Identification of potential changes to transparency requirements
Author | Michie, Rona; Wishlade, Fiona; Mendez, Carlos |
Pages | 31-37 |
Fact-finding studyon the GBERtransparency re quirement
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4.IDENTIFICATION OFPOTENTIAL CHANGES TOTRANSPARENCY REQUIRE MENTS
One of the aims of the study is to identify possible changes to the transparency requirements that
would facilitate compliance. This was addressed through semi-structured interviews with
stakeholders in selected countries.17These were to include the three countries that do not use
TAM (Spain, Poland and Romania) and up to five further countries selected to take account of:
•the results of the analysis undertaken
•geographical representativeness – north/south – east/west
•EU joining date (EU15 / post 2004 MemberStates)
•Total volume of granted aid.
The research undertaken suggests that countries fall into one of six transparency models (see
Figure 1). For the purposes of the case studies, the following grouping can be applied:
•Type I – awarding bodies (generally) encode in TAM dir ectly(comprising Models 1 and 2
in Figure 1)
•TypeII –State aid units encode in TAM(comprising Models 3, 4 and 5 in Figure 1)
•TypeIII -a nationalState aid register operates insteadof TA M: (Model 6 in Figure 1).
In terms of expenditure, State aid as a percentage of GDP can usefully identify key areas of focus
(see Figure 19), though absolute spend is also relevant.
Taking these four elementsinto account, the following countries were proposed as case studies.
Figure 18: Case study countries and characteristics
TypeEU15/EU13Geography
Spend (% of
GDP)
Czech Republic
I
New
East
High
Germany
I
Old
West
High
Netherlands
I
Old
North
Low
Estonia
II
New
North
Medium
Italy
II
Old
South
Low
Spain
III
Old
South
Low
Poland
III
New
East
Medium
Romania
III
New
East
Medium
17The ‘framework’ questionnaire is a ppendixed to this report. This was adapted as required by specific national
characteristics (such as whether a national r egister exists).
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