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Good governance and fighting misuse of public money in public procurement. Bucharest, 7 September 2 01 7. 15 % of EU GDP channelled trough public procurement Cohesion policy and national co-financing as % of total public investment. Public Procurement Action Plan.
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Good governance and fighting misuse of public money in public procurement Bucharest,7 September 2017 Inguna Kramiņa DG Regional and Urban Policy Unit "Competence Centre for Administrative Capacity Building; Solidarity Fund"
15 % of EU GDP channelled trough public procurement • Cohesion policy and national co-financing as % of total public investment
Public Procurement Action Plan To coordinate actions more effectively, the ESIF DGs and DG GROW, together with the EIB elaborated Public Procurement Action Plan • The 2nd revision was adopted in March 2017 • The current update of the PP Action Plan contains • 18 actions (14 + 4 follow-up actions) http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/informat/2014/action_plan_pp.pdf Focus on preventive actions! • Spread knowledge of EU PP rules at the level of all stakeholders • Reinforce administrative capacity • Better preparation of tenders and projects • Reduce error rate
Study on PP administrative capacity Overview of good practice and recommendations on public procurement to the EC and Member States Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/how/improving-investment/ public-procurement/study/
Follow up Study:on Public Procurement good practice sharing across the EU Main deliverables: • e-library of good practices; • Feasibility studies for a selected number of good practices; • Step-by-step roadmaps; • Awareness raising.
Public Procurement Guidance for Practitioners • Guidance structured around the 6 main stages of a public procurement process based on list of 25 most common errors identified in audits • Toolkit of resources addressing specific topics with concrete examples, checklist, links • Updated version of the Guidance document is in preparation! (it will take into account new PP Directives)
ARACHNE Data-mining IT tool developed by EC and offered to Managing Authorities for free (1) Strengthens Management and Control Systems: allows for a continuous monitoring of internal and external data regarding projects, beneficiaries and contracts/contractors • Public procurement is one of the key areas monitored (2) Is expected to lead to lower error rates and number of fraud cases
Integrity Pacts – pilot project • Current status: • 12 IPs signed; • 2 IPs in preparation; • 3 IPs delayed
What is an Integrity Pact? 2 key elements: • (1) Agreement between Contracting Authority (beneficiary, project owner) and bidders to abstain from corrupt practices and conduct a transparent procurement • (2) External independent Monitor – NGO – monitors that all parties comply with commitments • a collaborative tool • preventive • flexible
Key benefits of Integrity Pacts for Regional Policy • Contributes to increased efficiency and effectiveness of public investments (Cohsion policy) • Acts as preventive early warning system for irregularities • Improves the communication between contractor, local stakeholders and general public • Strengthens reputation of public body as reliable, transparent contracting authority • Increase in trust • Can lead to cost savings • Can reduce the total implementation period
Taking forward integrity policy in PP:current work strands • Single Market Strategy (SMS) • Professionalization policy • Country strategies for comprehensive reform of PP systems in selected MS • Better data: • (Reporting obligations under Art. 83 – 85) • Improve data from procurement notices (eForms) • Support collection of data below EU thresholds • Contract registers • EU database on irregularities • Promote data analytics and analysis
Europe’s regional CRI map: Corruption Risk Index averages across the EU/EEA 2009-2014 TED data
Regio-E1-administrative-capacity@ec.europa.eu Inguna.Kramina@ec.europa.eu Public procurementon InfoRegio "Improving investment" http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/how/improving-investment/public-procurement/ Integrity Pacts project: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/how/improving-investment/integrity-pacts/