Management verification in Interreg

Procedures Irregularities Management verifications Public procurement

Interact organises this recurring workshop with our colleagues from the Managing Authority INTERREG 2021-2027 programmes based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The network is composed of the following Interreg programs: INTERREG VI-A "Greece-Bulgaria", "Greece-Italy", and "Greece-Cyprus" CBC programmes, INTERREG IPA "Greece-Albania" and "Greece-North Macedonia". The network has a problem-solving approach, primarily focusing on facilitating information exchange, sharing experiences, best practices and lessons learned from management verifications while ensuring the transfer of fundamental knowledge to the programmes' controllers - the "train the trainer" part.  

The workshop aims to harmonise the different levels of knowledge on management verifications. We will provide a discussion forum to update the methodology for risk-based management verifications developed by the managing authority, which applies to the entire programme, which was approved in 2024. The workshop will also provide a forum for exchanging practices, enhancing consistency, and addressing technical aspects relevant to management verification procedures and processes. We will also evaluate the control during the current period, including cases from the activity of control, irregularities, and financial corrections that could be avoided.

The target group of the workshop is the staff of the different authorities of the Interreg programmes – MAs, AAs, JSs, NAs and Controllers.