The Programme operator of the Home Affairs Programme, funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, announces a procedure for the pre-defined project „Increasing the effectiveness of SANS for combating crime including money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate criminality”.
Eligible project promoter under the procedure is the State Agency for National Security.
The funding allocated to this procedure is up to BGN 1 841 397.
The overall objective is supporting the introduction and implementation of modern, adequate mechanisms to combat economic crimes. The project also aims at developing SANS's capabilities to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, to increasing the monitoring capabilities for different financial sectors under the responsibility of financial intelligence unit by conducting trainings and study visits and developing a risk-based oversight methodology and open source intelligence training for SANS employees.
The deadline for application is June 10, 2019 until 5.30 PM.
The Application Guidelines and the related documents (in Bulgarian and English) are published in UMIS 2020 at the following address:
https://eumis2020.government.bg/en/s/Procedure/Info/dbee7ba1-fed3-4155-a17c-1eed31d770ce
Notice!
The procedure for the pre-defined project „Increasing the effectiveness of SANS for combating crime including money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate criminality” was amended on 07.06.2019.
The amendments are as follows:
- One new indicator was added: Number of detected cases of financial crimes, money laundering and financing of terrorism – baseline value – 677, target value - 950.
- Some minor technical corrections were applied in the English version of the draft supporting documents to the application form.
The timetable is amended as follows:
The Deadline for submission of project proposals: 08.07.2019
Beginning of the assessment process: 09.07.2019
End of the assessment process:09.09.2019
Signing of the contracts 30.09.2019
Notice!
The procedure for the pre-defined project “Increasing the effectiveness of SANS for combating crime including money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate criminality” was amended on 08.07.2019.
The timetable is amended as follows:
Deadline for submission of project proposals: 22.07.2019
Beginning of the assessment process: 23.07.2019
End of the assessment process: 23.09.2019
Signing of the contracts: 11.10.2019
Notice!
The procedure for the pre-defined “Increasing the effectiveness of SANS for combating crime including money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate criminally” was amended on 12.07.2019 г.
The target value of indicator “Number of competent insitutions covered by encrypted connection of Output 2.12” is reduced from “minimum” 8 to “minimum 2”.
Notice!
The procedure for the pre-defined project “Increasing the effectiveness of SANS for combating crime including money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate criminally” was amended on 19.07.2019 г.
The amendments are as follows:
The deadline for submission of project proposal: 05.08.2019
The timetable is amended as follows:
Beginning of the assessments process – 06.08.2019
End of the assessments process – 07.10.2019
Signing of the contract/s – 04.11.2019