be primarily either institutional or workplace-based, but must be delivered at least partly in an institutional setting.

[^ntr7-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0007]: A training course will be considered as ‘successfully completed’ when there is a document demonstrating completion in accordance with national rules or practices. For example, this could be a certificate issued by the training provider or an equivalent document which is acceptable under national rules or practices.

The condition of successfully completing a training course shall not be regarded as being met where a participant successfully only completes some of the modules within a training course.

[^ntr8-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0008]: Employment-related counselling services can be provided in a one-on-one situation or as part of a group. They include all services and activities undertaken by the PES, together with services provided by other public agencies or any other bodies contracted under public finance, which facilitate the integration of unemployed and other jobseekers in the labour market or which assist employers in recruiting and selecting staff.

[^ntr9-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0009]: As demonstrated by a verifiable time management system.

[^ntr10-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0010]: As demonstrated by a verifiable time management system.

[^ntr11-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0011]: As demonstrated by a verifiable time management system.

[^ntr12-L_2019069EN.01002702-E0012]: N/A indicates that no data is available for that particular Member State and the indicated education level.

Reference year of data collection is 2015 apart from fields marked with a * (including all fields for FI, HR, IE, NL and UK) — reference year is 2014 for these fields.

ANNEX VII

‘ANNEX XV

Conditions for reimbursement of expenditure on the basis of standard scales of unit costs to Cyprus

1. Definition of standard scales of unit costs

Type of operations Indicator name Category of costs Measurement unit for the indicators Amounts (in EUR)
1. “School and Social Inclusion Actions” under Priority Axis 3 of Operational Programme Employment, Human Resources and Social Cohesion (CCI 2014CY05M9OP001). 1) Rate for one period of 45 minutes for teachers hired on contract. 2) Daily rate for permanent and temporary teachers. All eligible costs including direct staff costs. 1) Number of hours worked. 2) Number of days worked. 1) 21 per 45-minute period 2) 300 per day
2. “Establishment and Functioning of a Central ADMINISTRATION of Welfare Benefits Service” under Priority Axis 3 of Operational Programme Employment, Human Resources and Social Cohesion (CCI 2014CY05M9OP001). Monthly rate for permanent and temporary government employees. All eligible costs including direct staff costs. Number of months worked differentiated by salary scale. Salary Scales amounts Α1 1 794 A2 1 857 A3 2 007 A4 2 154 A5 2 606 A6 3 037 A7 3 404 A8 3 733 A9 4 365 A10 4 912 A11 5 823 A12 6 475 A13 7 120
3. Disability and functionality assessments under Priority Axis 3 of Operational Programme Employment, Human Resources and Social Cohesion (CCI 2014CY05M9OP001). 1) Provision of a disability assessment. 2) Provision of a disability and functionality assessment. All categories of eligible costs. Number of assessments carried out. 1) Disability assessment:190 2) Disability and functionality assessment: 303
4. Reform of the vocational education and training system under under Priority Axis 3 of Operational Programme Employment, Human Resources and Social Cohesion (CCI 2014CY05M9OP001). 1. One day of work by a teacher 2. One month of work by a teacher 3. One hour of work by a teacher hired on contract 4. One hour of work by a laboratory assistant hired on contract 5. One minute of work by a psychologist hired on contract All categories of eligible costs 1. Number of days of work by a teacher, differentiated by salary scale 2. Number of months of work by a teacher, differentiated by salary scale 3. Number of teaching hours (45 min) of work by a teacher hired on contract 4. Number of teaching hours (45 min) of work by a laboratory assistant hired on contract 5. Number of minutes of work by a psychologist hired on contract 1) Salary scale amounts A8 277 A9 330 A10 371 A11 440 A12 488 2) A8 4 554 A9 5 404 A10 6 082 A11 7 210 A12 8 005 A13 8 791 3) 34 4) 21 5) 0,63

2. Adjustment of amounts

Not applicable.

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ANNEX VIII

‘ANNEX XVI

Conditions for reimbursement of expenditure on the basis of standard scales of unit costs to Croatia

1. Definition of standard scales of unit costs

Type of operations Indicator name Category of costs Measurement unit for the indicators Amounts (in HRK)
1. Improving access to education for disadvantaged students at pre-tertiary level by providing targeted professional support to students through teaching assistants under Priority Axis 3 “Education and Lifelong learning” of the Operational Programme “Efficient Human Resources” (2014HR05M9OP001) Months worked by a teaching assistant All eligible costs of the operation Number of months worked 4 530,18
2. Occupational training under priority axis 1 “High employment and labour mobility” of the Operational Programme “Efficient Human Resources” (2014HR05M9OP001) Months of participation in occupational training All eligible costs of the operation except travel costs for the participant, costs of participant's education and professional exam (if applicable) Number of months of participation in occupational training For participants without prior work experience: 3 318,81 For participants with prior work experience: a) for first 12 months of participation in occupational training3 791,19 b) for last 12 months of participation in occupational training3 318,81
3. Public works programmes supported under priority axis 1 “High employment and labour mobility” and priority axis 2 “Social inclusion” of the Operational Programme “Efficient Human Resources” (2014HR05M9OP001) Months during which an employment aid is paid for an employee in a public works programme All eligible costs of the operation except travel costs for the participant, costs of participant's education and professional exam (if applicable) Number of months' employment aid per employee a) 3 943,24 for full- time employment, 100 % employment aid intensity b) 1 971,62 for full- time employment, 50 % employment aid intensity and half-time employment, 100 % aid intensity
4. Active labour market measures supported under priority axis 1 “High employment and labour mobility” and priority axis 2 “Social inclusion” of the Operational Programme “Efficient Human Resources” (2014HR05M9OP001) Months during which the participant takes part in an active employment policy measure. Travel costs Number of months participated in an active employment measure. 452,16

