Managing Authority
The Member States appointed the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures – DiCoTer (General Direction responsible for spatial co-ordination) as Managing Authority.
The Managing Authority will be represented by:
General Direction Responsible for Spatial
Co-ordination (DiCoTer) – Div. IV
Ministry of Infrastructures
Via Nomentana 2
I-00161 Roma
The Managing Authority fulfils the functions according to Art 9 (n) and 34 of Council Regulation (EC) n° 1260/1999 and it works under the guidance of the Member States represented in the Monitoring Committee (programme level and strategic aspects) and the Steering Committee (project level and operational aspects).
The main tasks of the Managing Authority are in particular:
- setting up a system to gather reliable financial and statistical information on implementation for the monitoring indicators and evaluation and for forwarding the data in accordance with the arrangements agreed between the Member States using where possible computer systems permitting the exchange of data with the Commission;
- adjusting and implementing the Programme Complement;
- drawing up and (after approval of the Monitoring Committee) submitting the annual implementation report to the Commission;
- organising, in co-operation with the Commission and Member States, the mid-term evaluation;
- ensuring that those bodies taking part in the management and implementation of the assistance maintain either a separate accounting system or an adequate accounting code for all transactions relating to the assistance;
- ensuring the correctness of operations financed under the assistance particularly by implementing internal controls in keeping with the principles of sound financial management and acting in response to any observations or requests for corrective measures adopted;
- ensuring compliance with Community policies;
- ensuring compliance with the obligations concerning information and publicity;
- signing contracts for ERDF financing with the ERDF lead partners as final beneficiaries.
The operational management and the day-to-day-work of the Managing Authority is carried out by the Joint Technical Secretariat in Dresden.
A more detailed description of the tasks of the Managing Authority (MA) can be found in the Programme Complement.
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