Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb The eFarmer Project Farmer Communication Services for CAP Tibor Sutóris eFarmer project manager Novitech Plc, Slovakia Phone:

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Administrative Project details  Contract No. EDC eContent Programme - Business project  Concluded with Directorate General for Information Society, European Commission on 24th December 2004  Project Consortium: 9 partners lead by Novitech Plc., Slovakia  Duration : 26 months Project start date : 1 th January 2005  Total budget : € EC contribution : €

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Participants and Roles  Novitech (SK) – coordinator, implementer  Slovak Chamber of Agriculture and Food Industry (SK) - agro- participant  Slovak University of Agriculture (SK) - academic participant  Szent István University (HU) - academic participant, implementer Small and Medium Size Enterprises Union (HU) - agro-participant  National Council of Agricultural Chambers (PL) - agro-participant Agriculture Chamber of the Czech Republic (CZ) – agro-participant  Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry (CZ) – academic participant  + Food and Agriculture SEUR (HU) – organization of the UN  Agro-participant – manage demonstration activities, specify country- specific requirements of eFARMER services, RPA interfaces  Academic participant - develop (collect) community standard CAP content, organize trainings

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Expected Results of the Project  Creation of a FARMER content transformation system producing up-to-date rural-aid related content services (the static use of eFARMER content),  Introduction of a set of rural aid compilation and electronic submission web services (the dynamic use of eFARMER content),  Demonstration of the sustainability of the business model for providing these services to target farmers on a commercial basis through a network of representatives using eFarmer services – so called eFarmers (eFARMER demonstration).

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Users and Beneficiaries  eFarmer services users :  eFarmers (advisors) authorised by farmers  Single farmers (direct access)  Agriculture associations, Farmer advisors  Benefits for users :  Access to up-to-date information – CAP content (=what are the farmer entitlements)  To save communication cost with RPA by surface mail or by person, no penalties for missing claim submission term and returned claims,  Error correction – significantly reduce claim errors and rate of incomplete documents  Benefits for RPA:  Reducing transaction costs in information dissemination  Reducing transaction costs in claim processing

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb PSI Re-used and Value Added  Improve access to high quality digital content on the global network - creation of the structured CAP content,  Improve access in multiple languages – providing relevant CAP content dedicated to the farmers in V4 countries – the eFarmer system will communicate in English and four national languages,  Accelerate development of the European information society – Increase the use of information technology within agricultural sector through eFarmer agents,  Contribution to the objectives of the updated eEurope 2005 Action Plan – the eFarmer system brings new opportunities for private investments – at the end of the project an eFarmer Plc. Shareholder company is about to be established. (PSI = Public Sector Information)

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Cross-border Nature of Content and Services  The project builds cross-border services transforming public sector CAP content. This new content is derived from the following sources:  Community standard content (DG Agriculture)  Country specific CAP content from V4 countries  Support for cross-border farmers. Example: farmers in EU country A can use CAP content and submit claim in EU country B. eFarmer Services = One common CAP window for an EU farmer for: Information retrieval and Claim submission

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Communication model between EC and Farmers

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb The eFarmer Service Model Internet Services Payments for services.... eFarmer Plc (Service provider) eFarmers (Direct users) Farmers ( Claimants ) Clearing Fees for services provided to eFarmers by eFarmer Plc (cfx,sfx) Fees for assistance to farmers provided by eFarmers (sf4) Payment Agency

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb How the results were achieved 1.Creation of the Content transformation module 2.Basic Content completion 3.Creation of the Claim Submission module 4.Customisation into national languages 5.Content completion with national documents 6.Utilisation of Claim Submission module with national schemes (mainly SAPS, TOP-UP, LFA) 7.Dissemination of the results: a.Testing the solution within the Consortium b.Training of eFarmers c.WorkShops d.InfoDays e.International Conference 8.Preparation of the business plan, future activities

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Hungary  Electronic Content creation  165 documents in national language  86 documents from general CAP  More documents can be found on  Documents are uploaded continuously  Claim Submission module  Module contains 8 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups...  Direct electronic claim submission to MVH – tested in operational mode during 2006  More functionality under preparation

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Hungary  Dissemination activities  eFarmer trainings – 37 trained and certified eFarmers  eFarmer WorkShops – 2 WorkShop with 39 attendees  eFarmer InfoDays – SZIE provided 10 InfoDays with 236 attendees, KKVE provided 21 InfoDays with 245 attendees (still running)  Responses from the dissemination activities were used for eFarmer portal improvements  Sustainability of business model  Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services  Business plan preparations  Services still remain free of charge during 2007

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Monthly portal visitors [ during year 2006www.efarmer.hu Statistics provided by NAJ.sk Month Number of visitors

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Slovakia  Electronic Content creation  150 documents in national language  86 documents from general CAP  Documents are uploaded continuously  Claim Submission module  Module contains 10 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups...  Direct electronic claim submission to PPA – agreement with PPA not reached yet and waiting for public interface. General simulation interface currently under development.  More functionality under preparation

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Slovakia  Dissemination activities  eFarmer trainings – 23 trained and certified eFarmers  eFarmer WorkShops – 1 WorkShop with 33 attendees  eFarmer InfoDays – SAU together with SPPK provided 15 InfoDays with 700 attendees  Dissemination activity feedback was used for eFarmer portal improvements  Sustainability of business model  Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services  Business plan preparations  Services still remain free of charge during 2007

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Monthly portal visitors [ during year 2006www.efarmer.sk Statistics provided by NAJ.sk Number of visitors Month

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Poland  Electronic Content created  230 documents in national language  86 documents from general CAP  Documents are uploaded continuously  Claim Submission module  Module contains 9 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups...  Direct electronic claim submission to ARiMR – discussions with ARiMR still ongoing and waiting for public interface. General simulation interface is currently under development.  More functionality under preparation

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Poland  Dissemination activities  eFarmer trainings – 183 trained and certified eFarmers  eFarmer WorkShops – 10 WorkShop with 280 attendees  eFarmer InfoDays – KRIR provided 22 InfoDays with 600 attendees  Dissemination activity feedback was used for eFarmer portal improvements  Sustainability of business model  Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services  Business plan preparations  Services still remain free of charge during 2007

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Monthly portal visitors [ during year 2006www.efarmer.pl Statistics provided by NAJ.sk Number of visitors Month

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Czech republic  Electronic Content created  28 documents in national language  86 documents from general CAP  Documents are uploaded continuously  Claim Submission module  Module contains 4 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups, and Sugar  Direct electronic claim submission to SZIF – agreement with SZIF not reached yet. Waiting for public interface. General simulation interface is currently under development.  More functionality under preparation

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Czech republic  Dissemination activities  eFarmer trainings – 43 trained and certified eFarmers  eFarmer WorkShops – 2 WorkShop with 71 attendees  eFarmer InfoDays – AKCR together with MZLU provided 10 InfoDays with 896 attendees  Dissemination activity feedback was used for eFarmer portal improvements  Sustainability of business model  Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services  Business plan preparations  Services still remain free of charge during 2007

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Results within countries Monthly portal visitors [ during year 2006www.efarmer.cz Statistics provided by NAJ.sk Number of visitors Month

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – main V4 page

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – main HU page

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – choosing an appropriate scheme

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – Claim completion

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – scheme assistant

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – scheme assistant

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal – Content

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal - eLearning

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb eFarmer portal - eLearning

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference31 Jan – 01 Feb Thank you for your attention! Contact: Tibor Sutóris – project manager