Costs covered by the fees
Article 3
(1) The programming document, including the budget, adopted by the Administrative Board of the Agency by 31 December of each year pursuant to Article 20 of Regulation (EU) 2019/942, hereinafter the ‘programming document’, shall identify those costs which are eligible for funding by fees in the following year and provide an estimate of the eligible costs planned to be funded by fees for additional two years thereafter. Eligible costs are costs, including overhead, incurred by the Agency by: (a) collecting, handling, processing and analysing of information reported by RRMs; (b) collecting, handling, processing and analysing of information reported by IIPs; (c) exercising the supervision and investigation powers pursuant to Articles 13 to 13c and Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011. (2) The programming document shall set the amount to be covered by fees in the following year. That amount shall: (a) not exceed the eligible costs pursuant to paragraph 1; (b) be lower than the Union contribution to the Agency according to the Union budget for the respective year. (3) The Agency shall provide detailed information on the amount of fees collected and the costs covered by the fees in the previous year in the Consolidated Annual Activity Report pursuant to Article 48 of the Financial Regulation of the Agency. The Agency shall make the respective sections of this report public.