The ENRD Contact Point held a training on reasonableness of costs and public procurement in Brussels on 17 March 2015. The training aimed at improving the capacity of national and regional authorities to ensure sound financial management of EU funds, including best value for money. By improving their public procurement procedures and reasonableness of costs systems, managing authorities are expected to reduce errors in rural development spending and better implement Rural Development Programmes (RDPs).
The programme of the training included two sessions dedicated respectively to public procurement and reasonableness of costs, followed by a Q&A session and exchange of practical experience.
Background documents
- Agenda
- Commission Decision EC(2013)9527 on the setting out and approval of the guidelines for determining financial corrections to be made by the Commission to expenditure financed by the Union under shared management, for non-compliance with the rules on public procurement
- Guidelines for determining financial corrections to be made to expenditure financed by the Union under shared management, for non-compliance with the rules on public procurement
- European Court of Auditor Special Report – Achieving economy: keeping the costs of EU-financed rural development project grants under control
Presentations
- Public Procurement Action Plan for ESI Funds 2015-2020, Anna-Lena Zademach-Schierz (DG REGIO)
- Public Procurement under EAFRD: specificities, Georgios Mathioudakis (DG AGRI)
- Achieving economy: keeping the costs of EU-financed rural development projects grants under control, Lars Luplow (European Court of Auditors)
- Reasonableness of costs, conclusions from audit missions, Wolfgang Kahlenborn (DG AGRI)
