FIRST LEVEL CONTROL REPRESENTATIVES
According to art. 23.4 of Regulation (EU) No 1299/2013, where the Managing Authority does not carry out verifications that the co-financed products and services have been delivered and that expenditure declared by the beneficiaries has been paid and that it complies with applicable law throughout the whole programme area, each ADRION Partner State shall designate the body or person responsible for carrying out such verifications in relation to beneficiaries on its territory (the ‘controller(s)’).
The national control system set in place by the ADRION Partner State can be:
Centralized system: the Partner State appoints one body/institution in charge of performing the necessary verifications on expenditure of the PPs located on its territory. The Partner State can also decide whether the service is free of charge or not.
Decentralized system: the LP/PP located in that Partner State has to identify its controller in accordance with the rules and procedures defined at national level. The identified controller can be external (i.e.: a single independent controller selected on the market) or internal (i.e.: in case of bodies only: this option is applicable upon condition that the controller is independent from the department in charge of the project implementation). In both cases the selected controller is subject to the approval of the approbation body appointed at national level for this purpose. Verifications must be paid (expenditure is eligible for reimbursement by the programme).
In the following table an overview on the different systems in force in the ADRION Partner States is provided. Detailed and updated information is present both in the Interreg ADRION web site and on the web site of the National Contact Points and/or appointed controllers.
| Partner State | System type | Cost of control | Additional information |
| Albania | Centralised | Free of charge | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Centralised | Free of charge | |
| Croatia | Centralised | Free of charge | |
| Greece | Centralised | Free of charge | Greece_Controllers |
| Italy | Decentralized | Charged to beneficiaries | Controllers shall be selected by the Italian LP/PPs; their identification must respect the procurement rules.
If the LP/PP is a public body, the controller can be appointed internally on condition that it is independent from the department in charge of the project implementation (financial and activities). Appointed controllers, regardless whether internal or external, must be validated by the national ad hoc Committee (Commissione Mista). |
| Montenegro | Centralised | Free of charge | |
| Serbia | Centralised | Free of charge | |
| Slovenia | Centralised | Free of charge |
Contact details of Partner States controllers can be found below.
| Country: | FLC Institution: | Institution website: | Contact person: | E-mail: |
| ALBANIA | Ministry of Finance and Economy, General Directorate for contracting and financing of EU, WB and other donor funds
Blv. “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, No. 31010, Tirana |
www.financa.gov.al | Veronika Korkaj | veronika.korkaj@financa.gov.al |
| BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | Ministry of Finance and Treasury BiH, Sector for Financing of the IPA Programmes and Projects (CFCU)
Trg BiH 1, 71000 Sarajevo |
www.mft.gov.ba | Vera Letica
Hanifa Ramović |
vletica@mft.gov.ba |
| CROATIA | Ministry of regional development and EU funds
Miramarska cesta 22, 10 000 Zagreb |
www.razvoj.gov.hr | Andrijana Gavran | Andrijana.gavran@mrrfeu.hr |
| GREECE | Certifying and Verifying Authority, First Level Control Unit, Navarchou Nikodimou 11,
GR-105 58 Athens |
www.espa.gr | Christos Tsikmanlis | ctsikmanlis@mnec.gr |
| MONTENEGRO | Ministry of finance and social welfare, Directorate for Finance and Contracting of the EU Assistance Funds (CFCU)
Stanka Dragojevića 2, 81000, Podgorica Montenegro |
www.mif.gov.me | Marija Vukčević Acting Director-General |
marija.vukcevic@mif.gov.me |
| SERBIA | Ministry of Finance, Department for Contracting and Financing of EU Funded Programmes (CFCU)
Division for FLC Sremska 3-5, 11000 Belgrade |
www.mfin.gov.rs | Ms. Tijana Tašković | tijana.taskovic@mfin.gov.rs |
| SLOVENIA | SLOVENIA, MINISTRY OF COHESION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Control and Evaluation Division, Interreg Programmes and Financial Mechanism Control | www.svrk.gov.si | Maja Martinšek | maja.martinsek@gov.si |
| ITALY | Agency for the Territorial Cohesion
Via Sicilia, 162/c IT – 00187 Rome www.agenziacoesione.gov.it |
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