Cabinet Regulation No. 683 of 2018 on Management of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism for the Period 2014-2021

The Regulation prescribes the procedures by which a programme agreement shall be harmonised and entered into and amendments to the programme shall be made; the procedures for the selection of project applications and assessment of pre-defined projects, the content of the rules for the selection of project applications, the content of the rules for the assessment of the pre-defined projects, the content of the project contract, the procedures for entering into it and making amendments thereto, the content of the contract concluded between the project promoter and the project partner and the procedures for its harmonisation; the procedures for publishing the information regarding programmes, projects, and pre-defined projects and ensuring compliance with the requirements for publicity and visual identity of Financial Mechanisms; the procedures for the implementation of the technical assistance for the Financial Mechanisms and the procedures for the introduction of the fund for bilateral relations established in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding referred to in Section 1, Clause 18 of the Law on the Management of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism for the Period 2014-2021; the procedures for planning funds in the State budget for the implementation of the programmes, projects, and pre-defined projects co-financed by the Financial Mechanisms, for making payments, and preparing reports; the cases and procedures by which the Focal Point shall temporarily suspend inclusion of the expenditures incurred in the programme, programme activity, project, and pre-defined project in the interim financial report of the programme or final programme report; the procedures for ensuring the monitoring and control of Financial Mechanisms; the procedures for reporting irregularities detected in the management of Financial Mechanisms and also for writing-off, withholding, or recovery of expenditures made incorrectly, and for applying the proportional financial correction; the procedures and amount in which the Programme Operator, the agency, and the Procurement Monitoring Bureau shall perform ex-ante control of the procurement documentation and the procurement procedure of the project and pre-defined project; and the procedures for the provision and examination of the information regarding the application of value added tax within the framework of the programmes, projects, and pre-defined projects, and taking the decision to include the value added tax in the eligible costs.