1 Information by the Managing Authority on EU funds evaluation Monitoring Committee meeting October 15, 2009

2 Agenda 1.Amendments to the Evaluation Plan  Optimisation of the evaluation process  Amendments to the list of evaluations 2.Evaluations (Managing Authority) taking place in Evaluations planned by Managing Authority in Evaluations planned by other institutions in Implementation status of recommendations

1. Amendments to the Evaluation Plan I Optimisation of the evaluation process It is specified that evaluation process in the context of the EU funds includes both MA organized evaluations and sector specific evaluations organized by other institutions (involved in the EU funds implementation) in the framework of the OP activities, which are financed from the Technical assistance resources ( Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers No.918). Organization of a sector specific evaluation should be agreed upon in MA beforehand. The deadline in which institutions submit information about the planned evaluations, have been deleted. 3

1. Amendments to the Evaluation Plan II Amendments to the list of evaluations Sector specific evaluations previously planned by other institutions involved in the EU funds implementation have been removed from the list of evaluations in accordance with the amendments (of December 18, 2007) to the regulation No.918 of the Cabinet of Ministers. Additional evaluation carried out in 2009 has been included in the list of evaluations The list of evaluations has been updated with new themes of the evaluations planned in Midterm evaluation of the effectiveness of implementing NSRF priorities, measures and activities has been identified to be carried out in

2. MA evaluations in 2009 Evaluation of the income to the state budget form the EU funds implemented projects Objective: To evaluate and analyse the impact of the implemented EU funds projects to the national economy and budget. 5

3. Evaluations planned by MA in 2010 I 3 evaluations of results and impact of the EU funded investments in the fields of education, active labour, support to businesses during the period of Objective: To evaluate and analyse results and impact of EU funded investments in the fields of education, active labour, support to businesses during the period of in order to streamline further investments in the area. 6

3. Evaluations planned by MA in 2010 II Midterm evaluation of the effectiveness of implementing NSRF priorities, measures and activities Objective: To evaluate and analyse the effectiveness of implementing NSRF priorities, measures and activities in the middle of the programming period 2007 –

4. Evaluations planned by other institutions in 2010 Ministry of the Environment in collaboration with Ministry of Finance Environmental Impact evaluation of the EU funds programming documents Ministry of Regional Development and Local Government Evaluation of impact of the EU funds on regional development in Latvia 8

5. Recommendation implementation progress I 9 Currently there are 90 recommendations, 30 of which are carried over from the 2004 – 2006 programming period.

5. Recommendation implementation progress II Examples of recommendation implementation I Recommendation – to analyse opportunities to enforce harmonization of the reports electronically before the official submission of the reports. Accomplished: Analysis of the contracts signed by responsible and co-operation institutions has been performed. In line with that information for the discussion about meaningless requirements will be provided. Methodology project on associated issues has been prepared. Amendments to the regulation No.483 of the Cabinet of Ministers have been prepared. 10

5. Recommendation implementation progress III Examples of recommendation implementation II Recommendation – In order to raise interest of businessmen in the EU structural funds projects the support intensity of the entrepreneurial projects needs to be increased. Accomplished: The Ministry of Economics is reviewing its activities of the EU funds and the respective rules of Cabinet of Ministers, where it evaluates possibility to increase the support intensity per activity. Such evaluation has tauched, for instance, the activity „Support to investments in the development of micro and small enterprises operating in the specially assisted areas”. 11

5. Recommendation implementation progress IV Example of recommendation implementation III Recommendation – Taken into account the rough situation with the accessibility of financing and co-financing for the implementation of the EU funds projects, an opportunity to hold negotiations with international financial institutions about assignation of credit line to commercial banks for financing the EU funds projects needs to be considered. Accomplished: The process of bank’s due diligence occurs in the framework of the funded risk sharing in collaboration with EIB. BaltCap Management Latvia has been selected and confirmed in July by the Council of the EIF in the framework of the risk capital. Technology Transfer: Imprimatur Capital Baltics has been selected and confirmed in September by the Council of the EIF in the framework of the preparation and start-up capital instrument. 12

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