Fight against fraud: protection of the Community financial interests, Hercule action programme 2004-2006

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Herbert BÖSCH (PES, A) and made some amendments to the Commission's proposal. (Please see the document dated 19/02/04.) Parliament specified that the amount of a grant for an activity awarded under the programme might not exceed the following rates: -50% of eligible expenditure for technical support; -80% of eligible expenditure for training measures, promoting exchanges of specialised staff and the holding of seminars and conferences, provided that the beneficiaries are those specified in the decision; -90% of eligible expenditure for the holding of seminars and conferences, for certain other beneficiaries. The Commission's proposal stated that the grant should not exceed 90% of the eligible expenditure of the body for the calendar year for which the grant is intended.