Central Finance and Contracting Agency (CFCA) is a public institution established in 2007.

• As an Implementing Agency within IPA pre-accession programme (IPA Component I and Transition Facility), the CFCA is in charge of the overall procurement and tendering procedures, contracting, payments, accounting and reporting within the decentralized implementation system of EU funded programmes in Croatia.

• The CFCA also performs tasks of the Administrative Office for Twinning. As the Twinning Administrative Office, the CFCA has been designated to retain the overall procedural, financial and contractual management of all Twinning and Twinning light projects under IPA Component I and Transition Facility Instrument in the Republic of Croatia. Moreover, National Contact Point (NCP) for Twinning projects implemented in Croatia is established within the CFCA, as the central point of communication and coordination between the Republic of Croatia and the European Commission, NCPs of other beneficiary countries and NCPs of EU member states.

• The Central Finance and Contracting Agency acts as Intermediate Body Level 2 in the management and control system of EU structural instruments in specific Operational Programmes, whereby the Agency is responsible for drafting methodology for evaluation of eligibility criteria, implementation of procedures related to verification of eligibility, control of eligibility of costs and supervision of the project implementation.

• Along with the roles of the Implementing Body and Intermediate Body Level 2 described above, the CFCA implements activities related to education of the employees of the beneficiary institutions of the IPA Component I and Transition Facility, as well as grant contract beneficiaries within the structural instruments.