Implementation Progress Programme BG 14 Norwegian Financial Mechanism Cooperation Committee, Sofia, June 2015

Implementation of Programme Agreement BG14  PO envisage to initiate changes to Annex I: -programme indicators; - budget reallocations between Outcomes in order to respond to the predefined budgets and their indicators

Financial implementation Payments to the PPs till now : Euro (incl. Advance payments) Total Programme Budget: Euro

Audits under Programme BG14 In the reported period: - Report of Audit Authority (Directorate “Audit of the EU Funds) received and comments of PO submitted - Audit by OFM on MCS conducted – audit report for preliminary opinion provided on 11 th June 2015, comments on findings submitted on 18 th June 2015

Funds for bilateral relations at programme level  PO conducted selection procedure on 4 initiatives in the framework of the open calls under BG14 started, according to the Rules and for the administration of a Fund for bilateral relations for both Programmes, approved by the Financial Mechanism Office.  4 Agreements for implementation has been signed with the Project Promoters; - BF initiative 1: “Supporting the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding vulnerable groups”, Bulgarian Government Agent and CoE – Partner; - BF initiative 2: “Enhancing the Effectiveness of the University Education on the ECHR”, Bulgarian Government Agent; The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Council of Europe –Partners ; - BF initiative 3: “Piloting HELP distance learning course on Anti-discrimination” National Institute of Justice and CoE as Partner - BF initiative 4: Capacity Building of Project Promoters and Donor Project Partners to Support the Continued Implementation and the Planning of Future Norway Grants Projects, NIJ, SJC and Government Agent, The Norwegian Courts Administration- Partner

BF-Financial implementation BF initiativesPartner/sBudget (Euro) BF initiative 1: “Supporting the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding vulnerable groups”, Bulgarian Government Agent CoE BF initiative 2: “Enhancing the Effectiveness of the University Education on the ECHR”, Bulgarian Government Agent Norwegian Centre for Human Rights,CoE BF initiative 3: “Piloting HELP distance learning course on Anti-discrimination”, National Institute of Justice CoE BF initiative 4: Capacity Building of Project Promoters and Donor Project Partners to Support the Continued Implementation and the Planning of Future Norway Grants Projects, NIJ, SJC and Government Agent, -Partner The Norwegian Courts Administrati on Total: Bilateral fund (total) =

Status of the pre-defined projects -PdP 1, 2 and 3 under implementation -PdP 4 in final stage of implementation – extension until 31 July 2015; extension of the project with additional funds by savings of the Programmes forthcoming

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