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About CFCU

The CFCU was established by the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the EU Commission and the Turkish Government on 14th February 2002. In this memorandum, the CFCU was designated with the sole responsibility over the all budgeting, tendering, contracting, payments accounting and financial reporting aspects of the procurement of the Services, Supplies, Works and Grants in the context of the EU funded programmes in Türkiye.

The management of financial aid, which was transferred to Türkiye in the form of financial protocols, then loans and grants on a project basis, was carried out directly by the EU Commission through a “centralized” system in the first years. Within the process, amendments were made in the financial aid mechanism in line with the requirements of the enlargement policy; and a “decentralized” system was adopted in our country. As one of the most important actors of decentralized structuring, our Unit was accredited by the EU Commission in the entire field of its duties as of 2004. With this feature, the CFCU took its place as the first accredited institution among all Operating Structures responsible for the use of EU funds in our country.

Since 2003, the CFCU continues its activities, within the framework of the Employment and Budget Principles Law No. 5671 published on 7 June 2007 and the Personnel Regulation regarding the CFCU on 10 October 2007. The CFCU has been defined as the relevant Institution of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance with Presidential Circular No. 2018/1.

Since 25.03.2011, IQNet and TSE (Turkish Standards Institution) certified that the CFCU had implemented and still maintaining an "Information Security Management System (ISMS)" which fulfills the requirements of the "TS ISO / IEC 27001".

Our Functional Aspects 

  • Overall budgeting, tendering, contracting, payments, accounting and financial reporting of all procurement in the context of the EU funded programmes,
  • Having an active part together with the beneficiary institution and the contractor in successful implementation of the EU funded projects,
  • Managing all contractual operations in the in the project implementation period,
  • Ensuring actual use of EU funds by carrying out tendering and contracting processes of the projects within the certain time frames,
  • Developing a specialized advisory training capacity and maintain the necessary documentation for this purpose.

Our Mission

To achieve the international strategic cooperation goals required by the funds under the management of the CFCU and to ensure the best value for the public:

  • To contribute to the effectiveness of public project management ecosystem by carrying out the budgeting, tendering, contracting, monitoring, payment, accounting, and financial reporting of the projects within the framework of the determined national/international financing rules; and
  • To support the good governance practices in the public sector by extending institutional knowledge and experience in the field of public project management through training and consultancy.

Our Vision

To be an innovative, reliable and leading public project management institution that defines excellence in the management of national and international funds and maximizes public value.

Our Core Values

  • Impartiality
  • Transparency
  • Innovativeness
  • Good Governance
  • Accountability
  • Result Orientation
  • Respectability
  • Reliability
  • Compliance 
  • Professionalism

Strategic Goals

  • To ensure the best possible public value in the use of EU and other public funds.
  • To advance cooperation and competencies in project-based public administration as a excellence center.
  • To contribute to the creation of long-term public value through increased participation in international strategic cooperation programs.
  • To develop institutional capacity for sustainable, result-based and efficient public project management.