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How PEACE PLUS is structured

PEACE PLUS is jointly managed by Ireland and Northern Ireland via SEUPB, a Good Friday Agreement institution. All projects must have a cross-border or cross-community dimension. Read the funding twice: of the €1,145m, the EU itself puts in €234m. The UK puts in €681m, Northern Ireland €170m and Ireland €59m. The ERDF column is 80% of the total because 80% is the Interreg maximum — but most of the money inside it is British, not Brussels.

ERDF (Interreg)Reg. (EU) 2021/1059€1.145bn total (2021–2027)
One programme, too many disconnected records. Delivery notes, partner decisions, expenditure, results and reporting evidence often sit in different places.

How the money reaches an organisation

Every level here can be asked for its own process map. That is the point of yours.

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European Commission — DG REGIO
€234m from the EU in the Financing Agreement of March 2023 — the €235m of EU money Ireland assigns to PEACE PLUS from its €293m ETC allocation under Reg. (EU) 2021/1059, as the financing table has it
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Irish Govt (DPER) + NI Department of Finance
Joint co-sponsors of SEUPB; provide national co-financing
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Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) — Managing Authority, Joint Secretariat and Accounting Function
Good Friday Agreement institution. It runs the calls, assesses applications, approves claims, draws up the Programme’s accounts and submits payment applications to the Commission. Decisions on funding are taken by the Steering Committees, not by SEUPB itself.
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Pobal — Intermediary Body for Investment Areas 1.2 and 6.2
For Small Scale Projects (1.2) and Investment Area 6.2, Pobal handles the applications and does the management verifications on behalf of SEUPB. If you are applying under those areas, Pobal is your counterparty — not the Joint Secretariat, and not an external Controller.
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11 NI District Councils + 6 Irish Border County Councils
Lead Local Action Plans; design investment plans with local communities
👉 Your organisation sits at this level
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Delivery Partners — NGOs, Charities, Health, Education Bodies
Cross-community and cross-border projects with a peace/reconciliation dimension
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Participants and communities
Border communities, victims and survivors of the Troubles, cross-community participants and young people. In Interreg language the beneficiary is the partner organisation that claims; these are the people the work is for.
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Audit Chain
Built upward from your project, not downward from Brussels. Your records → the Controller verifies each partner’s expenditure (management verifications; for Investment Areas 1.2 and 6.2 this is Pobal) → SEUPB’s Managing Authority and Joint Secretariat approve the claim, and its Accounting Function certifies the accounts and claims from the European Commission → the Audit Authority — a unit of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (DPER) in Ireland, deliberately outside SEUPB — audits a sample and sends the Commission an annual audit opinion, assisted by a Group of Auditors with one representative for Ireland and one for the UK and Northern Ireland (Department of Finance NI), each auditing in its own territory → the European Commission accepts the accounts. Alongside, not above: the Commission’s own audit services, the European Court of Auditors, national bodies, and OLAF, which investigates suspected fraud.

Process maps under this programme

Where this came from

Human reviewed2026-09-20Automatically checked2026-10-12Current source statusAutomatic baseline required

Read against the source on 2026-09-20. This is the human-reviewed version.

What that check changed: Reviewed and updated on 20 September 2026 against Programme Manual v12; 13 sources are listed below. The Dáil record has both: the ERDF column is €916m, €681m of it British money, beside the €235m shown here. The Audit Authority is a unit of the Department of Public Expenditure in Ireland, outside SEUPB; the chain runs through the Controller verifying each partner’s expenditure, SEUPB’s Accounting Function and the Commission. Pobal is the Intermediary Body for Small Scale Projects. Three to diary: a review can be requested only after a de-briefing, the Review Request Template due seven working days later; procurement above the EU thresholds goes on OJEU, and in Northern Ireland Find a Tender alone draws a financial correction; raw participant data is kept two years, until verification and audit checks end. The 60:40 cross-community ratio applies in eight of the 22 Investment Areas.