Invitation for the Operating Grant to support the activities of the consumer organisation at the Union level – award to the beneficiary identified in the legal base – BEUC

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Single Market Programme (SMP) (2021-2027)

Programme Description

The Single Market Programme (SMP) covers the single market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and European statistics. Specifically, the programme brings together aspects in order to streamline, exploit synergies and provide a better flexible, transparent, simplified and agile framework to finance activities aiming at a well-functioning sustainable internal market.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

BEUC

Call

Invitation for the Operating Grant to support the activities of the consumer organisation at the Union level – award to the beneficiary identified in the legal base – BEUC

Summary

BEUC’s objective is to make the voice of consumer organisations heard in EU policy making,  to contribute to and facilitate the enforcement of consumers’ rights at EU and national levels, to protect and promote consumers’ health, safety, legal and economic interests.

Detailed Call Description

BEUC’s functioning will be co-financed. BEUC is the umbrella group for 45 independent consumer organisations from 31 countries.

BEUC´s main role is to represent them to the EU institutions and defend the interests of European consumers.

BEUC pays particular attention to the protection of vulnerable groups of consumers and integrates the needs of the next generations, by mainstreaming sustainable production and consumption.

Through its activities BEUC contributes to the EU Consumer policy objectives such as:

  • promoting consumer safety;
  • enhancing knowledge of consumer rights;
  • empowering consumers in situations of vulnerability;
  • strengthening the development and enforcement of consumer rights;
  • integrating consumer interests into the key policy sectors, such as green and digital transition and an economy that works for the people.

Call Total Budget

€2.400.000

Thematic Categories

  • Justice - Security
  • Public Administration
  • Social Affairs & Human Rights

Eligibility for Participation

  • Associations
  • Central Government
  • Consumer Organisations
  • NGOs
  • Non Profit Organisations
  • Other Beneficiaries
  • Private Bodies
  • Semi-governmental organisations
  • State-owned Enterprises

Eligibility For Participation Notes

BEUC (Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs), in accordance with Article 10 (1) (e) of the SMP Regulation and action 2.2 of Annex 3to the Commission implementing Decision C(2023) 1119.

Call Opening Date

26/03/2024

Call Closing Date

06/06/2024

National Contact Point(s)

Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry
Industry and Technology Service
1421, Nicosia, Cyprus
Emailsit@meci.gov.cy

Contact Person:
Spyros Triantaphyllidis
Telephone: 22867333
Email: striantafyllides@meci.gov.cy

EU Contact Point

For help to this call, please contact: EISMEA-CONS-grants@ec.europa.eu