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AGEA : Agenzia per erogazioni in agricoltura ( Italian Paying Agency)

AGEA : Agenzia per erogazioni in agricoltura ( Italian Paying Agency). Presentation of the Italian system. AGEA’s mission. National law 99/2004 has given AGEA the role of: Authority for the coordination of the controls in agriculture

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AGEA : Agenzia per erogazioni in agricoltura ( Italian Paying Agency)

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  1. AGEA: Agenzia per erogazioni in agricoltura (ItalianPaying Agency) Presentation of the Italiansystem

  2. AGEA’s mission • National law 99/2004 has given AGEA the role of: • Authority for the coordination of the controls in agriculture • Responsible for the management of the SIAN (National Agriculture Information System enforcing nat. law 173/99) and IACS and the integration of the territorial, graphical and transactional data bases of the agricultural sector Within this framework AGEA guarantees the: • Definition of the standards for the full compliance with the SIAN’s infrastructure; • Realization of the utilities for the interoperability, exchange and cooperation among the different Administrations with the data bases of the SIAN. 2 2

  3. PayingAgenciesframework A modification of Italian Constitutional law of 2001 gave Italy’s Regional authorities (and Autonomous Provinces) specific administrative and legislative powers in the context of management of local agricultural policy Functions previously performed by a single national paying agency, i.e. AGEA, have been decentralized since 2002 and transferred to individual regions. In this regard, the latter have gradually designated their own paying agencies (PA) as laid down in Legislative Decree No. 165/99. To date, there are eleven accredited paying agencies in Italy. 3 3

  4. AGEA asCoordination Body • The responsibilitiesof AGEA asCoordination Body are: • Allocate the funds to the Paying Agencies taking into account the needs and expenditure forecasts made by the PA themselves; • Report to the EU on all the payments made by the different PA in accordance with the procedures, formats and deadlines required by Community legislation; • Take care of the relations with the European Commission on matters pertaining to the management of funds EAGF – EAFRD looking after the respect of the terms of payment; • Promote the harmonization of the application of Community legislation, monitoring the compliance and the timing of the procedures implemented by the different PA; • Express technical and legal advice for the accreditation of paying agencies ensuring that the organization and structures are consistent and compliant with EU regulations.

  5. AGEA asPayingAgency • AGEA asPayingAgencyisresponsibleof: • management ofpublic storage of agricultural products; • supplyoffoodto the benefit of the mostdeprived people; • programs for the improvement of the quality of agricultural products; • provision of food supply to other counties under the framework of EU economic cooperation. • AGEA operatesthen under the principleofsubsidiariety on behalfof the local (regional) Public AdministrationnothavingyetestablishedtheirownPayingAgency.

  6. The italian IACS system ismanagedby AGEA on behalfof the ItalianMinistryofAgriculture and is part of the the SIAN (ItalianAgricultural Information System). Itincludesservicesforall the differentdepartmentsof the administration: agricultural, forestry, fisheries, landcontrol, foodsafety. 7.000Bill. € of aids tofarmersprovidedeachyear 2.000.000farmsmanaged 20.000usersfor more than 150 differentadministrations; AgreementswithCentral and Local P.A. (Finance, Health, Census, INPS) for data and servicesexchange; 5.000counterstocitizensbycentral or localoffices Italian IACS: Some figures

  7. General IACS workflow AGEA Paying Agencies SIN Technical body of AGEA CAA Centers for assistance to farmers • IACS Management (IT) • Subsidies • Farm'sRegistry • LPIS upgrade (refresh project) • Ont the Spot Controls • Eligibility (LPIS) • Field 5% • Cross Compliance (GA EC) • Cross Compliance (SMR) • EntitelmentsRegistry Certified holdings Support to farmers Formation and maintainance of - - Farm's registry Documents conservation Filling of application Internet transmission of information Pre-checked applications Cross checks by IACS Payments procedures Debtor's registry Payments Execution

  8. CAA's activities • The Centers for Assistance to Farmers (CAA) take care of all the duties required by national law 99/2004 for the upkeep of electronic farm's registryas defined in the procedures handbook drawn up by AGEA with special regard to: • Recordingof sole representation mandate countersignedby the farmer • Acquisition and maintainanceofall the documentsrequiredfor farm's regstryformation and managamenteither electronic or asphysicalarchive • Recordingof the basic information (personal details) and farm's assets (landproperties, buildings, machinery and production components) requiredby the implementationof electronic farm's registry • Maintainanceof the physicalarchives and of the farmer's acceptancedocumentationof the entirecontentof the electronic farm's registry • Management ofinconsistencies and certificationbymeansof a specific check-list of the carrying out ofall the cross checks and of the completenessof the documentationrequiredby the farm's registry 8

  9. CAA's committments • The “representative mandate” is the contract between the CAA and the farmer and legitimate it, only within the requirements of farm's registry, to: • carry out controlsover the farm in ordertoguarantee the accuracyof information acquired • access the system (SIAN), on itsassociatedfarmer's information only in orderof the management of the documentation on the basisof the rulesdefinedby AGEA coordination body • The activitiescarried out by the CAA are tobecompliantto CE Reg. 1663/95 ensuring: • a clearseparationofroles and inherentresponsabilities • the compliancewith the writtenprocedures • the applicationof the requested check-list • The respectofsuitablelevelsof security whenaccessing the information system 9

  10. CAA's activities scheme Integrates or modify its information / solve the inconsistencies declares Farm Shows all the information regarding the farm and/or the existing inconsistencies Animals in the Livestock Registry Paying Agency system The system of the Paying Agency extracts information from external system in orde to: 1. gather information 2.execute cross checks Manages the certified Farm's registry Manages declared information of farmers Land properties at the Cadastre Main office and legal representative at Tax registry Farm's Registry Business information at Chamber of commerce

  11. The mission of SIN SIN is a company, established with the AGEA’s board of director resolution on the 2005 November 25th. AGEA owns 100% of the share capital, whose for the 49% has been temporally transferred to a private partner selected with an European open tender SIN realize services for the public administrations; with his organization “address, manage, control and monitor” the services provided by the private partner The private partner is formed by a temporary grouping of enterprises (RTI): Almavivas.p.a., Sofiter – SocietàterziarioavanzatoS.p.A., AgriconsultingS.p.A., CooprogettiSocietàcooperativa, IBM Italia S.p.A., Auselda AED Group S.p.A., Agrifuturo – Societàcooperativa a mutualitàprevalente, TelespazioS.p.A. 11 11

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