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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
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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
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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

• Producing revised scheme guidance and forms for
  claimants (item 13)
• Training staff in new processes and instructions
  (item 17)
• 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)
• 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

• Paying CAP scheme beneficiaries on a timely basis
  (item 18)
• 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)
• Ensuring low levels of financial correction (item
  19)
• Ensuring that scheme payments are legal and
  regular and have low rates of error (item 20)

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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 shouldnt 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 lets get to work!