Technical Assistance
SourceIntermediate Evaluation
The budget of Axis 5 comes up to 67.8 m€. Until 31/12/2003, the invitations covered 100% of the budget of the Measures of the Axis. Until 31/12/2003, the integrations covered all the Measures of the Axis and came up to 30 m € or a percentage of 44.2% of the budget of the Axis.
| Financial Scope |
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Until 31/12/2003, the contracts were limited to 16.5 m€ or a percentage of 24.3% of the budget of the Axis, while the expenditure were even more limited to 7.1 m€ or a percentage of 10.5% of the budget of the Axis.
THE STATUS OF THE AXIS ON 31/12/2003
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Axis/ Measure
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Budget
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Invitations
(%)
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Integrations
(%)
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Contracts
(%)
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Expenditure
(%)
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Μ€
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%
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Axis 5. Technical assistance (% of the budget)
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67,8
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100
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100
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44,2
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24,3
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10,5
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Measure 5.1. Management, application and monitoring
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25,3
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37,3
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100
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7,7
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2,7
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1,7
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Measure 5.2. Technical Assistance, ESF
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21,7
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32,0
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100
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52,0
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11,6
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5,4
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Measure 5.3. Technical Assistance, ERDF
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20,7
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30,7
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100
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80,8
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64,1
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26,6
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Among the measures of the Axis, Measure 5.3 “Technical Assistance, ERDF” has the best status. Its budget covers a percentage of 30.7% of the total budget of the Axis. Until 31/12/2003, the integrations reached a percentage of 80.8% of the budget of the Measure. The invitations fully covered the budget of the Measure.
Measure 5.2 “Technical Assistance, ESF” follows. Its budget covered a percentage of 32% of the total budget of the Axis with integrations reaching a percentage 52% of the budget of the Measure, until 31/12/2003. Furthermore, the invitations fully covered the budget of the Measure.
Measure 5.1 “Management, Application and Monitoring” follows with a considerable difference. Its budget covers a percentage of 25.3% of the total budget of the Axis. Until 31/12/2003, the integrations were limited to a percentage of 7.7% of the budget of the Measure. The invitations also fully covered the budget of the Measure.
The role of the Technical Assistance of the Operational Programme is multiple and covers the following categories of actions:
- Support actions for potential Ultimate Beneficiaries with maturity studies, expertise and consultants to the General Secretariats (Measure 5.2)
- Support of the Ultimate Beneficiaries during the implementation of the approved physical scope (Measure 5.2, for the ESF, and Measure 5.3, for the ERDF)
- Support for the operation of the support structures of the Operational Programme (Monitoring Committee, Special Management Service, Information Society SA, Observatory)
The support of the Information Society SA and the Observatory is implemented through Measure 5.3, while the Special Management Service is mainly covered by the Management Organisation Unit SA and secondarily by Measure 5.1. The limited activation of Measure 5.1 is partly due to the fact that the Management Organisation Unit covers to a great extent the needs for technical Assistance of the Special Management Service.
The National Technical Assistance functions complementary to the Technical Assistance of the Operational Programme. Requests concerning the support of the Monitoring Committee (e.g. organisation of conferences) are not selectable by the Operational Programme and, thus, the resources come from the National Technical Assistance. The National Technical Assistance also covers the payments of the work groups and committees as well as the evaluators that were not selected by the Evaluators Register.
| Physical Scope |
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The status of the Operational Programme on 31/12/2003 as regards the activation and realization of the physical scope for the outflow and the results is briefly presented in the following tables.
OUTFLOW OF THE AXIS ON 31/12/2003 ACHIEVEMENT AND ACTIVATION OF OBJECTIVES
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Measure 5.1 Management, Application and Monitoring
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Index
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Basic Price
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Objective
31/12/06
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Objective activation 31/12/06
%
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Objective achievement 31/12/06
%
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Studies - expertise
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0
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1.000
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1,40%
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0,10%
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Consultants’ services
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0
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30
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10,00%
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10,00%
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Measure 5.2 Technical Assistance, ESF
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Index
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Basic Price
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Objective 31/12/06
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Objective activation 31/12/06
%
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Objective achievement 31/12/06
%
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Studies – expertise
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0
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80
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60,00%
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20,00%
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Number of thematic scopes that will be covered by training
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0
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50
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80,00%
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0,00%
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% of the publicity actions implementation
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0
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100%
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100,00%
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0,00%
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Consultants’ services
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30
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53,33%
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0,00%
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Measure 5.3 Technical Assistance ERDF
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Index
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Basic Price
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Objective
31/12/06
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Objective activation 31/12/06
%
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Objective achievement 31/12/06 %
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Number of support structures that are created
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0
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2
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150,00%
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50,00%
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Number of support actions
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0
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250
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96,00%
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96,80%
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Number of support studies
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0
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100
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380,00%
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12,00%
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Consultants’ services
|
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20
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40,00%
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5,00%
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Creation of communication hubs for the provision of information for the public
|
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3
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33,33%
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0,00%
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Measure 5.1 shows a small activation of the outflow indices at percentages 10% for the Consultants’ Services and only 1.4% for the Studies – expertise. In Measure 5.2 there is activation of all the outflow indices, while for the Studies –expertise an implementation of the objective at a percentage 20% is also noted. Measure 5.3 shows increased percentages for the activation and achievement of the 2006 objective for the majority of the outflow indices.
For Measure 5.1, the result index “Percentage of on-site audits for the total of integrated projects (in financial value)” cannot be evaluated at this stage, but it is useful for the further monitoring of the Operational Programme. All the result indices in Measure 5.2 show full activation, while the percentages of achieving the objective are zero. There are increased percentages of activation and achieving the objective in Measure 5.3 for the result indices “Actions that are monitored” and “Percentage of bodies supported by the Information Society SA” and they come up to 50% and 80% respectively, but the respective achievement percentages are still zero.
RESULTS OF THE AXIS ON 31/12/2003
ACHIEVEMENT AND ACTIVATION OF OBJECTIVES
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Measure 5.1 Management, Application and Monitoring
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Index
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Basic Price
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Objective
31/12/06
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Objective activation 31/12/06
%
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Objective achievement 31/12/06
%
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Percentage of on-site audits on the total of the integrated projects (in financial value)
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100,00%
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|
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Measure 5.2 Technical Assistance, ESF
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Index
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Basic Price
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Objective 31/12/06
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Objective activation 31/12/06
%
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Objective achievement 31/12/06
%
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Updating of categories of ultimate beneficiaries
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0
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100%
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100,00%
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0,00%
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Coverage of the updating of the groups of the public opinion (communication objective b) which are anticipated in the Communication Action Plan of the project complement
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100%
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100,00%
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0,00%
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Updating of ultimate beneficiaries and recipients – Coverage of targeted public
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0
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100%
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100,00%
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0,00%
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Support of ultimate beneficiaries
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0
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100%
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100,00%
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0,00%
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Measure 5.3 Technical Assistance ERDF
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Index
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Basic Price
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Objective
31/12/06
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Objective activation 31/12/06
%
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Objective achievement 31/12/06
%
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Actions that are monitored
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0%
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100%
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50,00%
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0,00%
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Percentage of bodies supported by the Information Society SA.
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0%
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100%
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80,00%
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0,00%
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| Conclusions – Proposals |
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The operation of the Observatory for the Information Society must be a priority for the Technical Assistance as well as the financing of the ultimate beneficiaries for preparation and maturity actions for the projects. The resent research of the beneficiaries for Technical Assistance is a positive step towards this direction (against the Information Society being the exclusive beneficiary).
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