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Workshop 2: How can Paying Agencies and the European Commission ensure the successful implementation of CAP reform? Questionnaire results. Marcin Wardal, ARR. Feedback. 24 questions importance and difficulty evaluation (score 1 – 5) open questions: risk and how to mitigate it - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
30th Conference of Directors of EU Paying Agencies
Workshop 2: How can Paying Agencies and the European Commission ensure the successful implementation of CAP reform?
Questionnaire results
Marcin Wardal, ARR
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Feedback
•24 questions
•importance and difficulty evaluation (score 1 – 5)
•open questions: risk and how to mitigate it
•Answers from 27 paying agencies / 23 MS
•All issues got rather high scores, both for importance and difficulty
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CAP reform implementation matrix
9
6
223
7
2,50
3,75
5,00
2,50 3,75 5,00
Difficulty
Impo
rtan
ce
19
18
13
20
14
21
17
12
5
15
16
22
83
424
101
2
6
9
11
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Most critical issues
1. Ensuring low levels of financial correction (item 19)2. Ensuring that scheme payments are legal and
regular and have low rates of error (item 20)3. Procuring new information systems (item 14)4. Delivering relevant ICT and change projects within
agreed tolerances for time, cost and quality (item 9)
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Keep the direction
1. Producing revised scheme guidance and forms for claimants (item 13)
2. Training staff in new processes and instructions (item 17)
3. Communicating relevant information to stakeholders, including CAP scheme beneficiaries, and ensuring efficient communication between EC services and Paying Agencies on the implementation of schemes (item 6)
4. Paying CAP scheme beneficiaries on a timely basis (item 18)
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Implementation-friendly activities
• Easiest and less significant issue: defining tasks to be delegated and taking steps to ensure the proper delegation of tasks
• No need to re-evaluate activities
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Most difficult issues
1. Ensuring low levels of financial correction (item 19)2. Procuring new information systems (item 14)3. Ensuring that scheme payments are legal and
regular and have low rates of error (item 20)4. Delivering relevant ICT and change projects within
agreed tolerances for time, cost and quality (item 9)
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Most important issues
1. Paying CAP scheme beneficiaries on a timely basis (item 18)
2. Communicating relevant information to stakeholders, including CAP scheme beneficiaries, and ensuring efficient communication between EC services and PA on the implementation of schemes (item 6)
3. Ensuring low levels of financial correction (item 19)4. Ensuring that scheme payments are legal and regular
and have low rates of error (item 20)
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Ranking by importance with the level of difficulty
2,00
2,50
3,00
3,50
4,00
4,50
5,00
18 6 19 20 9 14 12 8 1 10 22 11 13 4 15 2 3 17 24 23 5 21 16 7
Question no.
Scor
e
Importance Difficulty
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Main risks and obstacles
• too little time – late EU bodies decisions, too short period for implementation,
• rules & definitions are unclear, ambiguous and too general,
• rules & definitions are too complex and detailed, • rules changing too often,• lack of human resources,• budgetary contstraints, • rules are difficult for beneficiaries, problems with their
access to information,
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Most wanted solutions
• better time scheduling, EU legislation in time,• clear rules, more precise EU regulations,• rules shouldn’t be changed so often,• better communication and cooperation EC – MS (PA),• feedback from EC: guidelines, working documents
explaining definitions, etc.,• pre-audits and impact assesments,• transition period, 1 year for implementation,• staff trainings,• better communication PA – beneficiaries,• simplification!!!
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Other issues
Pre-implementation audits (Item 5):A pre-audited scheme/activity may be in future subject to the ”classic” (ex-post) audit.
Will the ”classic” auditors be always of 100% the same opinion as the auditors who conducted pre-audit?
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Thank you for your attention…
…and let’s get to work!