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The eFarmer ProjectFarmer Communication Services for CAP

Tibor SutóriseFarmer project manager

Novitech Plc, Slovakia [email protected]

Phone: +00421-55-3274111


Administrative Project details

Contract No. EDC 11221 - 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 : 1th January 2005

Total budget : € 3.739.711EC contribution : € 1.899.602


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


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).


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


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)


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


Communication model between EC and Farmers

Country - 1

1259/1999

DG AGRI

EC

Country - 2EC regulations

Publisher of regulations

JRC

MARS Unit

National regulations

AccreditationsA1..A25 IACS Processing

Feedback

FarmersRural Payment Agencies


The eFarmer Service Model

Internet

ServicesPayments 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)

PaymentAgency


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


Results within countries

Hungary

Electronic Content creation 165 documents in national language 86 documents from general CAP More documents can be found on www.eFarmer.net 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



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



Monthly portal visitors [www.efarmer.hu] during year 2006

Statistics provided by NAJ.sk

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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



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





Monthly portal visitors [www.efarmer.sk] during year 2006


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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.




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





Monthly portal visitors [www.efarmer.pl] during year 2006


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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.




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





Monthly portal visitors [www.efarmer.cz] during year 2006


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eFarmer portal – main V4 page


eFarmer portal – main HU page


eFarmer portal – choosing an appropriate scheme


eFarmer portal – Claim completion


eFarmer portal – scheme assistant


eFarmer portal – Content


eFarmer portal - eLearning


Thank you for your attention!

Contact:

Tibor Sutóris – project managere-mail: [email protected]