Consulting Services

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, Republic of Macedonia

The object of the contract were consultations about Farm Register Design for the purpose of implementing IACS according to EU regulations in MAFWE, Macedonia. To ensure that the system will be scalable and easy to integrate with the other information systems in the sector, expert consultations were needed.

The intention of MAFWE is to set up an integrated administrative register of agricultural holdings as an umbrella register over all other administrative registers and closely linked to the statistical register of the Statistical Office. The register shall carry the information important for effective decision making and implementation of direct payments policies and schemes. The farm register will form the basis for managing national and EU support schemes (IPARD and after accession EU support payments. The main purpose of the integrated farm register is to link and thus unify all registers by setting a unique farm identification number. The register will provide additional data (in addition to agricultural statistics, FADN, AMIS etc.) for policy analysis and planning.