Managing authority
Under the provisions of Chapter 21 of the
Accession Treaty and with Decision of Council of Ministers No
965/16.12.2005, Directorate General “Programming of Regional
Development” within the Ministry of Regional Development and Public
Works (MRDPW) is appointed as Managing Authority of OP “Regional
Development”.
DG “Programming of Regional Development” is part
of the specialised administration of MRDPW performing in the
pre-accession period functions of PHARE Sectoral Coordinator with
responsibilities for programming and monitoring of regional development
and cross-border cooperation measures. The experience of using one
single body responsible for CBC and regional development is applied also
for the post-accession period whereby the Directorate General is
appointed as Managing Authority for the cross-border and trans-national
programmes under the “Territorial cooperation” objective. In addition,
OPRD contains actions for interregional cooperation as referred to in
Article 37 (6) (b) of the General Regulation. Continuity, avoidance of
overlap and promotion of coherence are thus ensured.
OPRD
Managing Authority is responsible for managing and implementing the
operational programme efficiently, effectively and correctly in
accordance with the principle of sound financial management and as
defined under the respective articles of the General Regulation and the
corresponding sections of the Commission Regulation on structural funds
implementation . OPRD Managing Authority responsibilities include in
particular:
• ensuring that operations are selected for
funding in accordance with the criteria applicable to the operational
programme and that they comply with applicable Community and national
rules for the whole of their implementation period;
• verifying
that the co-financed products and services are delivered and that the
expenditure declared by the beneficiaries for operations has actually
been incurred and complies with Community and national rules;
verifications on-the-spot of individual operations may be carried out on
a sample basis in accordance with the detailed rules to be adopted by
the Commission in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article
103(3);
• ensuring that there is a system for recording and
storing in computerised form accounting records for each operation under
the operational programme and that the data on implementation necessary
for financial management, monitoring, verifications, audits and
evaluation are collected;
• ensuring that beneficiaries and other
bodies involved in the implementation of operations maintain either a
separate accounting system or an adequate accounting code for all
transactions relating to the operation without prejudice to national
accounting rules;
• ensuring that the evaluations of operational
programmes referred to in Article 48(3) are carried out in accordance
with Article 47;
• setting up procedures to ensure that all
documents regarding expenditure and audits required to ensure an
adequate audit trail are held in accordance with the requirements of
Article 90 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006;
• ensuring
that the Certifying Authority receives all necessary information on the
procedures and verifications carried out in relation to expenditure for
the purpose of certification;
• guiding the work of the Monitoring
Committee and providing it with the documents required to permit the
quality of the implementation of the operational programme to be
monitored in the light of its specific goals;
• drawing up and,
after approval by the monitoring committee, submitting to the Commission
the annual and final reports on implementation;
• ensuring
compliance with the information and publicity requirements laid down in
Article 69 Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006.Last modified: Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:19 AM