Article 110
1. Grant applications shall be submitted in writing. 2. Grant applications shall be eligible if they are submitted by the following persons: (a) legal persons; grant applications may be eligible if submitted by entities which do not have legal personality under the applicable national law, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf and assume financial liability; (b) natural persons in so far as this is required by the nature or characteristics of the action or the objective pursued by the applicant. 3. Grants may not be awarded to applicants who are, at the time of a grant award procedure, in one of the situations of exclusion referred to in Articles 96(1) and 97, and in Article 99(2)(a). Applicants shall certify that they are not in one of the situations referred to in the first subparagraph. However, the authorising officer may refrain from requiring such certification for very low valued grants. 4. The authorising officer may impose administrative and financial penalties which shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive on the applicant. Such penalties may also be imposed on beneficiaries who at the moment of the submission of the application or during the implementation of the grant, have made false declarations in supplying the information required by the authorising officer or fail to supply this information. Article 99 shall apply mutatis mutandis .