On this website you can find the names of the beneficiaries of funds awarded (in budgetary terms: "committed") by the Commission every year.
The Financial Transparency System publishes only the beneficiaries of the following sources of funding:
The following funding types are published on this site:
Data for any given year is not published until the following year. Search results include:
The following will also be given, if available:
Please note that important changes had to be implemented in the Financial Transparency System (FTS) following the entry into force of the EU new Financial Regulation and its rules of application. These have an impact on the publication of financial year 2012 data onwards. The main changes are as follows:
Please note that a small number of beneficiaries are not published on this website for security reasons.
In the case of multiple beneficiaries of the same grant or other support scheme, the system will list all of them, providing the amounts per beneficiary, if this information is available.
The basic requirement for the Commission to publish this information on beneficiaries of EU funds is given in Article 38 of the financial regulation applicable to the general budget of the Union: Article 38 Publication of information on recipients and other information.
Publication of information on recipients and other information
The Commission shall make available on a centralised website information on recipients of funds financed from the budget no later than 30 June of the year following the financial year in which the funds were legally committed, where the budget is implemented by it in accordance with Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (a), by Union institutions in accordance with Article 59(1), and by the Union bodies referred to in Articles 70 and 71.
Where the budget is implemented in accordance with Article 62(1), first subparagraph, points (b) and (c), and with Member States in accordance to Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (a), the Commission shall make available on its centralised website, as referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph, information on recipients no later than 30 June of the year following the financial year in which the contract or agreement setting out the conditions of support was established. Where the budget is implemented in accordance with Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (b), references in this Article to recipients shall be understood as references to recipients, contractors, subcontractors and beneficiaries as referred to in sector-specific rules. Information listed under paragraph 2 of this Article for such recipients shall be published provided sector-specific rules require their collection and storage.
In the cases referred to in the first subparagraph, point (c), the information made available shall be limited to statistical data, aggregated in accordance with relevant criteria, such as geographical situation, economic typology of recipients, type of support received and the Union policy area under which such support was provided.
Where natural persons are concerned, the disclosure of the information referred to in paragraph 2 shall be based on relevant criteria such as the frequency or the type of the measure and the amounts involved.
Persons or entities implementing Union funds pursuant to Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (c), shall publish information on recipients in accordance with rules and procedures of those persons or entities, to the extent that those rules are deemed equivalent following the assessment carried out by the Commission pursuant to Article 157(3) and (4), first subparagraph, point (e), and provided that any publication of personal data is subject to safeguards equivalent to those set out in this Article.
Bodies designated pursuant to Article 63(3) shall publish information in accordance with sector-specific rules. Those sector-specific rules may, in accordance with the relevant legal basis, derogate from paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article and taking into account the specificities of the sector concerned.
Member States that receive and implement Union funds under Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (a), shall ensure ex post publication of information on their recipients, on a centralised website referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article.
The websites of Union institutions shall contain a reference to the centralised website referred to in paragraph 1 where the information referred to in that paragraph can be found.
The Commission shall make available, in an appropriate and timely manner, information about the centralised website referred to in paragraph 1, including a reference to its address, where the information as provided by the Member States, persons, entities or bodies referred to in paragraph 4 can be found.
For the purposes of the first and second subparagraphs of paragraph 1 of this Article and without prejudice to paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Article and to sector-specific rules, the Commission shall use the relevant data stored in the system referred to in Article 36(2), point (d), to feed the centralised website referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article with the information referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article.
In addition, the data shall also include the VAT identification number or tax identification number of natural persons where available or another unique identifier established at country level with a view to improve the quality of the data transmitted without it being used for publication.
Where personal data are published, the information shall be removed two years after the end of the financial year in which the funds were legally committed.
Where the budget is implemented in accordance with Article 62(1), first subparagraph, points (b) and (c), the personal data shall be removed two years after the end of the financial year in which the contract or agreement setting out the conditions of support was established.
Article 277
Transitional provisions
...6. Article 38(4), third subparagraph, and (6) shall apply only to programmes adopted under and financed from post-2027 multiannual financial frameworks.
The European Commission maintains this website in order to make available information on beneficiaries of EU funds. Information contained in this website are processed in accordance Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. However, if errors are brought to our attention, we will correct them in line with the protection of personal data principles.
Please note that the FTS provides information on funding from the EU budget implemented directly by the European Commission ('direct management') or implemented indirectly by other international organisations or non-EU countries ('indirect management'). Up to 75% of the EU budget expenditure is managed by both the European Commission and Member States ('shared management'). You can find more information about shared management in areas such as agriculture, cohesion policy, growth and employment by clicking on the links below:
