Call for applications for a grant to support the acquisition of accreditation for the EUCC certification scheme in the framework of financial support to third parties
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The applicant shall draw up an Application for a GRANT (hereinafter referred to as 'the application'), the form of which is attached as Annex 1 to this call for proposals and available in an editable format on the Authority's website at https://ncca.nbu.gov.sk.
The application form shall be saved in the following format: Grant_Application_Company_Name'.
Submission of an application for a GRANT by an applicant registered in the territory of the Slovak Republic:
The completed application form shall be signed by the statutory body with a qualified electronic signature or a qualified electronic signature with a mandate certificate or a qualified electronic seal.
The applicant shall send the signed application to the Authority in electronic form as an attachment to the electronic submission via the Authority's electronic mailbox established within the Central Portal of Public Administration www.slovensko.sk via the "General Agenda" service.
Submission of the application for the granting of a GRANT to applicants registered within the EU, outside the territory of the Slovak Republic:
The completed application form shall be signed by the statutory body of the applicant, and the signature may either be in written form (which means that the printed and signed project application form must be delivered to the Authority in person, by post or by courier), or the signature may be in electronic form (qualified electronic signature in accordance with EU legislation) and sent by email, while the validity of the qualified electronic signature must be verifiable.
An application that is not received by the Authority in the above form will not be considered as submitted and will be excluded from the evaluation process.
The method of delivery of the application is set out in Annex 2 of the call for proposals Conditions for the granting of the GRANT in more detail.
In order to establish the ranking of applications, each grant application is assessed with the application of the Criteria for the selection of projects, which form Annex 4 to the call . By applying the criteria for selecting projects, the Authority creates a descending ranking of applicants whose grant applications met the conditions for granting a grant, starting from the application that obtained the most points based on the criteria.
The purpose of applying the criteria for selecting projects is to determine the ranking of applicants, according to which the Authority sends a notification of compliance with the conditions for granting a grant. At the same time, it immediately sends the draft grant agreement to those applicants (in the order determined based on the project selection criteria) for whom the grant is fully covered by the amount of call funds available.
For applicants for whom the grant is not fully covered by the amount of available allocation of the call funds, the Authority will not send a draft grant agreement due to the lack of funds intended for exhaustion within the call.
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Only projects focusing on the activities of a CAB for the purpose of obtaining accreditation confirming the competence of that body to carry out conformity assessment activities on the basis of the certification scheme under the EUCC and Commission Implementing Regulation 2024/482 are considered eligible under this call. The applicant for a GRANT shall submit a project plan to become a CAB meeting the requirements of ISO/IEC 17065 or ISO/IEC 17025. The submitted project plan will allow the evaluation committee to examine the project objectives, its planned implementation and its contribution to cybersecurity. An overview of the main aspects of the project that will be assessed in the project plan structure is given in Annex 2, Part C.
a) legal persons pursuant to Section 2(2)(a) of the Commercial Code,
b) non-profit organisations pursuant to Section 2 of Act No 213/1997 Coll. on non-profit organisations providing generally beneficial services, as amended,
c) civic associations pursuant to Section 2 of Act No 83/1990 Coll. on the association of citizens, as amended,
d) interest associations of legal persons pursuant to § 20f - § 20j of Act No. 40/1964 Coll. as amended - Civil Code,
which meet all the following conditions:
§they are registered in the territory of the Slovak Republic on the date of submission of the application,
§they have, at the date of submission of the application, approved financial statements for:
- a completed accounting period which is not less than 12 months old and which is also immediately preceding the accounting period in which the application is submitted,
or
- a completed accounting period which is not an accounting period of less than 12 months and which is also immediately preceding the accounting period referred to in the preceding indent,
2. Legal entities registered in an EU Member State (except public sector organisations) which, on the date of signing the GRANT contract, prove that they have an organisational unit of a foreign legal entity registered in the Commercial Register of the Slovak Republic.
The provision of the grant to eligible applicants is set in the form of a grant of 20 000 EUR and is implemented on the basis of the application submitted and under the conditions laid down in this call and its related documents.
The calculation of the cost of obtaining accreditation has been carried out on the basis of expert estimates. Costs incurred to obtain accreditation of the conformity assessment body (excluding the costs of maintaining the accreditation) will be the following minimum amounts excluding VAT:
- the cost of initial accreditation paid to the accreditation body, as estimated by the accreditation body itself, will exceed 8 000 EUR
- the cost of relevant training (on the requirements of the EUCC certification scheme, Commission Implementing Regulation 2024/482, on the requirements of ISO/IEC 17065 and/or ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 27 001) for at least one staff member will exceed 6 000 EUR
- the cost of producing the relevant documentation and procedural documents shall exceed 6 000 EUR.
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