cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:58:42 +200 from: hleusch@gwdg.de subject: reimburse to: j.sear@uea.ac.uk Dr. Hanns Hubert Leuschner Inst. f. Palynologie University Goettingen e-mail copy of a letter sent by snail mail today Cc to Dr. Keith Briffa CRU UEA For the attention of Mrs. Janet Sear The Registry Finance Division University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 /TJ England Grant ref. EV5V-CT94-0500 Dear Mrs. Sear We have recieved your letter and e-mail. Please excuse "disallowed", I had in mind a much softer meaning than it has now after looking at the dictionary. Nevertheless I can not agree with your request. We have checked all our cost statements as well as the cost statement from Bruxelles with the payment breakdown details. We found out that there is a disagreement concerning the second cost statement (period 07/95- 07/96). The exchange rate of ECU/DM at the time of the transfer of the money (04/96) had been 1.88. That means that we have spent in this period not 68.160 ECU but 70.719,10 ECU. In agreement with that your second transfer of 32.316,88 ECU had been exchanged to 60.711,83 DM. In the payment breakdown an exchange rate of about 1.95 as at the end of the project is taken into account. We have spent the whole money for the project except 732,72 ECU. This "overpayment" is mainly due to the high exchange rate for the final 10% rate. I therefore only agree to reimburse this calculated difference of 732,62 ECU. Yours sincerely Hanns Hubert Leuschner