DG AGRI and the ENRD Contact Point jointly organised a workshop on ‘Agri-environment-climate Measures (AECM): Challenges of controllability and verifiability’ in Brussels on 7 December 2016.
The workshop addressed specifically the design and implementation of result-oriented AECM; collective approaches to AECM; and support for input reduction. It further discussed challenges related to controllability and verifiability of AECM interventions and the avoidance of double funding. Finally, it explored the opportunities that the Measure offers in the above mentioned fields.
The workshop included presentations from experts and auditors from DG AGRI and the European Court of Auditors (ECA). Additionally, it discussed examples of current practices in a number of EU Member States and featured practical exercises on designing and implementing audit-compliant, result-oriented AECM.
The event gathered around 80 national and regional Managing Authorities and Paying Agencies, as well as DG AGRI Desk Officers.
If you have questions on this event, please write to rdp-events@enrd.eu.
Background documents
Factsheets
- Avoiding the risk of double funding
- Finding solutions to control AECM support for input reductions
- Collective approaches to AECM
- Result-based approaches to AECM
Presentations
- The Agri-environment-climate Measure: Expectations and requirements for selected interventions, Krzysztof Sulima, DG AGRI
- Experiences from auditing agri-environmental measures, Paolo Rexha, European Court of Auditors (ECA)
Input reduction support
- Examples from the Member States
- Approach applied in France, Marion Dominiak, Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry, France
- Approach applied in England, Russel Todd, DEFRA
- The auditors’ perspective on input reduction operations, Miguel Lago, Audit Unit, DG AGRI
Risk of double funding
- Avoiding double funding: the perspective from the Member States
- Experiences from Austria from the perspective:
- of the Managing Authority, Thomas Neudorfer, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
- of the Paying Agency, Johannes Kneissl, AgrarMarkt Austria
- Experiences from Poland, Anna Jobda, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Experiences from Austria from the perspective:
- Double funding – the perspective of the auditors, Paolo Rexha, European Court of Auditors (ECA)
Collective approaches to AECM
- First lessons from collective AECM implementation 2014-2020: the Dutch experiences, Jan Gerrit Deelen and Aard Mulders, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands
- Implementing result-oriented AECM: adapting the concept to EAFRD 2014-2020:
- Experiences from Romania, Razvan Popa, ADEPT Transilvania Foundation
- Experiences from Ireland, Jerome Walsh, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Exercises of the group work on designing and implementing audit-compliant result-oriented AECM, ENRD CP
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