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Subject: EPM 'Fact finding missions' Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan
Q1-2024 FACT FINDING MISSION ON PP/ SA - Ares(2024)2375942
Tähelepanu!
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mitte avada, kui kiri on saabunud tundmatult aadressilt!
Your Excellency,
Please find enclosed a letter sent by Ms Bernadette FREDERICK, ECFIN R
Director - Resources and Performance management (Directorate-General for
Economic and Financial Affairs - European Commission).
Best regards,
Evangelos SELLAS
Secretary to the Unit
Unit R4: Control, Planning and Evaluation.
European Commission
Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) CHAR
10/005
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-92817
Email:
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Ref. Ares(2024)2375942 - 01/04/2024
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
Resources and performance management
Control and evaluation
Brussels, 27 March 2024
ECFIN.R.4/GG/ (2024)2653427
Subject: EPM 'Fact finding missions'
Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan
Ref.: Engagement No. EE-Q1-2024 FACT FINDING MISSION ON PP/ SA (to
be used in all correspondence)
Your Excellency,
On 20/02/2024 and 21/02/2024, the auditors of Directorate-General for Economic and
Financial Affairs (hereinafter: “ECFIN”) carried out a fact-finding mission in relation to
the Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan (hereinafter: “RRP”). The legal basis for the
engagement is laid down in the Financial Regulation, namely in its Articles 74(6) and
129(1) and in the Financing Agreement under Articles 11(4) and 12(1).
The objective of this remote mission was to gain assurance that the Estonian authorities
are regularly and effectively verifying compliance with the applicable public procurement
(hereinafter: “PP”) and state aid (hereinafter: “SA”) rules for measures covered by the
Council Implementing Decision. The work included checks on the effectiveness of the
entities’ work done on checking the implementing bodies compliance with state aid and
public procurement rules.
On the basis of its examination, the Commission services have the following observations:
• Audit Authority
- Integrate PP and SA checks in future audits.
- Integrate PP and SA audit reports in the summary of audit
accompanying future payment requests
• Coordinating Body: SSSC
No recommendations for SA and PP verification procedure
• Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications: KMK
- Develop and use a specific template for the PP checklist
• Information System Authority ISA
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
- Develop and use a specific template for the PP checklist
• Environmental Investment Centre: KIK
No recommendations for SA verification procedure
• Agricultural Registers and Information Board: PRIA
No recommendations for SA verification procedure
Based on the evidence collected and assessed, and to the best of their knowledge, the
ECFIN auditors consider that, for the selected measures, the risk of non-respect by Estonia
to its obligation to regularly check that State aid and public procurement rules are complied
with in the context of 2023 payment is low.
This assessment is without prejudice to any conclusions that the Commission could draw
from any possible further on-the-spot audit work.
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
Bernadette FREDERICK
c.c.:
Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Mark Schelfhout, Head of Unit, ECFIN R.4
Jakob Wegener Friis, Director ECFIN E
Joern Griesse, Head of Unit, ECFIN E.2
Declan Costello, Deputy Director General, ECFIN E, F,G
James Hinton, Head of Unit, ECFIN.A.2
Recovery and Resilience Task Force
Maria Teresa Fabregas Fernandez, Director, SG.RECOVER.B
Luca Rossi, Head of Unit, SG.RECOVER.B2
Ave Schank-Lukas, SG.RECOVER.B2 – Tallinn
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Electronically signed on 27/03/2024 17:40 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121