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As the intermediaries themselves were providing the consultancy support to SMEs, administrative costs, including salaries, accounted for a significant share of the expenditure reimbursed: one project sponsor used 55 % of its budget for salaries and another 18 % for marketing activities, while in the case of another, salaries accounted for 82 % of the total budget. 
Eftersom mellanhnderna sjlva tillhandahll rdgivningen till sm och medelstora fretag stod administrativa kostnader, inklusive lner, fr en betydande andel av de utgifter som ersattes: En projektsponsor anvnde 55 % av sin budget till lner och ytterligare 18 % till marknadsfring, medan lnerna fr en annan projektsponsor stod fr 82 % av den totala budgeten.
In the absence of any data being made available, however, the Court was unable to conclude whether or not the funds in question were used economically. 
Eftersom det inte fanns ngra uppgifter tillgngliga kunde dock inte revisionsrtten faststlla om medlen hade anvnts sparsamt.
Furthermore, one of the intermediaries was unable to document the time spent or work involved in providing advice to some of the SMEs that it supported. 
Dessutom kunde en av mellanhnderna inte dokumentera hur mycket tid eller arbete den gnat t rdgivning till vissa av de sm och medelstora fretag som den stdde.
Observations 23 Overall SMEs implemented the projects smoothly but the results achieved were not always demonstrated 52 The Court assessed whether: (a) projects had been carried out and were maintained as initially planned; (b) the intended economic benefits of implementing a project were obtained and measured. 
Iakttagelser 23 Generellt genomfrde de sm och medelstora fretagen projekten vl men de lyckades inte alltid visa vilka resultat som uppntts 52 Revisionsrtten bedmde om a) projekten hade genomfrts och fortsatte p det stt som ursprungligen planerades, b) den avsedda ekonomiska nyttan med att genomfra ett projekt hade uppntts och mtts.
Project outputs were gener‐ ally in line with the related application 53 In most cases projects were carried out within budget and without major de‐ lays. 
Projektens output stmde i allmnhet verens med de tillhrande anskningarna 53 I de flesta fall genomfrdes projekten inom ramen fr budgeten och utan strre frseningar.
For all projects delays had been notified to and approved by the managing authority. 
Fr alla projekt hade frseningarna anmlts till och godknts av frvaltningsmyndigheten.
54 In 25 of the 30 projects audited, out‐ puts were achieved as planned and were operational: (a) 17 beneficiary enterprises were able to go online following the creation of a website, and nine of them were able to conduct online sales; (b) another eight enterprises had had an online presence before the pro‐ ject was implemented, but chose to either create a new website or update their existing one. 
54 I 25 av de 30 granskade projekten hade outputen uppntts som planerat och fungerade: a) 17 stdmottagande fretag blev tillgngliga p internet sedan en webbplats hade skapats, och nio av dem kunde bedriva internetfrsljning. b) Ytterligare tta fretag fanns redan p internet innan projektet inleddes, men valde att antingen skapa en ny webbplats eller uppdatera sina befintliga webbplatser.
In four of the abovementioned 25 cases, the e‐commerce developments formed part of wider projects aimed at digitising the enterprise’s internal procedures (e‐business). 
I fyra av de ovan nmnda 25 fallen var utvecklingen av e-handel en del av mer omfattande projekt fr digitalisering av fretagets interna frfaranden (e-affrer).
55 In the case of the remaining five pro‐ jects audited (in Greece, Italy (Pied‐ mont) and Poland), their implemen‐ tation did not provide the intended outputs. 
55 Nr det gller de terstende fem granskade projekten (i Grekland, Italien (Piemonte) och Polen) ledde genomfrandet inte till avsedd output.
In the case of one project the enterprise did not make use of the application developed. 
Inom ett projekt anvnde fretaget inte den applikation som hade utvecklas.
Another four projects, despite the IT applications developed and implemented, either failed to carve out a niche in the mar‐ ket or experienced technical difficul‐ ties (see paragraph 57). 
Nr det gller fyra andra projekt hade man trots de it-applikationer som hade utvecklats och genomfrts antingen inte lyckats skapa en nisch p marknaden eller haft tekniska svrigheter (se punkt 57).
56 Even though the vast majority of projects did not provide for an IT maintenance budget at the outset (only four projects did so), this posed no problem to any of the enterprises whose projects were assessed. 
56 ven om de allra flesta projekt frn brjan inte hade ngon budget fr it-underhll (endast fyra projekt hade det) medfrde det inga problem fr de fretag vars projekt bedmdes.
