In this respect, our department fullfils the following duties and responsibilities:
- Carrying out the functions of the Programme Authority, responsible for the management of the funds provided by the European Union in the field of transport infrastructure,
- Preparing the annual or multi-annual Transport Operational Programmes,
- Having prepared the necessary documents concerning the quality monitoring of the Operational Programme implementation; thus guiding the Sectoral Monitoring Committee works,
- Preparing the Annual Sectoral and Final Performance Reports and submitting them to the related institutions,
- Selecting the projects concerning investments and activities to be supported in the framework of the Transport Operational Programme,
- Organizing the tenders concerning investments and activities supported in the framework of the Transport Operational Programme in accordance with the European Union acquis, international agreements and other related legislation,
- Concluding the contracts concerning investments and activities supported in the framework of the Transport Operational Programme in accordance with the European Union acquis, international agreements and other related legislation; realising the implementations, controls and monitoring,
- Making the payments concerning projects supported in the context of the Transport Operational Programme and keeping their accounts,
- Assuring the selection of operations to be financed, as well as their approval in accordance with the criteria and methods applicable to programmes and providing their conformance to the Community legislation and national legislation,
- Making rules concerning the maintenance of all the documents for providing an appropriate audit trail,
- Organizing the tender and grant procedures, the contracts concluded subsequently, the payments to be made to final beneficiaries and the reimbursements of the payments made when necessary,
- Providing a separate accounting system or a separate accounting code for all the units that are integrated in the implementation of the Operations that are carried out,
- Providing all kinds of necessary information concerning the National Fund and National Authorising Officer, expenditure procedures and verifications,
- Establishing a reporting and information system and ensuring its sustainability and relevance,
- Making verifications in order to ensure the conformity of the declared expenditures to the related rules; in order to assure the delivery of products and services in accordance with the approval decision and in order to check on the conformity of the payment requests made by the final beneficiaries,
- Reporting irregularities,
- Assuring conformity to promotion and visibility requirements
- Ensuring that the accreditation criteria are met, following the conferral of management made by the Commission,
- Preparing the activity reports of the units.