IPA Instrument for Preaccession Assistance

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IPA Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance

• New generation pre-accession instrument
• simplified replaces 5 former pre-accession
  instruments
• flexible tailor made assistance for
  progressive alignment with standards and policies
  of the EU
• Legal Basis
• IPA Council Regulation (No 1085/2006 of 17 July
  2006) established IPA
• IPA Commission Implementing Regulation (No
  718/2007 of 12 June 2007) spells in detail the
  implementation process

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Scope of IPA

• Western Balkans and Turkey
• in other words
• Potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and
  Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under
  UNSCR1244/99
• Candidates Croatia, Turkey and the former
  Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Lifetime 2007 2013
• Budget 11.5 billion euro
• 5 Components that replace 5 Instruments Phare,
  CARDS, ISPA, Sapard and Turkey pre-accession
  assistance

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IPA 5 components

• For Candidates and Potential candidates
• Component I - Transition Assistance and
  Institution Building
• Component II - Cross-Border Co-operation
• For Candidate countries only
• Component III - Regional Development (DG Regio)
• Component IV - Human Resources Development (DG
  Empl)
• Component V - Rural Development (DG Agri)

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IPA How does it work?

• MIFF Multi-annual Indicative Financial
  Framework
• Political and Financial Framework
• per country and per component
• 3year rolling forward
• MIPD Multi-annual Indicative Planning Documents
• Tailor made for each country
• Cover all components
• 3year rolling forward
• Annual/multi-annual programming documents

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3level implementation framework flowchart
Candidates

ENLARGEMENT PACKAGE, including Multi-annual
Indicative Financial Framework (MIFF) by country
and by component
Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document by
country for all relevant components
Comp. I
Comp. II
Comp. III
Comp. IV
Comp. V
National and Horizontal Programmes
Crossborder Programmes
Operational Programmes/ Large project
Operational Programme
Rural Development Programme
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MIFF
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Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document - MIPD

• Countrybased
• Covers all components
• Prepared by the Commission, in close consultation
  with the beneficiary country and the relevant
  stakeholders
• Reflects Regular Reports, negotiations and
  Accession/European Partnership
• Priorities to be coherent with national
  territorial/sectoral strategies
• There is also a Multi-beneficiary MIPD

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IPA Programmes

• 3rd level of the IPA implementation
• Detailed annual or multi-annual programming
  documents, depending on the component
• Programmes established per component by the
  beneficiary country and submitted to the
  Commission
• Multi-Beneficiary Programme for all IPA
  beneficiaries but only under component I and
  established in co-operation with the
  beneficiaries via in particular the Regional
  Co-operation Council (RCC)

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IPA - 4 management types

• Decentralised Management tendering and
  contracting - the beneficiary country
• Centralised Management tendering and contracting
  - the Commission/EC Delegation
• Shared Management only for Component II, CBC
  programmes between beneficiary countries and
  their MS neighbours
• Joint Management certain implementing tasks are
  delegated to International Organisations

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Programming Component I

• National Multi-beneficiary annual programme
• Prepared by national authorities
  (Multi-beneficiary by EC i.c. with Regional
  Co-operation Council RCC)
• Approved by the Commission
• Implementation (tendering and contracting)
• National Programmes
• National authorities (DIS Turkey and Croatia)
• EC Delegation
• Multi-beneficiary Programmes
• European Commission HQ

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Programming Component II

• Multiannual Joint crossborder programmes
• Jointly prepared by national authorities
• Approved by the Commission
• Implementation (tendering and contracting)
• Member States (shared management) for CBC at EU
  external borders
• National authorities (Decentralised management)
  and EC Delegation (Centralised management)

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Programming Component III, IV, V (candidate
countries)

• Multiannual operational programmes
• Prepared by national authorities
• Approved by the Commission
• Implementation (tendering and contracting)
• National authorities (Decentralised management
  required Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic of
  Macedonia, Turkey)

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IPA web links

• DG Enlargement, financial assistance
• http//ec.europa.eu/enlargement/how-does-it-work/f
  inancial-assistance/index_en.htm
• EC Delegations in Candidate/potential Candidates
• http//ec.europa.eu/enlargement/press_corner/links
  _en.htm
• Tenders and Call for Proposals
• https//webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-serv
  ices/index.cfm?ADSSChck1224846858672dopubli.wel
  comeuserlanguageen