In fact, the IT software was generally designed to ensure low maintenance costs and enable users to upgrade and make changes themselves (this was the case for 14 projects). 
I sjlva verket utformades it-programmen i allmnhet s att underhllskostnaderna skulle hllas nere och anvndarna sjlva kunna uppgradera och gra ndringar (det var fallet i 14 projekt).
Observations 24 57 Almost no enterprise experienced major technical problems during or after implementation. 
Iakttagelser 24 57 Nstan inga fretag drabbades av ngra strre tekniska problem under eller efter genomfrandet.
The IT applica‐ tions developed were operational and worked without interruption. 
De it-applikationer som utvecklades var i drift och fungerade utan avbrott.
The few exceptions were the following: two en‐ terprises in Greece whose website and/ or online booking page could not be accessed and three other enterprises in Poland and Italy that failed to find a market niche and had no customers. 
De f undantagen var fljande: tv fretag i Grekland vars webbplats och/eller internetbokningssida inte kunde ns och tre fretag i Polen och Italien som inte lyckades finna en marknadsnisch och inte hade ngra kunder.
In these three cases the sustainability of the project was not merely a mat‐ ter of IT maintenance: one project was not completed and for the other two the enterprises feared that they would not continue their economic activity beyond the legal sustainability period. 
I dessa tre fall var projektets hllbarhet inte endast en frga om it-underhll: ett projekt slutfrdes inte och fr de tv andra fruktade fretagen att projektens ekonomiska verksamhet inte skulle fortstta efter den rttsliga varaktighetsperioden.
Many SMEs stated that they had benefited from the implementation of their project but the results achieved were not measured systematically 58 Of the 30 enterprises whose projects were assessed, barely half had been asked to provide result targets (see also paragraphs 44 to 46). 
Mnga sm och medelstora fretag uppgav att de hade dragit nytta av genomfrandet av sitt projekt men det frekom ingen systematisk mtning av uppndda resultat 58 Av de 30 fretag vars projekt bedmdes hade knappt hlften ombetts att uppge resultatml (se ven punkterna 44Đ46).
Of the 14 projects whose applications con‐ tained result targets that were also monitored, the results were achieved in eight cases. 
Av de 14 projekt vars anskningar innehll resultatml som ocks vervakades uppnddes resultaten i tta fall.
Result targets consisted of increased turnover, an increase in the number of customers, an increase in the percentage of online sales, and/ or job creation. 
Resultatmlen gllde kad omsttning, fler kunder, strre andel internetfrsljning och/eller skapande av arbetstillfllen.
59 As far as the other half of the en‐ terprises receiving ERDF support to develop e‐commerce is concerned, no link could be established between the input received and the business devel‐ opment achieved by the enterprise. 
59 Nr det gller den andra hlften av de fretag som fick std frn Eruf fr att utveckla e-handel kunde inget samband faststllas mellan det bidrag fretaget tog emot och den utveckling som fretaget uppntt.
60 Thirteen enterprises claimed that they had made efficiency gains as a result of their project’s implementation, albeit that all but one had not fixed any such targets in their project applications. 
60 13 fretag hvdade att de hade gjort effektivitetsvinster till fljd av genomfrandet av projekten, trots att endast ett av fretagen hade faststllt sdana ml i sin projektanskan.
Of these 13 enterprises, only four were able to quantify them. 
Av dessa 13 fretag kunde endast fyra kvantifiera dem.
Six enterprises had not linked the co‐funded website to their internal business software, which meant that every online book‐ ing received had to be entered in their internal systems manually. 
Sex fretag hade inte kopplat ihop den medfinansierade webbplatsen med sina interna fretagsprogram, vilket innebar att varje internetbok-ning de tog emot mste fras in manuellt i det interna systemet.
61 Job creation was generally not the aim of most of the projects co‐financed. However, eight projects had a job‐cre‐ ation target which the enterprises had set as a result target in their project applications. 
61 Att skapa arbetstillfllen var i allmnhet inte syftet med de flesta av de medfinansierade projekten. tta projekt hade dock ett ml fr skapande av arbetstillfllen som fretagen hade angett som ml i sina projektanskningar.
62 All eight projects achieved their target. 
62 Alla tta projekten uppndde sina ml.
A further five enterprises claimed that they had hired one or more people as a result of the project’s implemen‐ tation, four of which were able to substantiate this. 
Ytterligare fem fretag hvdade att de hade anstllt en eller fler personer till fljd av projektets genomfrande, varav fyra kunde styrka detta.
