1. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office INDUCTION TRAINING SEIO GENERAL FRAMEWORK CREATED BY THE IPAII REGULATION

2. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office Training Objectives  Overall the training will provide SEIO staff with a basic understanding of EC requirements under EC Regulations for managing IPA II programmes  Specifically, the training will explain:  the hierarchy of strategic documents in planning IPA assistance  standard templates for Sector Planning Documents/ Action Documents  programming options for IPA II

3. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office Hierarchy of Strategic Documents IPA II Regulation / Rules of Application Enlargement Package (EU Enlargement Strategy, SAA, European Partnership, EC Progress Report) Country /Multi-Country Strategy Paper National Sector Programme or (IPA-specific) Sector Planning Document -SPD) Action Documents (ADs) (Draft) Action Programme (AP) Financing Proposal Commission Implementing Decision Financing Agreement Annexed: SPDs Annexed: ADs Annexed: AP

4. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office Programming Terms used in IPA II  Action Programme: A group of Actions which address CSP targets and which are the subject of a Commission Implementing Decision  Action: A coherent set of coordinated activities carried out to meet a defined objective, which have an estimated total cost plus implementation schedule and performance parameters.  Activity: A component of an Action which can be clearly identified by its costs and type of financing (procurement, grant etc.)  Measure: A set of operations contributing to one or more common objectives  Operations: Projects and /or contracts

5. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office There might also be cases where an individual Action Programme is made up of one single Action, particularly where an Action (and therefore the entire Action Programme) focuses on a defined sector (e.g. through Budget Support).

6. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office Proposed Sector Planning Document (SPD) Template

7. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office Sector Planning Document SPD TemplatePurpose Section 1: Sector Description To systematically address the EC criteria for Sector Approach and show that the sector in question is sufficiently mature to adopt a Sector Approach. Also the steps being undertaken to increase sector maturity. Section 2: Sector Programme Rationale To provide justification for the proposed programme to explain the focus of IPA assistance within the whole scope of the sector An overall picture of the problems to be solved with the support of IPA funded sector support. Section 3: Sector Programme Description To describe in detail the proposed programme covering: overall /specific objectives; impact indicators; results; measures & operations; institutional arrangements for implementation. Section 4: Budget To provide an indicative 3-year sector budget based on all sources Section 5: Annexes  Log Frame  Institutional Arrangements  Implementation Schedule To provide inputs for the associated Action Documents

8. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office Sector Planning Document

9. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office SPD: Intervention Logic NAD /CSPSPDAD Overall Objective /Enlargement Strategy Priority /Target Measure Results Overall Objective Specific Objective Overall Objective Specific Objective

10. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office AD Intervention Logic  Intervention logic shows how planned results and specific objectives will be achieved by sector action operations. Overall Objective Specific Objective Result 1Result 2Result 3 Activities Contracts

11. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office SPD: Sequencing Sector Planning Document Action Document Results R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Specific Objective 1 Specific Objective 2 Results 2015 R1 R2 2016 R3 R4 R5 R6 2017 R7 R8

12. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office The Sector Planning Document

13. Project funded by The European Union Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office