Примери за използване на Gap assessments на Английски и техните преводи на Български
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The gap assessments should obviously have an adequate level of quality.
At that time in certain regions/countries the gap assessments and strategies did not exist.
As mentioned in paragraph 32, Member States were not obliged to undertake SME gap assessments.
An independent review of the quality of the gap assessments and of their underlying process did not take place.
However, in the 2007- 13 programming period, there are significant shortcomings in the quality of the gap assessments.
Although all EIF gap assessments followed a standard methodology(i.e. a common template), they markedly showed uneven levels of quality.
Although 1,60 billion euro had been spent on SME financial engineering measures, gap assessments were neither mandatory, nor recommended by the Commission.
In other cases, the gap assessments were largely ignored in the context of the implementation of the operational programmes(e.g. Andalusia, Hungary).
However, the Commission, aware of their usefulness,decided in partnership with the EIF to co-finance gap assessments carried out at the request of Member States and free of charge19.
The gap assessments were carried out by the EIF, the EU body with special expertise and responsibility in implementing EU budget support to enterprises through financial instruments.
For the 2007- 13 programming period, there are no specific legal requirements for the existence and the use of SME financing gap assessments at operational programme level.
In none of the cases reviewed did the EIF gap assessments establish a link with the ERDF operational programmes they were pertaining to.
The audit work at the EIF concerned two of the three kinds of services it delivered in the context of ERDFfinancial engineering measures for SMEs: preparing SME financing gap assessments and acting as a holding fund.
Between 2006 and 2009,the EIF prepared 55 gap assessments at the optional request of 20 Member States, out of which 18 were reviewed during the audit.
For instance, in the case of‘recast of the secondary legislation related to recovery, repayment and remission of customs duty' and‘needs analysis concerning the customs enforcement of intellectual property rights',the authorities reported that the gap assessments of the Turkish legislation had been completed and agreed.
Furthermore, calls on Member States to perform gap assessments and market analyses prior to setting up the schemes in order to optimise the benefits of the YEI;
As a result, when subsequent framework agreements(between Member States and holding fund managers) had to be negotiated, considerable operational programme constraints(e.g. allocation between different types of instruments, territorial constraints, monitoring and reporting requirements),not addressed in the gap assessments, resurfaced.
The gap assessments were carried out by the EIF, the body of the EU with special expertise and responsibility in implementing EU budget support to enterprises, thus an independent assessment was not deemed necessary.
During the 2007- 13 programming period, where they existed, all SME gap assessments concluded that there was a need for public sector intervention in various forms and they quantified the SME financing gap. .
The gap assessments prepared by the EIF were conducted independently from the operational programme process, often subject to delays and leading to a sub-optimal fund allocation from operational programme measures to financial instruments.
The same regulation foresees that Member States may involve the EIF in the implementation of financial engineering instruments in three different ways: ο preparing evaluations,i.e. the SME financing gap assessments; ο acting as a holding fund; this is currently the case for eight Member States and three regions11; ο acting as an adviser to national or regional authorities.
Apart from the gap assessments concerning audited Member States, additional gap assessments made for Spain, France andPoland were reviewed, as these three Member States represented the bulk of the gap assessments.
The Court examined the quality of the gap assessments and, in particular, whether the gap assessments:(a) identified and quantified a need for public sector action in favour of financial engineering measures for SMEs;(b) were linked with the related operational programmes;(c) were made available sufficiently in advance to all stakeholders concerned.
However, a funding gap assessment was not carried out for this project.
However, the Court identified the EIF's gap assessment for Sweden as good practice and used it as a benchmark(see Box 1).
The funding gap assessment justifying this ERDF grant was limited only to the costs and revenues from this second phase.
Ex ante evaluations, as foreseen by the Structural Funds regulations18, did not include a proper SME financing gap assessment.
For instance, in Portugal, SME schemes were funded without any preceding gap assessment, whilst in Germany(regions of Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia), the assessments made were not specific and their actual use by the relevant bodies is uncertain.
Each gap assessment was provided to the managing authority concerned and to the respective services of the Commission to be taken account in programming of cohesion policy resources and in the identification and selection of operations to be funded.
However, for the remaining nine projects, no funding gap assessment was carried out even though the projects will generate revenues from the sale or rental of redeveloped plots and buildings(see Box 7).