Complementarities and avoiding overlapping between Funds

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Complementarities and avoiding overlapping
between Funds

• Presentation at the DG Agri seminar Oct 3-4 2007
• Roland Sten Swedish Board of Agriculture
• Thérèse Ljungquist Swedish Board of Agriculture

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Basics

• Funds and programmes between which synergies or
  overlapping may arise
• EGF Direct support schemes
• EARDF Rural development
• ERDF Regional development
• EFF Fisheries
• ESF Employment
• Other financial instruments

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Complementarities

• Between measures in the RDP
• Between RDP and other programmes
• Swedish ideas how to get a high volume of
  complementarity
• 1. Projects which have potential to be built up
  as a chain of coordinated different measures get
  high priority in connection with the handling of
  the new applications

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Example 1

• A farmer believes that his farm, from its
  location at a lake, has good qualities for
  tourism but he is confused. He applies for
  training connected with farm tourism. He goes on
  and applies for the diversification measure to
  build cottages and arrangements for sport
  fishing. The business expands. His non farming
  neighbours start microenterprises to supply to
  the visitors different products. The neighbours
  apply for investment aid in microenterprises to
  build a shop. And so on

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• 2. There is a common arena for all programmes in
  a region aiming at developing its economy and
  increase employment

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Example 2 Arena for different programmes

• Every county in Sweden must produce and follow a
  Regional development strategy in which
  different programmes for developing the region
  are put together. This includes the RDP, the
  structural funds and national programmes.
• The strategy is produced by authorities in the
  county together with a partnership. The strategy
  functions as a common arena for the programmes.

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Conclusion

• With a common arena for different development
  programs, all authorities, including their staff,
  involved in different programs
• will have a good opportunity to be conscious of
  the whole public mechanism for development in the
  county
• will have good possibilities to create synergies
  between programmes in connection with own
  initiatives for development and the handling of
  applications for support.

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Conclusion

• The strategic document should have a legal
  status and be well known in the region as the
  basic instrument for the vision of a prosperous
  future in the region
• If the strategic document is well-known to all
  potential applicants it can simplify for them to
  find the appropriate measure (one channel in)
• Officers handling different programmes must be
  offered good service training also in programmes
  that do not belong to their prime area of
  responsibility

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Conclusion

• In the implementation process of the RDP, the
  County Administrative Boards must let other
  regional authorities (responsible for other
  funds) take an active part when applications for
  support are decided. How this system is
  elaborated is up to the regions to decide.

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Quotation

• In Sweden we use a picture from drain protection
  system on houses to illustrate cooperation
  between authorities The authorities must behave
  like one groove , not like many drain-pipes

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Identifying different target groups, objectives
and priorities
EARDF land based industries local development microenterprisesin rural areas ERDF large infrastructural projects general efforts to promote regional development
EFF activities closely linked to the fishery sector including aqua culture and processing small rural areas with a fishing population ESF increase supply of demanded competence in the regions increase the labour force (part of the national labour market policy)
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Conclusions

• Clearly defined target groups, objectives and
  priorities within the programmes makes it easy to
  establish borderlines.
• An on-going adjusting process on central and
  regional level will improve the delimitation made
  in the programmes.

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Overlapping zone

• In areas such as promotion of enterprise, growth
  and innovation in rural areas aimed at boosting
  competitiveness and employment, synergies as
  well as overlapping risks will occur
• In RDP primarily operations under axis 3

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Applications for support

• Overlapping risks can be discovered either
• by information in the application form, or
• by the type of operation as such, it can be
  difficult to place grey area

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Handling of grey area applications
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Payment claims

• A follow-up check must be executed before
  payment, to secure that no other support has been
  granted during the implementation of the
  operation.

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Working group for Fund coordination

• A group with participants from all Fund
  authorities has been established to deal with
  strategic questions related to complementarity
  and to avoid overlapping.
• The group will e.g. work for training of the
  staff handling applications and further
  developing routines for the handling process, but
  also promoting collaboration between the
  different partnerships and so on.

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