Half of the enter‐ prises whose projects were assessed organised training for their staff in the use of the IT applications developed under the project. 
Hlften av de fretag vars projekt bedmdes anordnade utbildning fr sina anstllda i hur man anvnder de it-applikationer som utvecklats inom projektet.
This training was customised to cater for the individual enterprises that requested it, hence no certificates were issued. On‐the‐job training was also common. 
Utbildningen skrddarsyddes fr att passa varje enskilt fretag som begrde den, och drfr utfrdades inga intyg. I mnga fall genomfrdes ocks utbildning p arbetsplatsen.
Conclusions and 25 recommendations 63 E‐commerce technologies are viewed as a way of accelerating economic growth, of further developing the single market and of speeding up European integration. 
Slutsatser och 25 rekommendationer 63 E-handelsteknik betraktas som ett stt att pskynda ekonomisk tillvxt, ytterligare utveckla den inre marknaden och pskynda den europeiska integrationen.
The Com‐ mission has therefore increasingly placed importance on the need to foster e‐commerce developments, in particular through one of its flagship initiatives, the DAE. 
Kommissionen har drfr lagt allt strre vikt vid behovet av att frmja utvecklingen av e-handel, srskilt genom ett av sina huvudinitiativ, den digitala agendan fr Europa.
The EU structural funds budget has devoted three billion euro to the promotion of ICT‐uptake by SMEs during the 2007–13 program‐ ming period. 
Inom EU:s strukturfondsbudget har tre miljarder euro gtt till att frmja sm och medelstora fretags anvndning av IKT under programperioden 2007Đ2013.
64 The audit addressed the question of whether ERDF support to SMEs in the field of e‐commerce was effective and concluded that the ERDF support to e‐commerce projects contributed to increasing the availability of busi‐ ness services online. 
64 Revisionen gllde frgan om Eruf-stdet till sm och medelstora fretag nr det gller e-handel var ndamlsenligt, och vi drog slutsatsen att stdet frn Eruf till e-handelsprojekt har bidragit till att ka tillgngen till fretagstjnster online.
However, short‐ comings in the monitoring made it impossible to assess to what extent it contributed to the achievement of the EU and Member States’ ICT strategies as well as SMEs’ development objec‐ tives. 
Brister i vervakningen gjorde det dock omjligt att bedma i vilken utstrckning det har bidragit till frverkligandet av EU:s och medlemsstaternas IKT-strategier samt till de sm och medelstora fretagens utvecklingsml.
65 Member States’ OPs served as a good basis for providing support to SMEs in the field of e‐commerce. 
65 Medlemsstaternas operativa program utgjorde en god grund fr stdet till sm och medelstora fretag nr det gller e-handel.
They included e‐commerce measures in line with their national or regional needs, as defined in their respective ICT strategies. 
De innehll e-handelstgrder som stmde verens med nationella eller regionala behov, i enlighet med vad anges i deras respektive IKT-strategier.
However, meaningful measurement of the progress made was sometimes jeopardised by the fact that indicators and target values were revised, frequently towards the end of the programming period, and not always with proper justification. 
En meningsfull mtning av framstegen frsvrades dock nr indikatorer och mlvrden reviderades, ofta mot slutet av programperioden, och inte alltid med vederbrlig motivering.
Moreover, expenditure related to e‐commerce projects was not always reported to the Commission under the correct category and this hindered its overall assessment. In 2013, the Com‐ mission addressed the slow absorption of funds by proposing an alternative use of structural funds to promote ICT‐uptake by SMEs through its ‘ICT Innovation Voucher Scheme’. 
Dessutom rapporterades utgifter fr e-handelsprojekt inte alltid i rtt kategori till kommissionen vilket frhindrade en helhetsbedmning av dem. r 2013 freslog kommissionen, fr att frska komma till rtta med det lngsamma utnyttjandet av medel, en alternativ anvndning av strukturfonderna fr att frmja sm och medelstora fretags anvndning av IKT genom ÓIKT-innovationscheckarÓ.
But it did not pay enough attention to perfor‐ mance monitoring, which is indispen‐ sable for evaluating actual progress made (paragraphs 18 to 27). 
Men kommissionen gnade inte tillrcklig uppmrksamhet t att flja upp resultat, vilket r oumbrligt fr att de faktiska framstegen ska kunna utvrderas (punkterna 18Đ27).
