Atribuciones y deberes de los miembros de Junta Directiva 1 Del Presidente:

The Managing Authority of the operational programme is responsible for the orderly, efficient and successful use of assistance provided for the individual operational programmes (OP). The MAs delegate part of their tasks to Intermedate Bodies, all meeting pre-defined professional and efficiency criteria, selected through an appropriate evaluation procedure. Key responsibilities of the Managing Authority:

• Co-ordinating the planning of operational programmes and related documents. In this respect, setting up and operating the Operational Programme Planning Co-ordination Committee as a sub-committee of the Planning Operational Committee with the participation of ministries and experts involved;

• Ensuring that operations are selected for funding in accordance with the conditions applicable to the operational programme and comply with the applicable Community as well as national legal provisions throughout their implementation period.

• Ensuring the availability of a system for recording and storing, in a computerised form, accounting records for each operation under the operational programme, as well as the compilation of implementation data necessary for financial management, monitoring, verifications, audits and evaluation.

• Ensuring that the beneficiaries and other bodies involved in the implementation of operations maintain separate accounting system or an adequate accounting code appropriate for all transactions relating to the operation – without prejudice to national accounting rules. • Approval of calls for proposals, model assistance contracts, endorsing

financing decisions on project proposals.

• Receipt and validation of verification reports and payment requests prepared by the Intermediate Bodies.

the relevant community legislation; participating in evaluation activities concerning the operational programme.

• Setting up procedures to ensure that all documents regarding expenditure and audits required to ensure an adequate audit trail are preserved in accordance to relevant rules.

• Ensuring that the Certifying Authority receives all information necessary on the procedures and verifications carried out in relation to expenditure for the purpose of certification.

• Operating the Monitoring Committee of the operational programme; providing it with the documents necessary to allow the Committee to follow-up the quality of implementation with a view of the specific objectives of the operational programme.

• Assumig responsibility for the preparation of the annual and final implementation reports; submitting these to the European Commission upon their approval by the Monitoring Committee.

• Submitting the information necessary for the assessment of major projects to the European Commission.

• Co-ordinating the elaboration and revision of the detailed multiannual programming-implementation document (action plan) concerning the implementation of the operational programme; making proposals for the contents of this document.

• Controlling the formal and methodological compliance of the action plan(s) relevant for the implementation of the operation programme; ensuring consistence with the contents of the operational programmes; enforcing aspects of regularity and feasibility of the programmes. • Countersigning the multi-annual programming documents concerning

implementation.

• Making proposals for the revision of the operational programme.

• Monitoring the implementation of the operational programme; measuring implementation with the help of the monitoring indicators; and taking necessary measures for this.

• Supervising and evaluating the implementation of programmes in its responsibility; safeguarding regularity of the programmes; taking necessary measures for this.

• Supervising and controlling the Intermediate Bodies of the programme; managing any systemic irregularities.

• Liaison with relevant Directorate General(s) of the European Commission in charge of issues concerning the operational programmes

• Participating in information and publicity tasks in respect of the entire New Hungary Development Plan and ensuring compliance with these requirements in respect of the operational programme(s) under its responsibility.

• Managing Technical Assistance allocation connected with the operational programme’s implementation.

Activities of the Managing Authority concerning the Intermediate Bodies (further referred to as IBs) performing administrative, financial and technical tasks are as follows:

• Professionally supervising the activities of Intermediate Bodies concerning the implementation of the operational programmes.

• Conclusion of contracts with the Intermediate Bodies in its responsibility in terms of the performance of tasks; ensuring a performance based remuneration of Intermediate Bodies for their services.

• Approval of the intermediate body’s internal rules of procedure related to implementation of support.

• Controlling and evaluating the activities of the Intermediate Bodies on a regular basis.

6.1.4.1. Managing authorities of the operational programmes

All managing authorities operate as independent departments of the

National Development Agency. Centralisation of the implementation

management increases efficiency of co-ordination of the implementation of operational programmes, improves transparency, promotes exchange of experiences (further enhanced due to the integration of the procedures) and accountability (also supported by the performance-based financing and on-going evaluation of Intermediate Bodies), as well as the rationalisation of task organisation.

The managing authorities were established in compliance with the priorities of the New Hungary Development Plan. More than one operational programme may be referred to a single managing authority. This structure is presented in the following table.

Table 11. Assignment of the operational programmes to Managing Authorities

Responsible Managing Authorities Operational programme(s) of responsibility 1. NDA Department of Economic

Development Programmes Managing Authority

• Economic Development OP

2. NDA Department of Transport

Programmes Managing Authority • Transport OP

• Social Renewal OP

3. NDA Department of Human Resources Programmes Managing

Authority • Social Infrastructure OP

4. NDA Department of Environmental Programmes

Managing Authority

• Environment and Energy OP

• West Pannon Operational Programme • Central Transdanubia Operational

Programme

• South Transdanubia Operational Programme • North Hungary Operational Programme • North Great Plain Operational Programme • South Great Plain Operational Programme

5. NDA Department of Regional Development Programmes Managing Authority

• Central Hungary Operational Programme • State Reform Operational Programme

6. NDA Department of Public Reform Programmes Managing

Authority • Electronic Public Administration Operational _Programme 7. NDA Department of Co-

ordinating Managing Authority • Implementation Operational Programme