Transcript EU-Programm „Leonardo da Vinci“

LEONARDO DA VINCI
The common programme for
action in the professional
education for the promotion
of the EU education policy
Regierungspräsidium Chemnitz
District Government Board Chemnitz
Project Partner P 7 in the ACC
– Agriculture Advisor´s
Competencies
Agriculture in Saxony modern, competitive, environmetalfriendly, lastingly
Regierungspräsidium Chemnitz, Department of Agriculture
EU-Project A A C
Agriculture Advisor´s Competencies –
Kompetenzbildung landwirtschaftlicher Berater
Project management and partner
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Project management:
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Institute of Agriculture and Food Information, Prag, Czech
Republic
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Project partner:
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Agroinstitut Nitra, Slovakia
The Agricultural Advisory Centre in Brwinow, Poland
Szent Istvan University, Gödölö, Hungary
Educational and Advisory Institute of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development, Budapest, Hungary
Triesdorf Consult GbR, Triesdorf, Bavaria, Germany
Regierungspräsidium Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and
Water Management, Wien, Austria
Content and Tasks
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uniform organisation of an agricultural advice
system
a new concept of the common agricultural policy
shall advance the development of the rural area
and the safeguarding of a multifunctional farming
starting from 2007
member states are obliged to guarantee a piece of
advice on such a scale as of 2007 that the farms
are in the state to make those measures come true
which are connected with the new concept
EU-Project A A C
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from 01.10.2005 to 30.09.2007
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standardization of the professional qualification, the
certificates and the education
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agricultural consultation has taken her own development
in every country and her organisation, form of the
financing and the demands after the relevant competence
of the advisers and their certification in member states is
very different.
member states have to provide services with agricultural
enterprises in the field of the welfare, the food safety and
the correct management -- Cross Compliance, CC. It is
necessary to develop a reliable information system.
Phases
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Phase 1: Study of the agricutural advice
systems (6 month)
– 1. meeting in Prag – Czech Republic (14.-15.11.2005)
– a) presentation of the partner institutes
– b) presentation of the national consultation systems
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Phase 2: Comparison of the existing
consultation systems with requirementas on
advisors (6 month)
– 2. meeting in Nitra – Slovakia (1.-2.6.2006)
– a) presentation of the comparison about the consutation
systems of all project partners
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Phase 3: Evaluation of quality of
advisor´s competencies (6 month)
– 3. meeting in Gödölö – Hungary
– a) presentation
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Phase 4: Dissemination (6
month)
– 4. meeting in Triesdorf – Germany
– a) final report – results and conclusions
Phase 2: Comparison
The national advice system in Saxony
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performing of the 
advice and
financing
(publicly,
privately, mixed
etc.)
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organization of
consultation
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consultation
offers
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Public advice and financing. Partly private
advice suppliers. At investment support since
2004 no more state advice. Advice is made by
private investment attendants. Private advice is
carried out also at certain other services. At the
private investment support the costs as building
additional costs are subsidizable.
Structured organisation. 3-stage administration:
SMUL - RPC – ÄfL (Ministry – District Board Offices for Agriculture) 3 Offices for Rural
Development, each in the region as well as the
LfL. About 200 full-time workers as advisers.
education, environmentally compatible
production, operation economy, building and
machine technology, socio-economy, producer
consumer dialog, production technology. Private
since 2004: Investment support and diet
consultation
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Consultation with 
regard to services:
agricultural
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production, economy,
ecology, rural
development
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Development trend 
of consutation system
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special right: vegetable, animal production,
horticulture, technical questions
Business economic advice: extensive supply
(investment support, bookkeeping analysis,
branch of business evaluation, data
collections and planning)
Advice for the environmentally compatible
farming, for the ecocogic farming as well as
for the accompanying promotional
programmes.
Advice to the rural development by the
Offices for Rural Development. To certain
supports the AfL also advise (country tourism,
LEADER+)
Support and education remains as an
important public task
Production technical advice concentrates on
the compliance with the special laws within
the next years.
Business economic advice concentrates on
needy enterprises.
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Requirements to
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qualification of
advisors (basic and
further education, ...)
Who provides the
basic and further
education of
advisors?
