1. Panta Rhei Report Brasov, Romania 20th – 22nd October 2009 Secretariat of Panta Rhei

2. SAPS in Romania 1.2 million farmers applying for SAPS. 2% of them applies for more than 60% of the arable land.

3. Tour de table Open source products – a wide variety between MS, from “not at all” to “wide extent” Payments in advance - made in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands Romania, Spain and to some extent in Wales

4. eGovernment in Czech Republic Presentation about ”Data boxes” - a communication standard for electronic exchange for national institutions and companies authorised in the company register This topic about eGovernment will continue next time with presentations from Denmark, Netherlands and Sweden

5. LPIS Quality work in Sweden Management and technical aspects of the inventory work of about 1 million parcels Office inventory on screen On- the spot inventory of pasture-land Test of new technology (laser scanning) Every block drawn up on the screen costs 5 € Every block drawn up after a field visit field costs67 € In addition, 10 € per block for managing, IT-systems, administration

6. eArchive in Belgium and Netherlands Common Priorities –Electronic communication with applicants –Single collection and multiple use of data –Customer-driven and efficient working procedures –Digitalisation of internal working procedures

7. eArchive BE and NL Lessons learned For OCR (optical character recognition) –Paper Forms need to be designed for OCR –High quality cannot be achieved instantly For “No more paper forms” –big or double computer screens! Scan and application side by side –Major change for all in the organisation E.g. electronic task list instead of pile of paper Communication is important!

8. eArchive BE and NL Conclusions Your strategy depends on circumstances and organizational/political choices (scalability, only e- declarations) Online application gives automatic checks and drastic decrease of administrative follow-up OCR is a temporary solution towards online applications Investments have to be made in staff education and the workplaces

9. Conclusions from work shops Interoperability Discussion about legal framework, organization within MS, technical and IT-security issues Outsourcing Important to have milestones to detect deviation from plans Internal staff for project management and business analysis Preference to outsource the technical staff

10. No paper forms, DK, NL No paperforms, only an identification code. Paper form only on request. Very good results, Denmark (from 64 to 87%) Netherlands (from 40 to 70%) e-applications Necessary to have good support and coaching for how to use the e-service How and when achive 100% e-applications?

11. Report from the Commission ISAMM Status report ISAMM (Information System for Agriculture Market management and Monitoring) Service orientation and interoperability are keywords Will go in production January 2010 for a limited number of forms. The whole system will have 800 different forms Mandatory e-application is possible – decision for the member state

12. Thank you for your attention! Christina Huhtasaari Swedish Board of Agriculture www.jordbruksverket.se www.panta.org E-mail: christina.huhtasaari@jordbruksverket.sechristina.huhtasaari@jordbruksverket.se Phone: +46 70 346 62 60