SAPARD IMPLEMENTATION CROATIA

Slaven Aljinović“Knowledge Power”

SAPARD Preconditions

• Candidate Status for full membership

• opens possibility to use financial support from EU special pre-Accession Program for agriculture and rural development – SAPARD (Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development).

SAPARD Framework

Article 2. Directive 1268/1999

• PRIORITY 1: STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

• PRIORITY 2: FOOD INDUSTRY, COMPETITIVENESS, QUALITY, MARKET ENTRY etc.

• PRIORITY 3: RURAL DEVELOPMENT

National Program for Accession to the EUNational Program for Accession to the EU

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENTAGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

- Defined priorities

- Defined measures

Financing of SAPARDSAPARD by EU by EUFinancing of SAPARDSAPARD by Croatia by Croatia

SAPARD Preparatory Steps

SAPARD Priorities

1. On-Farm Investments, Cadastre improvement, Farmers Education, Water Resources Mgmt., Reforestation, Private Forest Improvement

2. Processing and marketing of agricultural and fish products, quality control, veterinary service control, Border Inspection/Control, Producers Organizations

3. Development of new income sources in rural areas, improvement of rural infrastructure, handicrafts industry, etc.

Selected SAPARD Measures

1. On-Farm Investments

2. Processing and marketing of agricultural and fish products

3. Development and improvement of rural

infrastructure

SAPARD Finance

• SAPARD – 2005/2008

• Total 25.5 mil. Euro - (75% EU/25%)

• Measures 1&2 alloted 19 million Euro:

Max 330,000 EU/on-farm investorMax 1.3 million EU/food company(50%/50%)

• Measure 3 alloted 6 million Eur: Max 5 million EU/Municipality

(75/25%)

Milk, dairy products and meat:

• Investments in building, reconstruction or farm equipment for buildings/sheds

• Investments in equipment for manure handling and transportation

Fruits and Vegetables

• Investments in construction/reconstruction of greenhouses

• Investments in harvesting, handling, packing and storage of fruits & vegetables

• Investments in irrigation equipment Cereals

• Investments in building, reconstruction and/or equiping of dryers for row crops (cereals, corn, soybeans) up to 1000 t

Measure 1

– Milk and dairy products:

• Investments in building or reconstruction&equipment for dairy plants

– Meat and meat products:

• Investment in building, adaptation of slaughterhouses or equipment to modernize production

• Investment in factories for collection and processing of animal waste

– Fisheries

• investicije u izgradnju i/ili adaptaciju i/ili opremanje i modernizaciju pogona za preradu ribe i hladnjača za skladištenje

– Fruits&Vegetables

• Investments in building or reconstruction/equipment for fruit and vegetable processing facilities

Measure 2

- Investments in road building or road

reconstruction

- Investments in forest fire prevention roads

- Investments in sewage systems and waste water treatment plants

- Investments in termal plants based on use of agriculture and forest biomass

Measure 3

USAID Support

• Ministerial trip to Estonia (Summer 2005)

• Operational Managers trip to Czech Republic (Autumn 2005)

• Slovenian “Training of Trainers” (January2006)

• SAPARD Fund Users Support (2007-2008)

SAPARD Implementation Challenges

• Government:- slow mobilization/coordination- partnership with investors- level of staff education

• Agribusiness investors:

- information- legal status -

financial indicators- sectoral partnership- new type of requirements

SAPARD Utilization Results

• 1 Round (Dec 2006) – 49 applications/5 approved 6% utilization

• 2 Round (August 2007) - 46 applications/24 approved

End Results 2 rounds – 29 approved projects 87 million HRK financial support 59% utilization

• 3 Round (March 2008) – 23 applications/control phase EU complaints 5 million Euro cut in IPA

funds

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