Legal Entity Appointed Representative

The Legal Entitity Appointed Representative (LEAR) is a person working in an organisation (usually an administrative staff member) who has the right to modify the legal and financial information stored in Participant Portal, about this organisation.

He or she is formally appointed by the legal representative (CEO, rector, Director-General, etc.) of the organisation to perform certain tasks on behalf of his/her organisation, as part of its participation in EU funded projects that are managed via the Participant Portal.

His/her tasks are to manage the legal and financial information of the organisation in the Beneficiary Register on the Participant Portal and to provide and update the list of persons in his/her organisation who are authorised to sign grant agreements (LSIGN) or financial statements (FSIGN).

A LEAR can:

- view an organisation’s legal and financial data in the ‘Beneficiary Register’ in the ‘My Area’ Section of the Participant Portal, the EU’s dedicated (secure) website for funding;

- ask the Commission to validate updates of this information where necessary;

- monitor whether or not this information is validated by the Commission, and when;

- monitor all uses made of your organisation’s Participant Identification Code (PIC).