-Honesty-Cooperation-Responsibility-Respect

Established in 2003 by the Ministry of Economy.

Non – profit public institution.

Managing and administrating financial assistance provided by the E

Structural Funds (2004-2006 & 2007-2013).

In 2007-2013 period LBSA is responsible for the administration of 1.3

billion EUR at the sectors of:

- Energy; - Tourism; - Business; - Research and development.

Functions of LBSA

Statistics (for 2012-01-27)

Calls for Proposals of the Project Application (contest call):

The initiator is Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania

Made available to the public (press, www) in accordance with the defined format

Defined by 2-3 month time limit up to which project applications can be given

LBSA gets documentation, makes seminars, gives written and oral responding

Calls for Proposals of the Project Application (planned projects):

Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania makes the lists (for each measure different list)- (National projects)

10 Regional Development Councils consist of lists of projects (for each measure different list)- (Regional projects)

In accordance with the conditions LBSA sends a call for proposal of the project application for every project by the given lists

For every project individual application term and conditions

LBSA gets documentation, makes seminars, gives written and oral responding

Preparation of the Project Application

Information on published calls placed on the web pages of Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania, LBSA and EU funding.

Relevant documents for the applicants are hosted on the web pages of Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania and LBSA :

‾ Description of implement, description of the project financing terms‾ Application general part (A)‾ Application special part (B)‾ Filing instructions and examples‾ Project List (for the planned projects)

An application prepared in accordance with the requirements is sent to LVPA

Preparation of the Project Application (most common Application mistakes):

Provide activities which are not in the list

Information doesn’t match in different application parts (generally

information about project monitoring indicators)

Make mistakes when fill in the budget (mix categories)

Provide too much money for Project administrative cost

Don’t separate eligible cost from non eligible cost

Don’t take into account signed contracts (when fill in the Project period)

Some procurement which must be done until the end of application

assessment are not made

The documents which Applicant is required to submit

Specified in the description of the project financing terms :

description of the project financing terms

Evaluation of the Project Applications: Administrative compliance and Eligibility assessment

Evaluation of the Project Applications: Eligibility assessment

Evaluation of the Project Applications: Benefits and quality

Results of assessment are entered into SFMIS

Information about assessment of the Project is published in EU funding web page

Preparation of contracts

Contract amendment

Contract amendment

Contract amendment processes in SFMIS

Areas for improvement

Reduce the requirements for the submission of the documents (paper version). Provide only those which are necessary;

During the preparation of the contract information in SFMIS automatically upload the data to the field “Contract” in order to avoid mistakes and save time;

Possibility to correct quickly technical mistakes in SFMIS by ourselves.