What is an amendment?
You can do changes to the project and the project plan. Bigger changes will need and amendment to the contract. Ask your research support team if the changes you will make requires and amendment and get help with the process.
You need an amendment in these cases:
- Partners leaving the consortium
- Adding new partners
- Changes to partner’s legal names and official registration numbers or VAT number
- Changes to third parties
- Change of coordinator
- Change of project bank account (only the one held by the coordinator)
- Changes of staring date or duration of project
- Changes to Annex 1
- Changes to tasks and work
- Changes involving subcontracting
- Bigger budget changes (however transfer of budget between partners will in most case be allowed without an amendment)
- Changes of specific cost categories such as unit costs (e.g. unit cost for clinical trials)
Though not very popular by the EC the most frequent reason for an amendment is duration of project which means and extension and a later finishing date. You will need credible reasons for an amendment on duration. In most cases this means that external factor out of your immediate control has caused the delay.