2. Adjustment of amounts

Unit costs 2 shall be adjusted each calendar year by replacing the amount for financial aid and the contribution for compulsory insurance in the calculation method.

Adjustments will be based on:

  • — for financial aid, changes to the Statutory minimum wage according to the Minimum Wage Decree issued by Government, published on Official Gazette of Republic of Croatia (https://www.nn.hr)
  • — for contributions for compulsory insurance, changes to the minimum monthly bases according to the Order on the bases for calculation of contributions for compulsory insurance issued by Minister of Finance, published on Official Gazette of Republic of Croatia (https://www.nn.hr).

In addition any changes of the Employment Promotion Act provisions regulating mechanisms for determining financial aid and compulsory insurance payments for Occupational training and/or any changes of the Act on Contributions (NN 84/08, 152/08, 94/09, 18/11, 22/12, 144/12, 148/13, 41/14, 143/14, 115/16) provisions regulating calculations for compulsory contributions may entail changes to the proposed calculation method.

The amount for unit costs 3 shall be adjusted each calendar year by replacing the amount for Statutory minimum wage and the annual sickleave rate in the calculation method.

Adjustments will be based on:

  • — changes to the Statutory minimum wage according to the Minimum Wage Decree issued by Government for a calendar year, published on Official Gazette of Republic of Croatia (https://www.nn.hr) according to the Article 7 of the Law on Minimum Wage (NN 39/13)
  • — changes to the official annual sick leave rate in Croatia, published on the website of Croatian Health Insurance Fund (http://www.hzzo.hr/o-zavodu/izvjesca/). In addition any changes of the Act on Contributions (NN 84/08, 152/08, 94/09, 18/11, 22/12, 144/12, 148/13, 41/14, 143/14, 115/16) provisions regulating calculations for compulsory contributions may entail changes to the proposed calculation method.

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ANNEX IX

‘ANNEX XX

Conditions for reimbursement of expenditure on the basis of standard scales of unit costs to Bulgaria

1. Definition of standard scales of unit costs

Type of operations Indicator name Category of costs Measurement unit for the indicators Amounts
Vocational training under priority Axis 1 and 2 of OP 2014BG05M9OP001 Participants gaining qualification upon leaving vocational training. All eligible costs of the operation. Number of participants who have attended at least 80 % of the classes and have successfully completed vocational training courses and have received a corresponding certificate. See table under point 3

2. Adjustment of amounts

Unit costs adjustment shall be linked to amendments in the national regulations — Council of Ministers Decree (CMD) No 280/2015 and the National Action Plan for Employment for implementation of the labour market's active policy for the respective year.

3. Amounts (in BGN) [^ntr1-L_2019069EN.01004102-E0001]

Training courses for acquisition of professional qualifications Minimum duration in training hours Amounts Amounts including indirect costs for beneficiaries selected via a competitive grant awarding procedure Amounts including indirect costs for beneficiaries selected via a direct grant awarding procedure
First degree courses 300 600 660 624
Second degree courses 660 1 200 1 320 1 248
Third degree courses 960 1 800 1 980 1 872
Part of a profession on first degree qualification[^ntr2-L_2019069EN.01004102-E0002] 200 400 440 416
Part of a profession on second degree qualification 300 600 660 624
Part of a profession on third degree qualification 600 1 125 1 237,50 1 170
Training courses for acquisition of key competences Minimum duration in training hours Amounts Amounts Amounts including indirect costs for beneficiaries selected via a competitive grant awarding procedure
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Training courses for acquisition of key competences Minimum duration in training hours for unemployed for employed and self-employed for unemployed
Key competence 2 — communication in foreign language 300 700 700 770
Key competence 3 — mathematics and basic knowledge of natural sciences and technologies 30 140 70 154
Key competence 4 — digital competence 45 250 250 275
Key competence 5 — skill for learning 30 140 70 154
Key competence 6 — social and civil competences 30 140 70 154
Key competence 7 — enterprise and entrepreneurship 30 140 70 154

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[^ntr1-L_2019069EN.01004102-E0001]: If participants are required to pay fees for the participation in the training, the amounts due need to be deducted from the unit cost.

[^ntr2-L_2019069EN.01004102-E0002]: Part of a profession is to be understood as training courses partly completed with the minimum hours as specified in above table (point (3).

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