Pursuant to Act No 575/2001 on the organisation of government activities and the central state administration organisation, as amended, the Public Procurement Office (‘the Act on the organisation of central state administration’) is the central government body for public procurement. In addition to the above, the Office performs supervision of public procurement and other tasks defined under Act No 343/2015 on public procurement and amending certain acts. Objective projektu:Projekt Financing of wage expenditure eligible AK PPO II. (hereinafter referred to as “the project”) aims to ensure the reimbursement of the salary expenses of eligible staff of the Office and thus to avoid fluctuations and support for staff involved in the efficient and effective provision of professional tasks carried out by the Office in the context of the control of projects co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). Project activity: The project will be implemented through a single activity called “Financing of Wage Expenses of the AC PPO”. This activity will stabilise the administrative capacity of the Office (hereinafter referred to as “ESI Funds AF”) necessary for the implementation of the national administration in the area of public procurement control and supervision of public procurement in the framework of projects co-financed by the ESI Funds. The eligible ESI Funds SAs are 25 staff members of the Office who carry out eligible activities resulting from cooperation agreements and are in line with the description of the activity of the civil servant post. The project activity is based on the project activity entitled “Financing of wage expenses of eligible AK PPOs” with ITMS 2014+ code 301011D180, which was actually completed in December 2018. The items financed under this project were a group of expenditure – 521 wage expenditure in the approved financial amount of EUR 21 307 45.50. The project will be implemented from 01/2019-12/2019 for a total duration of 12 months.  Quantifiable ukazovateľ:merateľným the project indicator will be the average number of staff reimbursed from OP TA totalling 20, which was determined on the basis of the expected evolution of the occupation of posts – the administrative capacity of the Office that the Office is planning to be fully filled with, the expected increase in the number of ESI Funds contracts audited and also on the basis of the monitoring data from the period 01-12/2018.