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Dresdner Straße 701200 Wien
www.ama.atwww.eama.at
Administration of Investment Measures in Paying Agency of Austria
Günter Griesmayr
May, 6th 2015
K-A
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Relevant Elements of the Management and Control System
• Regulations Rural Development
• Approbation of projects (delegated bodies)
• On-the-spot control / risk analysis
• The technical service (on-the-spot controls)
• Database
• Internal and external audit
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EU Regulations
• Rural Development– Reg. (EU) No 1303/2013 (common provisions)
– Reg. (EU) No 1305/2013 (council / parliament)
– Reg. (EU) No 807/2014 (del. reg.)
• CAP– Reg. (EU) No 1306/2013 (council-reg.)
– Impl.- Reg. (EU) No 809/2014 (control)
– Del. Reg. (EU) No 907/2014 (annex)
– Impl.- Reg. No 908/2014 (accreditation Paying Agency)
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National Regulations
• Austrian RD Program
• National Ordinances – Agro-environment– Less Favored Areas– Investment in rural areas– Broadband infrastructure
• Regional Ordinances– Nature protection– Village renewal
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RD Budget Allocation in AT
Total budget for RD: 1,1 bn € p.a.
12%
50%
25%
10%
5%
2%
Axis 1
Agro-Inv (axis 2)
LFA (axis 2)
Axis 3
LEADER
Technical assistence
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The most important Investment Measures(average payments in mill. € pa )
• Investment in farm holdings: 80 mill. €– 76 %: Physical structure (barn, liquid manure,…)– Rest (each with about 3 – 5%):
• Equipment (e.g. milking machine)• Greenhouse• Mountain pasture (physical structure, processing,…)
• No support for:– Mechanizing equipment (tractors, combines,…)– Exception: special-purpose machines for joint use
• Infrastructure 30 mill. €
• Processing and marketing 12 mill. €
• Forestry measures 20 mill. €
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Reference Costs
• Provided by Federal Ministry of Agriculture
• Developed and periodical updated by a group of experts
• Based on empirical value (experts)
• Basis for costs evaluation for approving a project
• Not (yet) used as basis for payments!
• Austria intends to use as simplified cost instead of invoicing
• Field of application: construction (farm holdings, agro-tourism, biomass,…)
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Authorization and Control of Payments
Delegated bodies• 25 regional institutions (local governments)
® up to 700 employees • Separate treaty with each institution • Monitoring by Internal Audit of AMA following a 5-year-
plan• Quality check by operating department of AMA
(sampling inspection)
Benefit:• Specialized staff• Civil servants• Professionals (e.g. master-builder)• Ergo: high standard in processing of applications• Local governments: no costs for the Paying Agency
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Approval of Projects
Regional Institutions
• Receipt of Applications
• Check of Applications
• Selection process
• Data entry (database)
• Contracting procedure
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Authorization of Payments
Regional Institutions
• Receipt of payment claim
• Invoicing
• Decision
• If required: sanctions (Art. 63 Reg. No 809/2014)
• Data entry into database
• In-situ visits (effective date not determined)
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Operation / Time Flow
• Monthly payment
• Deadline for payment next month (e.g. June): 4th each month (May)
• Funds request
• Risk analysis (2 days)
• Handover of documents (2 days)
• On-the-spot control (4 weeks)
• Appraisal and data entry (1 week)
• Execution for payment (1 week)
• Accounting for payment (ca. 25th each month)
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The Technical Service
• Regional offices (AMA)
• Order by the central unit
• Information to the delegated body
• Order to regional offices (AMA) for the on-the-spot control
• Handover of documents (regional institution)
• On-the-spot control
• Return of the results and documents to the regional institution
• Assessment and data entry of the results by the granting body
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Database / IT-Management
• Database: online, managed by a central server
• Workflow system
• Number of users: up to 700
• Data entry by delegated body
• IACS-basic claims data (name, address, …)
• Administrative checks (work-flow)
• Calculation of sanction if appropriate
• Interface to risk analysis
• Interface to the accounting system (SAP)
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Current Problems
• Control and penalty rules– Applicable legislation is spread in different
regulations
– Guidance document prepared by the EC is helpful (draft version already available) – but it arrives rather late
• Control statistics– Preparation of the requested tables is very complex
– Requirements by the EC arrived rather late
– Therefore the provision of data is partial unfeasible
– Petition to the EK: Reduction to what is absolutely necessary!