Eligible expenditure
Article 7
1. In order to be eligible for Community financial contribution, expenditure shall: (a) be actually incurred by the Member State; (b) concern an action foreseen in the national programme; (c) be indicated in the annual budget forecast; (d) fall in one of the categories listed in Annex I; (e) concern an action executed in compliance with the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 and its implementing provisions; (f) be identifiable and verifiable, in particular being recorded in the accounting records of the Member State and their partners; (g) be determined according to the applicable accounting standards and comply with the requirements of national legislation; (h) be reasonable, justified, and comply with the requirements of sound financial management, in particular regarding economy and efficiency; (i) be incurred during the implementation period of the action as foreseen in the national programme. 2. Eligible expenditure shall be related to: (a) the following data collection activities: — collection of data on the sampling sites as referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 from direct sampling or interviews and queries, — at-sea-monitoring of commercial and recreational fisheries as referred to in Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008, — research surveys at sea as referred to in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008; (b) the following data management activities, as provided for in the multi-annual Community programme referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008: — database and web site development, — data input (storage), — data quality control and validation, — data processing from primary data into detailed or aggregated data, — transformation process of the primary socioeconomic data into metadata; (c) the following data use activities as provided for in the multi-annual Community programme referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008: — production of sets of data and their uses to support scientific analysis as a basis for advice to fisheries management, — biological parameter estimates (age, weight, sex, maturity and fecundity), — preparation of sets of data for stock assessments, bio-economic modelling and corresponding scientific analysis.