England Estonia Hungary Hungary Macedonia Poland Romania Name of document Decision Support Tool (DST) 2009 Code on Good Practice for Contracting Out Public Services Act CLXXXI of 2007 on Transparency of Financial Support Provided from Public Funds Law CXCV of 2011 on fiscal administration Code of Good Practices in Financial Support of Associations and Foundations (2007) Law on Public Benefit and Volunteer Work(2003) Law no. 350/2005 on the conditions of non-refundable financing from public funds assigned for general interest non-profit activities force A web-based guidance tool (non-binding) Non-binding Binding Binding Non-binding Binding Binding Types of funding mechanisms and models it covers Funding models available to the public authorities (grant, grant-in-aid or procurement) Contracting Generally all funding models available to the authorities (grants, subsidies, contracting) Generally all funding models available to the authorities (grants, subsidies, contracting) Grants Contracting Grants Scope and purpose To provide practical support for decisions about the design of appropriate funding models; therefore it should be used before making the The objective of the Code is to ensure that the public authorities as transferor and the CSOs as service providers base their provision of the service on the same principles in order to make sure The Law applies to the financial supports provided with a special decision from the subsectors of the fiscal administration;EU sources;other programs financed on the basis of The overall purpose of the Law is to ensure the operational conditions of a transparent fiscal administration in order to fully implement the public tasks. The Law has a separate The Code prescribes the general procedure for allocating funds to associations and foundations from the Budget by state administration bodies, the The Law regulates 1) the public benefit work of non-governmental organizations in the area of public tasks and cooperation of public administration authorities with The Law applies to any contract assigning financial allowance from the state and, local budgets, external financial aid, or external loans contracted or guaranteed by
decision on which funding channel to use and before starting the process. that goals important to the society are achieved. international agreements. It applies to both cash and in-kind contributions, financial support provided through tender procedure or without tender procedure. If the conditions of the state financing is prescribed by law and the authority cannot decide on the financing, then this Law does not apply. chapter on budgetary support, which applies to all cash contributions provided from the subsectors of the central fiscal administration without consideration. principles and the basic criteria. non-governmental organizations; 2) acquiring a public benefit status by organizations, and operation of PBOs; 3) supervision to be exercised over public benefit work; 4) establishing and operation of Council of Public Benefit Work the state or by the local public administration bodies, as well as internal loans contracted by the local public administration bodies to natural or legal persons – associations or foundations set up according to the law, or religious denominations, admitted by the law.
needed in specific situation. It covers the principles in designing financial mechanism, and how to apply them, program objectives, how to choose a funding channels, how to choose contract scale, measures to ensure CSOs are not disadvantaged, duration of award, full cost recovery, EU state aid etc. It also provides links to useful documents and case studies. organizing a request for tender/selecting the service provider through and execution of the service in cooperation with a single provider); 5) conclusion of agreement and the conditions that needs to be agreed; 6) contract administration and supervision; 7) responsibility of the parties. procedure in case conflict of interest arises; 5) the content of the conflict of interest statement submitted with the application. obligation of the beneficiary; 5) rules on reclaiming the budgetary support; 6) supervision of the budgetary support. results, conflict of interest prevention, provisions regarding the agreement with the CSOs, information to be published on the internet, general procedures for monitoring, coordination and assessment. evaluating the offers; the obligation of both parties (e.g., the authority shall concurrently be obliged to provide financing for the completion of the task); the term of the contracting; the principles of monitoring and evaluating the implementation; the reporting rules, the conditions of cancelling the open bid tender; the exemptions for the open bid tender. the annual report of the authorities on the concluded contracts and their result in the fiscal year; 5) the deadline for the project proposal submission; 6) the eligibility criteria; 7) the conclusion, execution and termination of the contract