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Which systems of
supporting advisors
exist (software,
internet, information
systems)?
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specialized university or technical college of
higher education degree in an agricultural
field of knowledge.
education of student teachers and common
to candidates with Bavaria.
further education is permanently provided by
the state. (National Training Place
Reinhardtsgrimma and the Saxon Institute of
Agriculture. At present no employment of
applicants from outside of the agricultural
administration. No education of private
consultants by the state.
multiple support. Software mainly of the LfL,
e.g.: Planning database, information portal
soil, strategic management concept, interest
redemption computer, quantity surveyor CAP.
Publications about ongoing projects
(economic and manufacturer's price reports,
performance comparisons, management
documents, ...) web sites of the LfL, the
SMUL, the AfL.
many materials also free of charge over the
Internet for all interested parties (farmers,
private consultants) available.
The national advice system in Saxony with regard
to the advice supply and financing of the
introduction of the CC legislation (CC advice )
present state: March 2006
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How these activities
promoted financially
(national or EU), through
whom the advisers are
financed (State,
different)?
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is provided by Free State of Saxony.
Material and information are provided
to also private consultants.
Priority at CC has the official advice.
involved: 11 National Offices for
Agriculture (ÄfL, leadership),
cooperation at specific questions:
Saxon national Institute of
Agriculture; Environmental Offices,
Food and Veterinary Offices (within
the District Offices).
Methods: individual and group
consultations, study groups, further
education and information events.
The national consultation system in Saxony in
regard to the impementation of EU CR No.
1782/2003 and 1698/2005
The advice is not supported but carried
out publicly in Saxony. The CC consultations must be proved one by
one.
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Are there problems
in organization and
financing of
consultation
activities in regard
to EU CR
1782/2003?
GQS-SN:
whole enterprise
quality safekeeping
system of saxony
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no problems; Financing is protected by national
budget. Farms were informed. Saxon State
Ministry for Environment and Agriculture (SMUL)
provides all advice strengths to interested people
with the system GQS-SN as a basis for the
information and advice activity to CC relevant
contents.
Features: for all farms, authorities, associations,
free multipliers (associations, private advisers),
documentation system, applicable include the
special right as well as the CC requirements,
integrated a quality safeguarding system.
Application voluntary. Internet portal about GQSSN with CC check list, question answer catalogue
etc. permanently is updated. ÄfL count
1782/2003 on the special right during the advice
within the special responsibility, namely upon the
respectively valid basic requirements after
appendix IV of the CR (EU) as well as the
renewed Fertilize Regulation. The ÄfL must
secure that the farmers also are informed of CC
relevant contents sufficiently these are not part
in the special responsibility of their own. The
responsible authorities must be included during
consultations and information events.
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Are fears in the application of the
article 25 of the EU CR
1698/2005 on the promotion of
the rural development by the
European fund for rural
development in a relation on the
organisation and financing of the
advice activities?
Is the respective reorganisation
prepared?
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No competitive promoting
facts of the matter exist in
the responsibility area of the
SMUL at present. The future
promoting strategy also does
not let expect any problems.
Administration internal
regulations (see CC). Free
offer for farmer. (Financing
about national budget).
Advice activity is not
reorganized generally but
furthermore run through the
official advice system.
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How are the
suggestions
realized in national
programmes
according to the
requirements of
the CC legislation?
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No promotional measure planned.
Realization measures: GQS-SN, CC check
list, question answer catalogue, internet
portal of the SMUL. Everything public for
everybody accessible. Private consultants
also can be using. Advice management is
not promoted for private suppliers but an
indirect support by the subsidized
appropriation of technical documents.
Receive advice free of charge (indirect
support) from the state jobs. The same
chances for all farmers also for small
enterprises and in second occupation.
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The National Training Place
Reinhardtsgrimma leads
trainings to GQS-SN, CC
requirements, innovations in the
special right for the public
employees of the line of
business of the SMUL
(administration internal) and 1
information event offers for free
multipliers (associations, private
advisers) to the thematic area
CC every year. (GQS-SN is € 35,
other materials free).
Correctness of the state advice
performance is ordered by
instructions, coordination/control
and testing in the special
supervision and work
supervision.
Thank you for your attention.