Ref. Ares(2014)3832871 - 18/11/2014
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICY
Administrative Capacity Building and South-East Europe
Romania
Brussels
REGIO E2/LT/ic
Dear Ms Moga,
Subject: Operational
programme
'Increasing the Economic Competitiveness',
CCI no. 2007RO161PO002, Project "IT system for Romanian Adoption
Office", code SMIS 48605
Ref.:
Commission letter ARES(2014) 3372339 of 13 October 2014
Managing authority letter no 16747 of 29 October 2014
In the previous correspondence, the managing authority confirmed that the project "Sistem
Informatic pentru Oficiul Roman de Adoptii", code SMIS 48065, having as current
beneficiary the Romanian National Authority for the Rights of the Child and Adoption, was
selected for EU funding under the priority axis 3 of the programme and is currently in the
implementation phase.
Considering the high sensitivity of the processes supported by this IT system, we
recommend the Managing Authority to give, in the monitoring process, high consideration to
the following issues:
• The IT system in question should support processes that are fully compliant with the
UN Convention on the rights of the child (in particular with Article 21 on the Rights
of the Child) and that the UN Guidelines for the alternative care of children are
adhered to prior to any decisions being taken on adoption;
• The IT system should fully ensure the right of privacy of the children, as provided by
Article 16(1) of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
• The IT system should have adequate safeguards (e.g. user access rights, protection of
personal data) that will allow preventing any unlawful use of information (e.g. for
child trafficking purposes);
• The adequacy of the project budget and the legality and regularity of the public
procurement process.
Yours sincerely,
Agnes Lindemans
Ms Adina Stefania Moga
Director-General
Ministerul Fondurilor Europene
Blv Ion Mihalache nr 13-15, Sector 1
Bucureşti, România
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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