'Gold-Plating' in the EAFRD - To What Extent Do National Rules Unnecessarily Add to Complexity and, as a Result, Increase the Risk of Errors?
'Gold-plating' refers to obligations that go beyond EU requirements: an excess of norms, guidelines and procedures accumulated at national, regional and local levels interfering with the expected policy goals. A broad range of gold-plating issues have been identified in the EAFRD, related above all to eligibility and agri-environmental commitments, but also to payment issues, controls and procurement rules set at the RDPs level. Goldplating and related errors can be addressed by capacity building, coordination and cooperation between all actors involved.
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Matteo BOCCI, Jan Maarten DE VET and Andreas PAUER (Ecorys Brussels NV), in collaboration with Roland BLOMEYER and Antonio SANZ (Blomeyer & Sanz) and Elena SARACENO (independent consultant)
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- accounting
- administrative formalities
- administrative procedure
- Austria
- budget
- Bulgaria
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- cooperation policy
- EAFRD
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- EU finance
- Europe
- EUROPEAN UNION
- executive power and public service
- FINANCE
- financial control
- financial regulation
- GEOGRAPHY
- governance
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Italy
- management accounting
- political geography
- POLITICS
- Portugal
- public finance and budget policy
- regions and regional policy
- rural development
- Spain
- terms for aid