Part II – Project Generation

Introduction

 

Purpose of Part II

Approach

To assist the NIPAC / NIPAC Secretariat and the relevant Serbian authorities in ensuring that selected projects proposed for funding under IPA - including a pipeline of mature infrastructure projects for funding under IPA III (Environment and Transport) - are developed and documented under the highest standards of quality, in order to be submitted to the ultimate approval of the EC and implemented.

The approach here is to review existing strategies and master plans against OP priorities, and associated ‘long-lists’ of projects, focusing on project readiness and other selection criteria developed in parallel to the preparation of the OPs. This project will focus on those areas which involve additional elements, due to DG REGIO and other DGs’ requirements, based on the assumption that the major part of the technical inputs is well within the competence of the responsible Ministries themselves. It is not expected that this project will be able to deal in full with more than 2-3 for each Operational Programme. The documents that will be prepared will have three functions: first, to comply in full with Serbian planning requirements; second, to comply with DG Regio and other DGs’ requirements; and third, to act as a training model or best practice model for other major projects.

 

 

PPTAF focus on preparing the projects that will be financed under IPA Components III and IV.

Turning to IPA III and IV, the type of projects which can be financed follow the sme contractual form as IPA I, as set out in the PRAG. In other words, they involve either procurement (works, services and/or supplies) or grant schemes (potentially with secondary procurement by the beneficiary). In the context of IPA III, however, there is a further distinction, based on a categorisation which first originated under the Cohesion Fund, namely ‘major projects’. In the case of IPA, these are defined in Article 157 of the Implementing Regulation and are, in essence, large infrastructure projects with a budget of €10 million or more, which can be financed under the regional development component (in reality, under the transport and environment sub-components). The rest of the projects under IPA Components III and IV can be called non-major projects, and will largely comprise grant schemes and service contracts.

Due to the relatively long lead time for major projects under IPA Component III, the preparation of the necessary documentation will start early enough to ensure that project implementation could start immediately or soon after funds under IPA III become available for Serbia. Therefore, identification of potential major projects will start in parallel with drafting OPs for the environment and transport sectors. This bottom-up and project-centred approach would allow timely preparation of project documentation

 

Further information

For further information regarding Part II, please contact:
Christian Weltzien, Team Leader
Chris Cull, Procurement Expert
 
IPA Major (>10M€) Project Application Documents
Application Form for TRANSPORT
Application Form for ENVIRONMENT
Application Form for REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS