Department II 2 of the BMNT is the managing authority of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 and is responsible for the multi-annual financial planning of this programme. In the course of audits in the programme period 2007-2013, the Austrian Court of Audit saw a need for improvement in the preparation of the financial plan. For further development, the BMNT needed accompanying technical support.
The aim of the project was to improve the financial plan of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 through technical optimisation and quality assurance measures. In addition, calculations and analysis options for various agricultural policy scenarios were to be further developed.
In 2016, the automatic allocation of funds to the programme's substantive priorities and priority areas as well as the thematic objectives of the partnership agreement was significantly optimised. This further development was an important quality assurance measure.
Further optimisations of the financial plan and quality assurance measures are to be examined and implemented. In particular, experience from the financial planning of the 2007-2013 programme period and other programmes of the European Structural and Investment Funds (especially ERDF) was used.
Project start: June 2015
Project end: December 2020
