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Czech Republic

National Contact Points

Lukes Pavel
Ministry for Regional Development
Department of Territorial
Inter-Relations
Staromestske nam. 6
NA PRIKOPE 3-5
11015  Prague
Czech Republic

Phone: + 420234154415
Fax: + 420234154007
E-mail: pavel.lukes@mmr.cz

Palicka Vaclav
City of Ostrava
Prokesovo nam. 8
Ostrava 72930
Czech Republic

Phone: + 420599443382
Fax: + 420599442040
E-mail: vpalicka@ostrava.cz

Osvald Petr
City of Pilsen
Namesti Republiky 1
Plzen 30632
Czech Republic

Phone: +420378032075
E-mail: osvald@plzen.eu

Matouskova Kamila
Ministry for Regional Development
Staromestske nam. 6
Prague 11015
Czech Republic

Phone: + 420234154168
Fax: + 420731628235
E-mail: kamila.matouskova@mmr.cz

First Level Control Requirement

The Czech Republic has opted for a centralised control system.

The responsible body is the Centre for Regional Development (hereinafter referred to as “CRD CR”) whose address is the following :

Centre for Regional Development of the Czech Republic (CRD CR)
Vinohradská 46, 120 00 Praha 2

Contact persons:

Katerina Langerová (financial Manager)
Phone: +420 221 580 227
Fax: +420 221 580 284
E-mail: langerova@crr.cz

Marek Bousek (Project Manager)
Phone: +420 221 580 224
Fax: +420 221 580 284
E-mail : bousek@crr.cz

This body has 7 regional offices in all NUTS (The nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) was created by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat) in order to create a single and coherent ...) II regions.

1. Control of projects

The first level control will be performed by the regional offices of the CRD CR. Project Partners will be controlled by the regional office from the region in which they are located.

Contact details of the 7 regional offices are the following:

Pobocka pro NUTS II Strední Cechy and Praha
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Petr Barák
Projektový manažer: Ing. Kaňová Kamila
nám. Míru 9 (Národní dum), 120 53 Praha 2
E-mail: barak@crr.cz, kanova@crr.cz

Pobocka pro NUTS II Jihozápad
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Nadežda Burešová
Projektový manažer: Ing. Bártíková Pavla
Karlova 108, 397 01 Písek
E-mail: buresova@crr.cz, bartikova@crr.cz

Pobocka pro NUTS II Severovýchod
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Leoš Macura
Projektový manažer: Ing. Petra Marková
U Koruny 73, 500 02 Hradec Králové
E-mail: macura@crr.cz, markova@crr.cz

Pobocka pro NUTS II Severozápad
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Jindrich Puchinger
Projektový manažer: Ing. Vobrová Věra
Školní 1183/10, 430 01 Chomutov
E-mail: puchinger@crr.cz, vobrova@crr.cz

Pobocka pro NUTS II Jihovýchod
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Tatiana Mifkova
Projektový manažer: Vích Šimon
Dvorákova 44/14, 602 00 Brno
E-mail: mifkova@crr.cz, Vich@crr.cz

Pobocka pro NUTS II Strední Morava
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Ivana Šupová
Finanční manažer:  Ing. Pudová Pavla
Jeremenkova 40B, 772 00 Olomouc
E-mail: supova@crr.cz, pudova@crr.cz

Pobocka pro NUTS II Moravskoslezsko
Vedoucí pobočky: Ing. Lumír Ondrejek
Finanční manažer: Ing. Honěk Miroslav
28. ríjna 165, 709 00 Ostrava
E-mail: ondrejek@crr.cz, honek@crr.cz

The above-mentioned bodies will perform the first level control free of charge for Czech project partners.

2. Control of subprojects of mini-programmes:

Certification of expenditures incurred by participants in sub-projects (projects developed via calls for proposals in regions participating in mini-programmes. Mini-programmes involve a limited number of partners developing a joint ...) is delegated to an independent auditor selected by the relevant regional project partner (All project partners other than the Lead Partner) and approved in advance by the Controller. Audit costs (for certification of sub-projects) are reported within the relevant regional project partner's budget - the chapter “External expertise and services”. The original “Control Confirmation” of the relevant sub-project issued by the independent auditor shall be delivered to the relevant regional partner with a copy to the relevant leading sub-project partner. The certified sub-project expenditures shall be included in the relevant regional partner's report (accompanied by “Control Confirmation”) and checked by such regional partner's Controller.

3. On-the-spot checks:

In order to comply with the obligation to carry out on-the-spot checks according to Regulation (EC) No. 1828/2006 Article 13 (2) amended by Regulation (EC) No. 846/2009, the Centre for Regional Development, being a controller in several projects, applies a risk based sampling method to select project partners for an on-the-spot check. In addition, Czech Lead Partners will be checked on-the-spot at least once.

Guidance documents

  • The Eligibility Handbook is available for download from this web page: 
  • The necessary guidelines for Czech partners in relation to first level control and FLC annexes can be downloaded from the CRD CR's web page:

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