EU Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund Management Information System

1. EU Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund Management Information System Normunds Eglītis Deputy Director of EU Funds Monitoring Department Managing Authority 26.03.2009. Liepaja, Latvia

2. Content of the Presentation • MIS development schedule; • MIS technical information; • MIS functionality; • MIS challenges.

3. MIS development schedule • Agreement on developing the MIS signed on 11/05/2007 • Detailed Requirement specification was elaborated until 22/08/2007 • System was implemented in production on 01/02/2008 • MIS connection mechanism with Responsible and Cooperation bodies' information systems was elaborated until 14/07/2008 3

4. MIS technical information 4

5. MIS functionality • Central system for monitoring EU funds and project financial progress; • One system for 2004-2006 / 2007-2013 SF & CF data • Manual data input and electronic data transfer from local information systems; • Electronic data transfer from Budget information system; • Electronic data transfer to EC information system. 5

6. MIS functionality • Double-financing check with Agriculture and Fisheries information system; • Reports; • Data analysis tool; • Link with EU funds activity searcher on www.esfondi.lv [in development]. 6

7. MIS functionality SRS = State Revenue Service CPCB = Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau 7

8. MIS challenges (1) • Legal documents that influence system; • Changing system (SFC) versions during development phase; • One system for SF and CF 2004-2006 and 2007-2013, data migration; • IMB’s local information systems, connection; • Time; 8

9. MIS challenges (2) • MIS as only information source; • MIS and paper versions of documents; • Data quality; • MIS users, satisfaction. 9

10. MIS functionality in detail • Project level checks in MIS • Summary of project level checks with data analysis tool 10