Meeting of the Monitoring Committee for the Border, Midland & Western Regional Operational Programme

The two Regional Assemblies as Managing Authorities for the ERDF co funded Operational Programmes in Ireland held a joint virtual programme monitoring committee on the 15th September to review progress from 2019.

 

Good Progress was reported across both Operational Programmes.

 

For all priorities under the BMW ROP, a total of €247,659m in public eligible expenditure selected has been reported with €210,128m in public expenditure paid by the body responsible for making payments to beneficiaries reported.

The Managing Authority declared eligible expenditure for the period up to the 31/12/2018 in the first half of 2019 in advance of the June 2019 financial milestones deadline.  As a result, the total amount of eligible expenditure entered into the accounting system of the certifying authority and certified by the authority across all priorities for the period 01/01/14 to 31/12/2018 as of 28th June 2019 was €81,930,283m.  By the end of 2019, the total amount of eligible expenditure entered into the accounting system of the certifying authority and certified by the authority across all priorities for the period 01/01/14 to 31/12/2019 was €90,643,530m

Good progress has been made in the implementation of all the Investment Priorities included in the BMW Regional Operational Programme.  The Operational Programme is being delivered in an effective and planned manner and is achieving impressive results. It is achieving its targets, the selection rate is high, physical outputs are high and the expenditure reported by IBs is also high.