EU - Financial Transparency System / [ei nimeä] 8df879b0-e522-48df-8996-3597df879381

About

Overview:

The names of the beneficiaries of the €10 billion or so of grants and other forms of support, awarded (in budgetary terms: "committed") by the Commission every year, either directly or through "executive agencies" set up to help it run EU funded programmes. The site also contains certain procurement contracts, excluding for the moment those linked to administrative expenditure of the Commission.

Data

Currently includes data from 2007. 2009 will be the first year for which figures will be available in full. Over 28,000 records.

Main fields are:

• Year
• Name of beneficiary
• Coordinator
• Address,City
• Postal code
• Country / Territory
• Co-financing rate
• Amount
• Commitment position key
• Subject of grant or contract
• Responsible Department
• Budget line name and number
• Programme

More details can be found at:

• http://ec.europa.eu/beneficiaries/fts/find_en.htm

Openness

Free to be re-used as long as attribution is given. The Copyright notice on the European Commission website states:

Reproduction is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged, save where otherwise stated.

Where prior permission must be obtained for the reproduction or use of textual and multimedia information (sound, images, software, etc.), such permission shall cancel the above-mentioned general permission and shall clearly indicate any restrictions on use.