Our ref. 04.02.2025 No 10-2/613-1
Mr. Franck Sébert
European Commission,
Directorate-General for Regional
and Urban Policy (REGIO)
Extension of the deadline of the
assurance package
Dear Mr. Franck Sébert
We would ask for the extension of the deadline for the submission of the documents in the
assurance package to be presented for the accounting year from July 1st, 2023, to June 30th,
2024, along with the closure of the Programme. Some activities in the audits of operations on
behalf of closure are still being finalized. The finalization of these activities would allow us
to provide more qualitative assurance documents considering an extended deadline for their
submission.
Article 63(7) of the Financial Regulation (Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 2024/2509) states
that accounts on expenditure incurred during the reference period and the annual summary of
the final audit reports and controls carried out need to be provided to the Commission by 15th
of February of the following year. The deadline of 15th of February may exceptionally be
extended by the Commission to 1st of March, upon communication by the Member State
concerned.
Please let us know if the extension of the deadline of all the documents to be presented in the
assurance package until 1st of March 2025 is possible for the operational programme 2014-
2020 ENI CBC Joint Operational Programme Estonia-Russia (CCI No:
2014TC16M5CB004).
Yours sincerely,
(signed digitally)
Ms. Anu Alber
Head of the Financial Control Department
Head of the Audit Authority
Suur-Ameerika 1 / 10122 Tallinn / Estonia / +372 611 3558 /
[email protected]
www.rahandusministeerium.ee / Reg. code: 70000272
Copy to:
Ms. Ilse van den Abeele
European Commission, Joint Audit Directorate for Cohesion (REGIO.EMPL.DAC) Audit
Unit II (DAC2)
Mr. Moray Gilland
European Commission, European Territorial Cooperation, Macro-regions, Interreg and
Programme Implementation I (REGIO.D)
Macro-regions, Transnational/Interregional/External Cooperation, Enlargement
(REGIO.D.1)
Mart Pechter +372 611 3152
[email protected]
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