Rona Michie was an invited speaker at a meeting of the Latvian Structural Funds Monitoring Committee in Riga on 24 November 2010, to present a paper on 'State aids and Cohesion Policy: Managing Compliance'.
Based on an EPRC research paper by Fiona Wishlade and Rona Michie under the auspices of the IQ-Net research programme, the presentation focused on the practical issues facing Structural Funds Managing Authorities when trying to ensure compliance with EU State aid rules, and the arrangements which Managing Authorities have put in place to reduce risk and manage compliance in different Member States.
The Meeting was organised by the Latvian Ministry of Finance, the Managing Authority for ERDF, ESF and the Cohesion Fund. The research on which the presentation is based is "Pandora's Box and the Delphic Oracle: EU Cohesion Policy and State Aids Compliance", IQ-Net Thematic Paper 24(2), by Fiona Wishlade and Rona Michie, EPRC, 2009.