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EU Funds in LatviaEU Funds in Latvia 2004-2006 2004-2006
Aleksandrs AntonovsMinistry of Finance
Deputy director of Department of EU Funds
December 4, 2006
SF & CF Managing Authority – Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia 2
Content of the Presentation
2004-2006 SF/CF Implementation Progress Results achieved Lessons learned Changes to SF Management System
SF & CF Managing Authority – Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia 3
2004-2006Structural Funds Implementation Progress (as to 30.09.2006)
72.3
92.298.3
85.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
%
ERDF ESF EAGGF FIFG
SF Commitments % from total SF allocation
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2004-2006Structural Funds Implementation Progress (as to 30.09.2006)
13.7
19.9
61.7
46.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
%
ERDF ESF EAGGF FIFG
Payments to final beneficiaries % from total SF allocation
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2004-2006Structural Funds Implementation Progress (as to 30.09.2006)
7.4 7.4 9.55.5
52.2 50.9
35.7 35.7
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
%
ERDF ESF EAGGF FIFG
Certified expenditure, EC payments into national budget % from total SF allocation
Certified expenditure EC payments into national budget
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2004-2006Structural Funds Implementation Progress (as to 31.10.2006)
100.0
6.0 0.0
100.0
14.30.0
100.0100.0
24.4
100.0
90.2
0.00
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
%
ERDF ESF EAGGF FIFG
SF implementation regard to n+2 (%)
Appropriations in 2004 Appropriations in 2005 Appropriations in 2006
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2004-2006Cohesion Fund Implementation Progress(as to 30.09.2006)
100.0
27.5 27.019.4
100.0
46.2 43.1
33.9
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
%
Environment Transport
Projects approved by the EC Certified Expenditure
EC Paymnets into national budget Payments to final beneficaries
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Results achieved
Appraised 2 490 SF project applications 724 employees and experts hired Organised 52 training courses under 35 subjects for 1 196
participants Completed 7 evaluation projects, 3 evaluation projects and
1 study commenced Established 5 Structural Funds Regional Information
Centres in all regions of Latvia 33 TV and 82 radio broadcasts, as well as 6 clips on ESF-
related themes Commenced data import to the SF MIS from the CFCA,
LIDA and SRDA
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Lessons learned
Simplified project amendment process Simplified project evaluation process:
Project is evaluated in one institution; Reduced amount of documents that must be submitted; Maximum evaluation period – 3 month.
No Steering committees Involve wide range of target groups (social, regional,
NGOs, entrepreneurs, etc) in regulation designing process, public discussion is needed
Introduction of “Silence period” after the adoption of detail regulations
More elastic system of advance payments
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Changes to SF Management System
Verifiable outputs No mandatory requirement to check verifiable outputs when making interim
payments (Amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations on the State Budget Planning and Payment Procedure in SF Projects; announced to State Secretaries on 09/11/2006)
VAT A possibility to approve a SF claim prior to receiving a certification from the
State Revenue Service (Amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations on the Application of VAT in SF Projects; scheduled for announcement to the State
Secretaries on 16/11/2006) Procurement methodologies
2007-2013. The Procurement Monitoring Bureau (PMB) – an institution involved in the SF management, ensures sample checks of procurement documentation and procedures prior to launching a project
Methodologies to the SF Final Beneficiaries for the application of the public procurement law – developed by the PMB by 01/01/2007
