The process of submitting IACS 2024 declarations is still a problem, because only a few days until the date of September 12, 2024, set by OPEKEPE, 200,000 remain to complete their collection. In addition to the suffering of the farmers, a great problem has been created with the operation of the Confirmation Reception Centers (DRCs), because for a long time, which is twice as much as in previous years, they are working at a heavy cost, without completing the project.
Based on this unprecedented situation and the damage they have suffered under the burden of OPEKEPE and its administration, Cooperatives and other KYD are resorting to legal actions, firstly suing or -judicial to the Group to obtain compensation for the costs and damages they incur without cause. suffered.
They are also appealing to the additional court after the last sms from OPEKEPE regarding the deadline for submitting the IAS 2024 notices and the audit concessions that OPEKEPE wants from the KYD to get only a protocol. Apart from the fact that this action, due to the way OPEKEPE works, could leave farmers out of support, but also make the KYD responsible by transferring the responsibility to them.
However, as everything shows, it is impossible to complete the process of submitting IACS 2024 declarations within the deadline set by OPEKEPE , ie September 12, 2024.
What is mentioned in the court in addition
During the current period of the year 2024, the platform was opened on April 1, 2024, but only for individual representatives to submit the IAS 2024 declarations and not for the KYD, for which and the opposite of what happened in previous years, the platform above. for submitting IASC declarations for the year 2024, opened with a long delay of 3.5 months (105 days) and specifically only on 15 July 2024.
“This delay of 3.5 months is due to the sole responsibility of your organization. Not only that, but as we found out, you removed a fully functional platform from the government cloud, replacing it with an old one that we used 10 years ago, which is still or – active today, making our work even more difficult. And to understand the difference, an experienced user used to get 30-35 requests per day in previous years and with the platform you gave us access to on July 15th he can’t get more than 5 and they are incomplete,” said the court.
“Although twice as much time has passed compared to last year’s time, ie 5.5 months (165 days) against the usual 75-80 days per year, only 1/3 of the project has been completed implemented and we don’t know what time it is. because until applications appear in the system, you have passed major tasks, such as submitting supporting documents and the ecological schemes that you ask us to process in the subsequent stages, imposing excessive costs on us, as it will be necessary to invite the representative again and present it to the KYD to complete the statement, thus causing us irreparable financial loss” , it is noted.
Parallel problems
It is worth noting that the above delays are not the only reason for imposing disproportionate costs on KYD and producers for submitting IACS 2024 declarations. quality software, recommended and was chosen by OPEKEPE after an unjustified delay, in conjunction with the concessions from the insurance check valves at the time of installation, which the system had until today and especially during work in the gov in the previous two years and in particular:
I. Several controls, such as the mandatory pre-completed link of a series of documents to register the payment of linked and green aid have been removed
II. Removing hundreds of thousands of grazing parcels from previous years’ allocations has a double negative effect. There appear to be many overlaps, and it will take undue time and effort to correct them, as well as the re-emergence of a new wave of grazing rangers to allocate support through the national reserve, who will be responsible for the overall operation of the KYD. .
III. Incomplete or incomplete applications will create serious problems and significantly delay the implementation of an investigation, as well as the first revisions for debugging applications and their correction by KYD and representatives.
IV. This delay ultimately leads to long delays in payments to the beneficiaries, resulting in a series of financial obligations of representatives to the cooperative organizations and their banks not being serviced and pay
We could not complete the submission of IASC declarations
“It is evident that it is impossible to complete the process of submitting IACS 2024 declarations within the deadline you have set, ie September 12, 2024, even when that the applications are partially or incompletely completed and that the supporting documents have been deleted, in order to ensure at least their normal registration, an option that we reject from the beginning, because in This way it is certain that the responsibility for the completeness or otherwise of the application is transferred to us, that is to the KYD and the beneficiaries. This is because the option already applied has no guarantee, as you request, that OPEKEPE will not judge the applications as incomplete after the first application and that they reject them partially or completely invalid”, it is noted in the court outside.
For these reasons, “vehemently protesting the culpable conduct of your organization above and reserving all of our legal rights, for any positive and collateral damages suffered by us and which is still suffering to bring it back, as a result of the delay in starting the work. Of the application platform applications, due to the sole fault of your Organization, we invite you to provide us with a fully functional system immediately because you have the same responsibility and obligation complete applications to enter and minimize any errors, so that there are correct payments. done in time and at the same time starting the programs of the Rural Development Program that are linked to the applications of IACS 2024 In addition and at least, we declare to you, for positive damages and co -any side we suffer from the illegal and guilty behavior of your organization, we will take any legal action against you before the competent courts.”
