A new version released of the Horizon Europe Annotated Grant Agreement (AGA)

A new version of the Horizon AGA—Annotated grant agreement— has just been released on the Funding&Tender Portal of the European Commission in the Reference documents/guidance a couple of days before the reference date: 1st April 2025!

Some interesting changes are:

• Article 6.1 – Clarification regarding identifiable and verifiable costs (paid or recorded).
  
• Articles 6.1 and 6.2.A.1 – Clarification of how to calculate the daily rate for eligible personnel costs incurred after the end of the action.
  
• Articles 6.2.A.2 and 6.2.A.3 – Clarification that the horizontal 215-day ceiling should only apply if the 215 annual day-equivalents have been used to calculate the daily rate.
  
• Articles 6.2.A.4 and 6.2.A.6 – Clarification of horizontal 215 days ceiling application in the case of SME owner unit cost and HE Personnel unit cost (PUC).
  
• Articles 6.D.1 and 9.4 – Clarifications concerning FSTP. Link added.
  
• Article 20 – Clarification on record-keeping for simplified costs. New annotations to add an option 2c for a number of working days specified per year and two new specific cases to cover situations where the working hours vary during different periods of the year (work pattern changes and annual seasonal fluctuations).
  
• Article 21.2 – Clarification regarding records to be kept by beneficiaries for their affiliated entities at cost-reporting.
  
• Article 24.4 – Link to new SPA procedure guidance.
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