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The Preparation of the OP‘s2007 – 2013 – a good opportunity

to avoid red tape!

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Impact of Red Tape on:

• Effectivity

• Efficiency

• Attractivity

Influence on

• Publicity

• Additionality

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Red Tape in Practice

• Administration– Guidelines– Regulations

• Project Promoters

• Monitoring and Reporting

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Results in the public administration

• Double work (at least)

• Overload of information

• Stop of payments

• N+2 losses

• Demotivation of staff

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Results at project level:

• Only managable by „bigger“ organisations

• Overload of „work“ compared to the results

Influence on

• Image

• Selection of project promoters

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Red tape in monitoring

• Ambitious but not realistic

• Not co-ordinated

• Late in place

• Overload with evaluation

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Solutions for the Public Administration

• Reduce the number of Intermediate Bodys

• Less instruments …

• Stable structures …

• Investment in human capital

More space in the General Regulation

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Solutions at project level:• Less project types• Easy to manage and to monitor• Capped/limited commitments

Examples:• Vocational training vouchers • Consulting products• Local social capital

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Solutions for Monitoring

Make monitoring simple for PP and PA

• Monitoring is not evaluation!

• Concentration on the necessary (-80%)

• Connect financial and physical monitoring!

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Conclusion:The start of the next programming period is a good opportunity to– simplify monitoring, reporting and evaluation for

project and programme manager– concentrate on less and more efficient instruments– increase transparency right from the start.

Communication is crucial!!!