The Joint Harmonised EU Programme of Business and Consumer Surveys in the EU Member States and in the Candidate Countries - May 2021-April 2025

The European Commission is launching a call for proposals carrying out business and consumer surveys, as part of the Joint Harmonised EU Programme of business and consumer surveys (BCS)  in all EU Member States and candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey).

The BCS programme is designed to gather information on the state of the economies in the EU and candidate countries, in order to be able to compare their business cycles for economic and monetary union (EMU) management purposes.

The co-operation between the Commission and future beneficiaries shall be established in the form of Framework partnership agreements that will be concluded for the period May 2021-April 2025 (4 years).

New deadline - How to submit a proposal?

Please read carefully the detailed instructions in section 5) ‘Admissibility requirements of applications’ and section 14) ‘Procedure for the submission of proposals’ in the below Specifications of the call for proposals with ref. 2020 ECFIN 001/A3.

Due to the exceptional circumstances of COVID-19, applications shall be sent electronically and exclusively to the functional mailbox ECFIN-GRANT-PROPOSALSec [dot] europa [dot] eu (ECFIN-GRANT-PROPOSALS[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) no later than 23 September 2020, 14.00 (CET).

Exceptionally, paper applications sent by postal mail or courier service, can also be accepted on the conditions stipulated in the above-mentioned sections 5) and 14) of the Specifications of the call for proposals.

All relevant information, formalities and documentation can be found in the above Specifications of the call for proposals as well as hereafter in the:

A checklist is available to assist you in preparing your application:

Your proposal must include the following compulsory standard forms, accompanied where indicated by the required attachments:

Forms for contracts

The forms to communicate the legal or banking coordinates for a contract or subvention, and the general conditions on low-value contracts.

Model agreements

Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA)

Annex II -     General conditions (see model FPA above)

Annex III -    Model specific grant agreement (SGA) (see model SGA below)

(see also below Annex II SGA – budget and financial statement are merged into one document)

Annexes VI - VIII (not applicable)

Specific Grant Agreement (SGA)

Annex II -     Model estimated budget (see above Annex V FPA – budget and financial statement are merged into one document)

New deadline - Questions about the call

Questions must be sent to ECFIN-BCS-2020-CALL-Questionsec [dot] europa [dot] eu (ECFIN-BCS-2020-CALL-Questions[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu).

Applications sent to this mailbox will not be accepted.

New deadline for asking questions: 17 September 2020.