The limited nature of the selection criteria applied meant that they sometimes financed all eligible projects for as long as funding was available, regard‐ less of any potential added value from the perspective of developing SMEs or the EU information society’s objectives (paragraphs 29 to 43). 
De urvalsvillkor som tillmpades var s begrnsade att alla stdberttigande projekt finansierades s lnge finansiering fanns tillgnglig, oavsett om de medfrde ett potentiellt mervrde med hnsyn till utveckling av sm och medelstora fretag eller EU:s ml fr informationssamhllet (punkterna 29Đ43).
Moreover, man‐ aging authorities were, in most cases, unable to assess the impact of a pro‐ ject on an SMEs development. 
Dessutom kunde frvaltningsmyndigheterna i de flesta fall inte bedma ett projekts effekt p ett litet eller medelstort fretags utveckling.
Finally, in two of the Member States selected, they did not carry out the necessary checks on the reliability of the data fed into the system (paragraphs 44 to 51). 
Slutligen utfrde tv av de utvalda medlemsstaterna inte de ndvndiga kontrollerna av tillfrlitligheten i de uppgifter som matades in i systemet (punkterna 44Đ51).
Conclusions and recommendations 26 67 Overall SMEs implemented the pro‐ jects smoothly and outputs were generally in line with the related ap‐ plication. 
Slutsatser och rekommendationer 26 67 Generellt genomfrde de sm och medelstora fretagen projekten vl och projektens output stmde i allmnhet verens med de tillhrande anskningarna.
Many SMEs stated that they had benefited from the implementa‐ tion of their projects but results were only measured in less than half of the projects audited. 
Mnga sm och medelstora fretag uppgav att de hade dragit nytta av genomfrandet av sitt projekt men resultatet mttes endast i mindre n hlften av de granskade projekten.
In these cases, it was found that there were benefits for over half the SMEs concerned (paragraphs 53 to 62). 
I dessa fall har det kunnat konstateras att de var till nytta fr ver hlften av de berrda sm och medelstora fretagen (punkterna 53Đ62).
68 The Court therefore recommends the following: Recommendation 1 The Commission should ensure that it obtains consistent and reliable infor‐ mation from the Member States on the OPs’ progress, not only in financial but also in performance terms. 
68 Revisionsrtten rekommenderar drfr fljande: Rekommendation 1 Kommissionen br frskra sig om att den fr enhetliga och tillfrlitliga uppgifter frn medlemsstaterna om hur de operativa programmens fortskrider, inte bara finansiella uppgifter utan ocks uppgifter om resultat.
To this end, it should: (a) assess the relevance of the result indicators proposed, both when approving the OPs and subsequent amendments; (b) design a monitoring system in such a way that progress towards all target values set can be meas‐ ured in a timely way and allowing for comparison over time; (c) suggest standard indicators rele‐ vant to EU strategic objectives on e‐commerce. 
Drfr br den a) bedma relevansen av de resultatindikatorer som fresls, nr den godknner svl de operativa programmen som senare ndringar, b) utforma ett vervakningssystem som gr det mjligt att i tid mta framstegen mot alla de mlvrden som faststllts och gra jmfrelser ver tid, c) fresl standardindikatorer som r relevanta fr EU:s strategiska ml om e-handel.
Recommendation 2 The Commission should insist that the selection criteria and procedures put in place by the Member States ensure the selection of projects that maxim‐ ise added value among applicants in terms of fostering e‐commerce de‐ velopment in SMEs and achieving the DAE targets while, at the same time, ensuring such procedures are appro‐ priate to their targeted beneficiaries in terms of the time and administrative work required. When selecting projects, Member States’ authorities should, where ap‐ propriate, require applicants to: (a) provide justification of the need to implement the project concerned, ideally in the form of a sufficiently detailed and realistic business plan; (b) demonstrate the financial viability of the project; (c) demonstrate the need for public financial support in order to avoid deadweight spending; (d) incentivise project owners to take the cross‐border dimension of their business into account in order to fully exploit the opportunities of the single market. 
Rekommendation 2 Kommissionen br insistera p att de urvalskriterier och urvalsfrfaranden som medlemsstaterna har infrt ska garantera ett projekturval som maximerar mervrdet fr de skande nr det gller att frmja e-handelns utveckling bland sm och medelstora fretag och uppn mlen fr den digitala agendan fr Europa och samtidigt garanterar att frfarandena r lmpliga fr de stdmottagare man riktar sig till med hnsyn till den tid och det administrativa arbete som krvs. Vid urvalet av projekt br medlemsstaternas myndigheter, nr det r lmpligt, krva att skande a) lmnar en motivering av behovet av att genomfra det berrda projektet, helst i form av en tillrckligt detaljerad och realistisk affrsplan, b) visar att projektet r ekonomiskt lnsamt, c) visar att det behvs offentligt ekonomiskt std i syfte att undvika ddviktseffekter, d) uppmuntra projektgare att beakta den grnsverskridande dimensionen av sin verksamhet fr att till fullo utnyttja den inre marknadens mjligheter.
