SAPARD : toutes les agences accréditées fin 2002
SAPARD : all accredited agencies at the end of 2002
The process of accreditation of the agencies will have considerably delayed the provision of funds in all the 10 CEECs. Two countries and not of least always remain on standby: Romania and Hungary, as there is a provisional agreement for Poland.
- Let us recall that program SAPARD, constitutes the third financial instrument of pre-accession with HEADLIGHT and ISPA. Equipped with an annual allowance of 520 M€ over the period 2000-2006, it supports projects (in general 50% of the cost) in the field of agriculture and the rural development around 15 priorities:
| 1) | investment in the exploitations |
| 2) | transformation and marketing of the products |
| 3) | veterinary and plant health controls |
| 4) | « reasoned agriculture » |
| 5) | diversification of the economic activities |
| 6) | management of the exploitations |
| 7) | producer groups |
| 8) | rural inheritance |
| 9) | regrouping |
| 10) | land registers |
| 11) | vocational training |
| 12) | rural infrastructures |
| 13) | hydraulic stock management |
| 14) | sylviculture |
| 15) | technical aid |
- During the year 2001, five agencies were the subject of an accreditation, late enough for some, which limited the use of the funds. Two new agencies (Slovakia and Czech Rep.) were accredited at the beginning of 2002. The accreditation implies that the management of the funds and the implementation of the program concern the local agencies without control a priori Brussels but only ex-post. The principle of granting of the funds concerns the logic of counter for the private companies (of local right, whatever the origin of the capital) depositing requests for subsidies for their projects. It should be noted that the accredited countries did not select all 15 above mentioned priority and in general profited from a partial accreditation. It is thus imperative to be addressed to agencies SAPARD directly to check potential eligibility of a project.
- The priorities adopted by the whole of the accredited countries relate to the investments in the farms (except Estonia), the improvement of the production process and of marketing and the diversification of the activities in rural zones. Significant opportunities thus exist already for any manufacturer of hardware, company of consulting and any carrier of project wishing to create an activity in rural zone. It should be noted that on the few 3,7 Bn € available until the end of 2006, the whole of accredited measurements represent a little less than 900 M € maybe nearly 25% of the funds. The « heavy lorries » of the agricultural sector are admittedly not yet in string. Thus Poland which should be accredited before the summer according to the Commission, will profit from an equipment from approximately 170 M€ / year. Romania whose accreditation is rather awaited for September 2002 will have a budget of 150 M€ / year but should initially subsidize only concerning projects 3 priorities: transformation and marketing; rural infrastructures; technical aid. The two countries remaining to be accredited (Romania, Hungary) account for 36% of the equipments of program SAPARD.
- The attribution of the subsidies also runs up against the administrative assembly of the files by operators still little broken with these practices. Any offer of a provider guaranteeing an assistance with obtaining the financings necessary to an acquisition can only support its establishment on a mar ket whose funds SAPARD represent only part of « the iceberg ». In 2004, all the new Member States of the UE will lose indeed the benefit of funds SAPARD. But with the present stage of the Commission proposals, nearly 40 Bn € assistances with adhesion will be then available for the 10 PECO including nearly 10 Bn € for agriculture and 25 Bn € with the title of the structural measures.
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