Claudia Piltz at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology leads the financial administration of the COMBINE project. The financial administration include:

• receiving the entire financial contribution from the Commission. With advice from the Project Coordinator it will manage this contribution by allocating it to the Contractors pursuant to the “Work Plan” and the decisions taken by the appropriate bodies.
• preparing annual accounts, if requested by the Commission or by the Contractors, to inform them of the distribution of funds among the Contractors;
• the overall financial management of the coordination,
• keeping track of budgets