1. EXPERT SYSTEM OF THE HUNGARIAN SAPARD PAYMENT AGENCY written by Krisztina Tusor

2. THE STRUCTURE OF MY PRESENTATION I. Introduction II. The importance of establishing an expert system III. The expert system itself IV. Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION SAPARD in general What is SAPARD? Special Accession Program for Agriculture and Rural Development What is the main objective of SAPARD? prepare for the Structural Funds

4. INTRODUCTION The annual budget of SAPARD: 520 million Euro Hungary: 38 million Euro = 10 billion HUF

5. THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTABLISHING AN EXPERT SYSTEM HAS TO meet the financial and legal requirements of the EU Tool: an expert system But how?

6. THE EXPERT SYSTEM structured thinking the system asks questions the user choose one option as an answer the system provides an output How does it look like in practice?

7. EXPERT SYSTEM WHY LEVEL 5 ? *need only little programming knowledge *easy to handle WHO can be the potential users? *The SAPARD Payment Agency * the management of Micro Regions * private consultancy companies * the potential project beneficiaries

8. CONCLUSION SAPARD is a study program Hungary has to make good use of its possibilities Expert system could be financed from „Technical Assistance” EU accession: a hard and time consuming process BUT worth the time and energy