Conclusions and recommendations 27 Recommendation 3 The Commission should require Member States’ managing authorities to put management tools in place for the purpose of monitoring the impact of the grant on the business develop‐ ment of the SME supported. 
Slutsatser och rekommendationer 27 Rekommendation 3 Kommissionen br krva att medlemsstaternas frvaltningsmyndigheter infr frvaltningsverktyg fr vervakningen av stdets effekter p utvecklingen av de sm och medelstora fretag som fr std.
It should require in particular that: (a) a minimum set of robust indicators with related targets are defined in the grant agreements, measured and subjected to subsequent mon‐ itoring, both once the project has been implemented and is opera‐ tional and at a later stage, when its full impact is likely to have taken effect; (b) wherever appropriate, a mecha‐ nism is introduced that ensures that payments are linked to performance and allows for their adjustment in the event of serious underperformance; (c) the necessary checks and controls are carried out to ensure that the data entered into the moni‐ toring systems are reliable and consistent. 
Den br srskilt krva att a) en minimiuppsttning av stabila indikatorer med tillhrande ml definieras i bidragsverenskommelserna, mts och underkastas senare kontroll, bde nr projektet har genomfrts och nr det r i drift och i ett senare skede, nr man sannolikt kan se den fulla effekten, b) man nr det r lmpligt infr en mekanism som garanterar att betalningarna kopplas till resultatet och kan justeras vid mycket otillfredsstllande resultat, c) ndvndiga kontroller utfrs som garanterar att de uppgifter som registreras i vervakningssystemen r tillfrlitliga och konsekventa.
This Report was adopted by Chamber II, headed by Mr Henri GRETHEN, Member of the Court of Auditors, in Luxembourg at its meeting of 12 November 2014. 
Denna rapport antogs av revisionsrttens avdelning II, med ledamoten Henri GRETHEN som ordfrande, vid dess sammantrde i Luxemburg den 12 november 2014.
Reply of the 28 Commission Executive summary III The Commission welcomes the Court’s assessment. 
Kommissionens 28 svar Sammanfattning III Kommissionen vlkomnar revisionsrttens bedmning.
The Commission considers that the effectiveness of the ERDF support to e‐commerce projects allows increasing the availability of business services online. 
Kommissionen anser att ndamlsenligheten av Eruf-stdet till e-handelsprojekt bidrar till att ka tillgngligheten p fretagstjnster online.
The new regulations for the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) for the 2014–20 period address the issue of monitoring at programming level by strengthening the result orientation and intervention logic by introducing ex ante condi‐ tionalities. 
De nya frordningarna fr EU:s struktur-och investeringsfonder (ESIF) fr perioden 2014Đ2020 hanterar problemet med vervakning p programniv genom att strka resultatorienteringen och interventionslogiken genom infrandet av frhandsvillkor.
In the case of e‐commerce investments, a specific ex ante conditionality is required in the form of a strategic policy framework for digital growth. 
Vad gller e-handelsinvesteringar krvs ett srskilt frhandsvillkor i form av en strategisk ram fr digital tillvxt.
IV (a) The Commission accepts this recommendation. 
IV a) Kommissionen samtycker till denna rekommendation.
For the 2007–13 period, the Commission requires the managing authorities to report on the imple‐ mentation of the programmes in line with the applicable ERDF regulations. 
Fr perioden 2007Đ2013 krver kommissionen att frvaltningsmyndigheterna rapporterar om genomfrandet av programmen i enlighet med gllande Eruf-frordningar.
At priority axis level the indicators will capture the overall per‐ formance in the axis, but not the individual perfor‐ mances of all types of action that might be included in that axis. 
Indikatorerna fr de prioriterade omrdena ska mta det vergripande resultatet fr omrdet, men inte de enskilda resultaten fr alla typer av tgrder som kan ing.
IV (b) The Commission accepts the recommendation and will request appropriate measures to be taken by the Member States. 
IV b) Kommissionen samtycker till rekommendationen och kommer att begra att medlemsstaterna vidtar lmpliga tgrder.