State of play of the financial implementation of the EMFF

• Author: Violaine Romieu - Tanguy Chever - Bruno Bordeau - Safa Souidi
• Pages: 39-60

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4. STATE OF PLAY OF THE FINANCIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EMFF

4.1. Introduction

This section provides details on the state of play of the EMFF implementation at national and OR

levels (task 2 from the ToR). For each MS, we provide an overview of commitment, payment at

national level (France, Portugal and Spain) and details for each OR on commitment, payment and

number of proj ects by priority and measure. Thi s section also provides an overview of the

beneficiaries of the EMFF in each OR, and an analysis of whether the beneficiaries from the

compensation regime are the same as for the other measures (task 3 from the ToR). A detailed

analysis of beneficiaries of CPAC is provided in section 5.

In the following section, the state of implementation of the EMFF is detailed by priority. These

priorities are as follows:

 Priority 1: promoting environmentally sustainable, resource –efficient, innovative, competitive

and knowledge–based fisheries,

 Priority 2: fostering environmentally sustainable, resource-efficient, innovati ve, competitive

and knowledge-based aquaculture,

 Priority 3: fostering the implementation of the Common Fisheries Pol icy (CFP),

 Priority 4: increasing employment and territorial cohesion (community-led local

development (CLLD)),

 Priority 5: fostering marketing and processing (compensation plans are inclu ded in this

priority), this priority includes CPAC,

 Priority 6: fostering the implementation of the integrated maritime p olicy (IMP),

 Priority 7: technical assistance (TA).

4.2. France

4.2.1. Overview at national level

National level

The total OP budget for France is k€774.353 for the 2014-2020 period (mainland plus ORs). The

EMFF contribution represents k€587 980. The following table presents an overview of the EMFF

committed and paid per priority for operations from 2014 to November 2018.

Table 12: Overview of the state of play of EMFF implementation in France per priority in

k€

Priority

EMFF

budget

Number of

operations

committed

EMFF

support

committed

National

contribution

committed

EMFF

eligible

paid

Committed

rate64

Payment

rate65

P1

150 941

218

17 529

5 455

7 016

12%

5%

P2

88 790

511

35 810

12 346

16 893

40%

19%

P3

122 279

54

47 019

10 597

22 701

38%

19%

P4

22 581

71

1 941

1 911

409

9%

2%

P5

163 236

355

43 629

4 364

38 183

27%

23%

P6

5 335

2

260

30 098

0

5%

0%

P7 (TA)

34 818

4

7 430

2 477

2 338

21%

7%

TOTAL

587 980

1 215

153 617

37 181

87 541

26%

15%

Source: own elaboration based on OSIRIS extract of 09/11/2018.

64 Committed rate: EMFF support committed /EMFF budget

65 Payment rate: EMFF eligible paid / EMFF budget

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Note: In France the total TA budget (k€ 34 818 EMFF budget) is split between regional and national

measures. The regional TA budget for French ORs (GUF, MTQ, GDP) reaches k€ 3 200, which

represents 9% of th e total TA budget and represents 18% of the regional TA budget. RUN, MYT and

MAF have to apply to national budget for TA.

First payments in ORs occurred in March 2017.

1 215 operations have been commi tted to in November 2018, for 27 measures. France has

committed €153 milli on of EMFF budget which represents a commitment rate of 26% (%

commitment/EMFF budget). The total EMFF payment reaches k€87 541 which represents a payment

rate of 15% (% EMFF paid/EMFF budget).

As detailed in annexe 6, the most advanced and significant measures in terms of EMFF budget

(>k€50 000), commitment and payment are:

 Measure 77 (data collection) with a commitment rate of 51% and paym ent rate of 30%

 Measure 48 (productive i nvestment in aquaculture) with a payment rate 48% and a payment

rate of 30%

 Measure 70 (compensation plan for additional costs i n OR) with a commitment rate of 36%

and a payment rate of 33%

 Measure 31 (business start-up aid for young fishermen) with a commitment rate of 33% and

a payment rate of 29%

 Measure 47 (innovation in aquaculture) with a commitment rate of 59% and a payment rate

of 2% only

Outermost regions

The EMFF bu dget for regional measures in ORs accounts for 22% of the total EMFF budget for

France and 9% of the EMFF budget for France without the compensation regime (k€131 235

allocated for regional measure in French ORs, including k€86 450 for compensation plans). Indeed,

compensation plans account for 66% of the regional EMFF budget for ORs, followed by priority 1

(18%), priorities 2 and 5 (7% each), priority 7 (2%) and pri ority 4 (1%).

The budget for compensation plan is not pre-allocated by OR. This impl ementation choice aims to

optimise the consumption of the budget. Budget allocation in La Réunion accounts for 27% of total

allocation for ORs (CPAC not included), Martinique for 24%, Guadeloupe 22%, French Guiana 18%,

Mayotte 7% and Saint-Marti n 2%. The following table presents the EMFF budget for 2014-2020 for

all French ORs.

Table 13: EMFF budget for regional measure in French ORs fo r 2014-2020 in k€

Priority

EMFF

budget

FR1

EMFF

budget

OR2

%OR on

EMFF

for

France

MAF

GLP

MTQ

GUF

MYT

RUN

P1

150 941

23 042

15%

360

5 493

7 274

2 362

1 195

6 358

P2

88 790

8 745

10%

200

1 500

1 500

1 800

854

2 892

P3

122 279

0

0%

0

0

0

0

0

0

P4

22 581

709

3%

209

500

0

0

0

0

P5 - without

CPAC

76 786

9 084

12%

0

1 400

1 000

3 000

1 000

2 684

P5 - CPAC only

86 450

86 450

100%

0

0

0

0

0

0

P6

5 335

0

0%

0

0

0

0

0

0

P7 (TA)

34 818

3 205

9%

0

1 086

1 140

979

0

0

TOTAL

587 980

131 235

22%

769

9 979

10 914

8 141

3 049

11 933

TOTAL

without CPAC

501 530

44 785

9%

769

9 979

10 914

8 141

3 049

11 933

% by OR

/

100%

/

2%

22%

24%

18%

7%

27%

1: national measures plus regional measures

2: regional measures