Institutional structures for Structural Funds assistance

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Institutional structures for Structural Funds
assistance
Ministry of Finance
September 10, 2003
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Approaches to design of Implementation Schemes

• Diversity of activities within the SPD
• Different target groups and recipients of
  assistance
• Existing national institutional arrangements and
  administrative practices
• Experience in management of EU pre-accession
  instruments

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Types of projects

• Projects to be selected in open call for
  applications
• National projects
• Aid schemes

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Projects to be selected in open call for
applications

• Applied for projects where the best projects can
  be selected by an open competition and depend on
  specificity of proposed activities. These
  projects can be implemented on case by case
  basis.
• Examples of Activities Support to establishment
  public internet access points, support to
  agriculture holdings

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National projects

• Applied in cases where it is necessary to agree
  on package of projects that are mutually linked
  and have a common objective. These packages of
  projects are elaborated in accordance with
  specific national sectoral strategy.
• Examples of Activities optimisation of road
  infrastructure, labour market institutions
  capacity building.

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Aid schemes

• In cases where there is a need to implement a
  large number of small scale sector specific
  interventions the implementing body granting aid
  needs to be capable in dealing with the specific
  group of recipients
• Examples of Activities - marketing support to
  exporting SMEs

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Institutional structures forStructural Funds
assistance
Paying Authority State Treasury
Managing Authority Ministry of Finance
Monitoring Committee
Steering Committees
Line ministries Ministry of Regional
Development and Local Government Affairs
Ministry of Economy Ministry of Welfare
Ministry of Education and Science Ministry of
Agriculture Ministry of Transport Ministry of
Environment Ministry of Health Ministry of
Culture.

• Intermediate Bodies
• - Central Finance and Contract Unit in relation
  to ERDF
• State Employment Service in relation to ESF
• (measures for development of employment)
• - Professional Education Development Programme
  Agency
• in relation to ESF
• (measures for development of education)
• - Rural Support Service in relation to EAGGF and
  FIFG

Aid scheme managers (e.g. LDA, LGA, SIF)
Final beneficiaries (state and municipal
enterprises, private enterprises and physical
persons, local governments, state institutions,
non-governmental organisations a.o.)
Based on the Regulations of Cabinet of
Ministers approved on September 2, 2003
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Main institutions and their tasks

• Managing Authority
• Paying Authority
• Line ministries
• Intermediate bodies
• Aid scheme managers
• Monitoring Committee
• Steering Committees

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Managing Authority

• Ministry of Finance
• Ensures overall management, control,
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the
  programme by maintaining and coordinating the
  functioning of the system

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Managing Authority

• Planned internal structure of department of EU
  Funds
• Unit for ERDF
• Unit for ESF
• Unit of EAGGF and FIFG
• IT systems unit
• Information and publicity unit

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Paying Authority

• State Treasury
• Ensures financial management and processing of
  payments

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Line ministries

• Ensures coherent policy content of the programme
  by
• selecting the projects in case of open calls for
  proposals,
• elaborating sectoral interventions in case of
  national projects,
• approval of aid schemes

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Intermediate bodies

• CFCU, SES, RSS, AVEDP
• Ensures technical, administrative and financial
  management in respect to final beneficiaries
• Enter in contract with the designated aid scheme
  managers on implementation of aid schemes and
  carry out controls

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Aid Scheme managers

• Implements the aid scheme by ensuring technical,
  administrative and financial management in
  respect to specific group of recipients
• e.g. Latvian Development Agency

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Monitoring Committee

• review and approve Programme complement
• approve selection criteria for projects financed
  within the relevant structural fund developed by
  Line ministries
• review and approve reviews and reports on the SPD
  implementation progress prepared by managing
  authority for submission to European Commission
• ensure monitoring of the implementation of the
  SPD in general, including reviewing reports and
  evaluating the implementation progress of SPD
  measures.

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Steering Committees

• review project selection criteria before their
  submission to the Monitoring Committee
• approve the project application form and
  guidelines for project preparation in the case of
  open call for proposals for ERDF and ESF
• check regularly the implementation progress of
  Priorities and measures of particular structural
  fund
• review implementation reviews and reports on SPD
  implementation progress for the Fund and Priority
  prepared by Managing authority for submission to
  European Commission
• Ensures coordination between differrent partners
  involved in the implmenetation of the priority
• 4 Steering Committees one for each Structural
  fund chaired by Managing Authority
• Representatives Managing Authority, line
  ministries, Intermediate Bodies, social partners,
  Regional Development Councils, Union of Local
  Governments of Latvia

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ERDF and ESF project selection - open call for
applications
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ERDF and ESF project selection - national projects
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EAGGF and FIFG project selection open call for
applications
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Project implementation, payment flows and
monitoring
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ERDF and ESF implementation scheme - aid schemes
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