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Agricultural production management employing gis techniques - introducing IACS and LPIS

Under Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 the EU may finance only those aids which are paid to the Member States through the Accredited Paying Agency. Before getting access to the Structural Funds (SAPARD), and before joining the European Union, Croatia has to ensure the establishment and national accreditation of the Paying Agency, as well as its accreditation by the European Commission. All Member States are required to put the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) in place for application to aid models. The Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) should be introduced on the basis of map s or land registry documents or other cartographic references. Use should be made of a computerised Geographical Information System (GIS), including preferably aerial or spatial orthoimagery. The Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management (MAFWM) should choose the most suitable country-specific approach while taking into account the experiences of the European countries. Three approaches are possible when it comes to establishing the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) (based on agricultural parcels, based on cadastral data, based on common land units ) plus the I10t system which combines a certain number of adjacent agricultural parcels of the same type of use). The analysis carried out in the present document finds the EU recommendations correct. After reviewing the existing and planned status of required sources in Croatia, LPIS should be created by establishing an agriculturai reference system based on common land units. The common land units system would be the most practical and inexpensive for Croatia (usable in keeping records of all types of surfaces, establishing records on one-time basis, with land declaration and control being simple and economical). Fragmented agriculturai land is much easier to handIe within a common land units system. The system should be built upon recent aerial colour photographs taken in the shortest possible time to ensure equal interpretation conditions. It is a centralised system where the processing power and data storing are concentrated in a centre, so sufficiently smooth communication links should be provided from each local office to the centre. It is also necessary to provide training for a number of specialised staff, beginning with administrators as most advanced users to clerical assistants as end users, for work with GIS. INTRODUCTION Obligation to establish the Paying Agency Council Regulation (EC) No 125811999 lays down the principles of the financing of the Common Agrieultural Policy for a period from 2000 to 2006 in the EU Member States through the EAGGF, a fund eonsisting of two sections: Guarantee and Guidance. The Guarantee section of the fund is used for finaneing: export subsidies, publie storage costs as well as market interventions, direet payments and some rural development measures. The Guidance section of the Fund is used to finance certain rural development measures not ineluded in the (iuarantee section of the Fund. Under the New Regulation, adopted for the ne\\ financial period 2007-2013, the earlier European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) has been transformed into the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agriculturai Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) . Council Regulation (EC) No 125811999 stipulates that the EU may finance only expenditure effect d by paying agencies aecredited by the Member States (accreditation conditions are laid down in Commission Regulation No 166311995). Under the said Regulation, the Paying Agency is to be a body of the Member State, which, as regards payments in the are as for which it is responsible, offers a guarantee that th admissibility of claims and complianee with Community rules are checked before payment is authorised, tha the payments effected are correctly and fully recorded in the accounts and that the necessary documents ar submitted within the time and in the forrn laid down in Community rules. In conclusion, before using th Structural Funds (SAPARD to be sueceeded by IPARD in autumn this year), and indeed before joining th EU membership, the Republic of Croatia is expected to have the Paying Agency established and accredited at nationallevel, as well as accredited by the European Commission.

agriculture; GIS; IACS; LPIS

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