Romania counsel

EU Funds & Public Procurement Investigations - Romania

We advise beneficiaries, companies, boards, investors and project promoters on EU-funded projects when compliance, audit findings, financial corrections or fraud allegations are at stake. These matters sit at the point where funding-contract obligations, procurement rules, administrative control and criminal-law exposure overlap.

Our job is concrete: establish what actually happened on the project, measure the legal and financial exposure that follows, and build a response the client can defend before an authority or a court.

Mandates typically arise from managing-authority reviews, audit-authority findings, Romanian Court of Accounts controls, whistleblower allegations, internal audits, acquisition due diligence, enforcement inquiries, or concern that implementation has departed from the funding, procurement or anti-fraud rules.

EU-funded project reviews

We reconstruct how a project was designed, approved, procured, implemented and reported, then test that record against the funding contract.

Public procurement compliance

We review procurement planning, tender files, award decisions, contract performance, amendments, conflicts and financial-correction exposure.

Financial corrections and audit findings

We assess audit findings, irregularity notes and financial-correction decisions, and help prepare the legal and strategic response.

Authority interaction

We support submissions and responses to managing authorities, intermediate bodies, audit authorities and other control bodies.

Implementation irregularities

We examine deviations from budgets, timelines, deliverables, eligibility assumptions, sustainability obligations and project documentation.

EPPO and anti-fraud exposure

We advise where project or procurement facts may create exposure before EPPO, OLAF, Romanian prosecutors or parallel administrative proceedings.

Key areas of work

  • Review of funding applications, financing agreements, eligibility conditions and project files.
  • Reconstruction of implementation timelines, reporting flows and key project decisions.
  • Eligibility, transparency, equal-treatment and conflict-of-interest analysis.
  • Assessment and quantification of financial-correction exposure under OUG 66/2011 and EU rules.
  • Responses to requests for information, clarifications and control measures.
  • Internal-investigation strategy where administrative findings overlap with criminal risk.
  • Coordination of legal, financial, technical and forensic input into a single position.

FAQ

When do EU-funded projects become investigation-sensitive?

They become investigation-sensitive when audit findings, financial corrections, procurement concerns, whistleblower allegations or implementation irregularities may create legal, financial, administrative or criminal-law exposure.

What authorities may be involved?

Depending on the matter, exposure may involve managing authorities, intermediate bodies, audit authorities, the Romanian Court of Accounts, contracting authorities, EPPO, OLAF or national prosecutors.

Related Insights

For related analysis, see the EU Anti-Corruption Directive Romania Hub, The EU Anti-Corruption Directive and the Romanian Criminal Framework and The failure-to-supervise basis.

Related Core Expertise

For the full practice description, see EU Funds, Public Procurement & Financial Corrections. For overlapping matters, see Internal Investigations Romania and White-Collar Defence Romania.