Question 14680 — European Union

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Mr. Fabien Gouttefarde alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the problems of management of European Leader funds. The management of European Leader funds, dedicated to the development of rural territories with an envelope of 700 million euros allocated over the period 2014-2020, has been entrusted to the regions. Of this sum, only 10 million euros have been paid, and around 70 million euros programmed for the period 2014-2020. The French payment rate is, to date, around 2.2%, placing France in 27th place, out of 28 Member States, on this criterion. The transfer of management authority to the regions undergoing reorganization following their merger seems to be a major factor in this enormous and detrimental delay incurred by France, but not only that: poor organization, overprotection, disagreement with the State are also to its credit. He It seems that these poor results are also attributable to blockages caused by the Osiris software, software that was proven during the previous Leader 2007-2013 programming period. Due to a lack of programming and instruction by the regions, the risk of automatic release, and therefore of losing a good part of the 700 million euros allocated to the French Leader program, is real. For example, and to his knowledge, only 18 709 euros of the 10,000,000 euros allocated in the Upper Normandy Rural Development Program had been paid as of November 5, 2018, a sum far removed from the 2018 automatic release threshold set at 1,668,572 euros. In the event of automatic release, rural areas would then be the first victims of the serious dysfunctions of the State-region duo, at the same time casting doubt among rural project leaders as to the Europe's ability to act locally. An automatic release would also be seriously detrimental to the implementation of the upcoming 2020-2027 programming. He would therefore like to know his intentions on these questions.

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