Government Regulation 272/2014. (XI.5.) on the use of EU funds in the 2014-2020 period in Hungary covers authorities and procedures.
It covers the following funds:
- Structural Funds (SF),
- Cohesion Fund (CF),
- European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD),
- European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF),
- Youth Employment Initiative (YEI),
- Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD)
The Regulation covers:
- Responsibilites of each authority
- Main rules of procedures for the use of funds:
- Planning the implementation of OPs (multiannual, annual)
- Preparation of call for proposals, publication, modification
- Project selection procedures
- Submission of applications and their evaluation
- Contracting
- Checking public procurement procedures
- Financial implementation
- Payments to beneficiaries (advance, interim, final claims and payments)
- Management verifications (document based and on-the-spot checks)
- Rules for financial instruments
- Certification
- Complaints
- Irregularities and appeals related to decisions on irregularities
- Managing recoveries
- Durability
- Annual accounts
- Audits and coordination of tasks related to audits
- Monitoring and information system
- Electronic communication and documentation
- Major projects
- Information and communication activities
- Monitoring and evaluation
Annexes to the Regulation are:
- Operational manual (Detailed Rules of Procedures)
- List of authorities (MA, IB, CA, AA)
- List of line ministries responsible for policies (by OP priorities)
- National rules of eligible costs
- List of documents to be provided by beneficiaries, to be examined during first level document based controls
- List of control aspects to be applied during document based controls
Government Regulation 272/2014. (XI.5.) can be found at: http://njt.hu/cgi_bin/njt_doc.cgi?docid=172361 (in Hungarian).