1. Enlargement process IPA programmes
20th meeting of the Management Group on Statistical Cooperation
Luxembourg, April 2018
Torbioern Carlquist
Eurostat, team leader Enlargement team

2. Enlargement process
Political process – assessment of compliance and readiness
Chapter 18 Statistics
Questionnaire to potential candidate
Opinion of Commission on a membership application
Screening of the EU acquis
Opening and/or closing Benchmark (condition) for a chapter
Draft Common Position on the chapter – between the candidate country and EU
Before accession, the acceding country has to be compliant with the EU acquis
Reminder of main objectives
STRONG RESULTS FOCUS

3. IPA 2014 MBP Service contract 5.3 MEUR, mainly for AL, BA, XK
Grants to ME, MK, RS, TR, total 2.5 MEUR to 4 countries
Implementation finalised at the end of 2017
A few Pilot Projects in the service contract were extended until end 2017
Successful programme

4. IPA 2015 MBP
Service contract 9.8 MEUR, mainly to AL,BA,XK (but also to ME,MK,RS,TR)
Grants to ME, MK, RS, TR, total 6.0 MEUR to 4 countries
Implementation since July 2017, but due to overlap with IPA 2014, most activities started in November Ends in October 2019
A first progress report of the service contract provided in Feb. 2018
New: to finance Peer Reviews from IPA programmes
Kosovo, Serbia in 2017; Albania, Montenegro in 2018
New: one or two ad-hoc projects for AL,BA, XK – increased flexibility
Traineeships – 4 rounds of 3.5 – 5 months each
2nd round 15/01/2018 – 15/06/2018
3rd round 3/09/2018 – 14/12/2018 is in preparation

5. IPA 2017 MBP
Total amount is maximum 14 MEUR, of which max 6 MEUR for four grants
New: Statistical Projects with increased focus on complete compliance at the end of the project, including transmission of statistical data to ESTAT
Grant applications from 4 partner countries (ME,MK,RS,TR) due mid-March 2018
Service contract will be tendered during 2018
Implementation to start 2019 Q2 and last until 2021 Q3 (indicative only)
Grant to IMF (with special focus on Montenegro), successor of the current Swiss-funded activities by IMF
External sector statistics
Government finance statistics

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