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Regional Policy – Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020
8 December 2011
DG REGIO I2 ‘Bulgaria’
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Components effectiveness cohesion
policy
• Alignment of cohesion policy with Europe 2020
• Reinforced strategic programming
• Thematic concentration
• Conditionality
• Stronger focus on results
• Streamlined delivery system
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Thematic Objectives to Deliver Europe 2020
1.
Research, technological development & innovation
2.
Information & communication technologies
3.
Competitiveness SMEs
4.
Low-carbon economy
5.
Climate change adaptation, risk prevention & management
6.
Environment protection & resource efficiency
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Sustainable transport & removing transport network bottlenecks
8.
Employment & labour mobility
9.
Social inclusion & combating poverty
10. Education, skills & lifelong learning
11. Institutional capacity & efficient public administration
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Thematic Objectives & Investment priorities
• Common Strategic Framework  Thematic objectives
• Thematic objective  Investment priorities (Fund-specific)
• Link Cohesion policy actions to a thematic objective
• Less developed Member States/ regions may focus on a larger
number of thematic objectives and/or investment priorities
Example
 Thematic objective: Promoting climate change adaptation, risk
prevention and management
 Investment priorities (ERDF):
– supporting dedicated investment for adaptation to climate change
– promoting investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster
resilience and developing disaster management systems
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Application of ex-ante conditionality
Regulation: Thematic and horizontal ex-ante conditionality set out in the Regulation
Preparation of programming documents: Self-assessment by Member States and/or
regions whether conditionality has been met. Results included in draft programmes
and commitments synthesised in Partnership Contract
Conditionality fulfilled:
Draft programmes
describe that no further
action needs to taken
Partially fulfilled:
Draft programmes lay
down commitments for
fulfilment
Not fulfilled:
Draft programmes lay
down commitments for
fulfilment
Negotiation and agreement on commitments: The commitments are laid
down in the programmes and synthesised in the Partnership Contract
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Thematic ex ante road & rail
• Comprehensive national transport plan covering core and
comprehensive TEN-T
• Rail: investments cover mobile assets, interoperability and
capcity building
Criteria for fulfillment:
• Prioritisation investments contributing to mobility, sustainability,
reduction GHG, single EU transport area
• Realistic/mature project pipeline (timetable, budget, …)
• SEA
• Measures strengthening capacity beneficiaries to deliver projects
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EU level
National level
THE COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
ERDF, ESF, CF, EAFRD, EMFF
THE PARTNERSHIP CONTRACT
ERDF, ESF, CF, EAFRD, EMFF
Operational
Programmes for ERDF
National or
regional level
Rural development
programmes
(EAFRD)
Operational
Programmes for
(EMFF)
Operational
Programmes for ESF
Operational
Programmes for CF
Multifund Operational
Programmes for ERDF,
ESF, CF
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Partnership Contract
• Prepared at national level with close involvement of partners
• Agreed between the Commission and Member State, includes:
– Contribution CSF Funds achieving thematic objectives Europe 2020
– Main results expected
– An integrated approach for territorial development supported by the
CSF Funds
– Effective implementation: involvement of partners, ex-ante
conditionalities, performance framework, additionality
– Arrangements for efficient implementation: administrative capacity,
administrative burden reduction
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Programming
Integrated programme approach
Possibility multifund programmes combining ERDF,
ESF and the Cohesion Fund
Priority Axis
• Main unit for management and reporting, budget, cofinancing rate
• Corresponding to only one thematic objective.
• Corresponding to one or more investment
priorities.
• Mono–fund (although OPs can be multi-fund)
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Investment
Specific
objective:
Enhancing
mobility
priority
between small towns and big cities and
Enhancing
towards international border crossing
regional
points
mobility
through
connecting
secondary
Description of actions needed
and tertiary
•Enhancing the capacity of roads A and
nodes to
B
TEN-T
•Building multi-level intersections in
infrastructure areas x and y
•Connecting railway track A to track B
Categories of intervention
•Railways (TEN-T comprehensive)
•Secondary road links to TEN-T road
network and nodes
•Other national and regional roads
Reduction of
travel time
•Km of road
upgraded
•Km of new
railway line
+
•No of
intersections
constructed
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Multi annual Financial Framework
&
EU Cohesion Policy
• Budget limited in size: commitment level 2013 x 7 years
= 1025 billion in 2011 prices = 1.05 % of EU GNI
• Cohesion policy: EUR 336 mln (2007-13 EUR 355 mln)
• Less developed regions: NUTS 2 GDP/head < 75% EU
27 average (all of Bulgaria)
• Most recent data July 2006
Total allocation EUR 162.6 billion over 64 regions with 119
million inhabitants
Cohesion Fund: EUR 68.7 billion (< 90% GNI/head)
Less developed regions 162.6 (transition regions 39, more
developed regions 53.1, cooperation 11.7
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Maximum support level - capping
• Maximum level transfer Funds (ERDF, CF, ESF) to
MS = 2.5% GDP (now 4% GDP)
• Lower: absorption problems, national co-financing
• Yet share new MS (EU12) increases 51%  57%
or EYR 249 to EUR 264 cap/year
• 25% ESF less developed regions (BG now 27%)
• >= 50% ERDF to energy efficiency and renewable
energy, research & innovation, competitiveness
SMEs
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Cohesion Fund investments
• Focus on sustainable transport and removing
bottlenecks in key network infrastructures, by:
• supporting a multi-modal Single European
Transport Area by investing in TEN-T;
• developing environment-friendly and lowcarbon transport systems including promoting
sustainable urban mobility;
• developing comprehensive, high quality and
interoperable railway systems; and
• strengthening institutional capacity and raising
efficiency of public administrations and public
services implementing the Cohesion Fund.
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New TEN-T Guidelines
Core and comprehensive networks
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To be completed by 2050 (comprehensive) and 2030 (core).
Core network: nodes, connections with neighbouring
countries' transport infrastructure networks.
Intelligent transport systems, bridging missing links and
removing bottlenecks, notably in cross-border sections,
removing administrative and technical barriers
(interoperability, competition), integration transport modes.
Low-carbon transport (rail and urban public transport),
facilitating interconnections between transport modes such as
rail, air, inland waterway, road and maritime infrastructure.
Railway transport infrastructure: high-speed and conventional
railway lines, freight terminals and logistic platforms, ITS and
ERTMS.
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TEN-T Comprehensive & Core: Roads,
ports, rail-road terminals, airports
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Railways, ports & rail-road terminals
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Budget, time, policy and capacity
constraints: negotiation priorities
• Budget: BG government estimates EUR 9 billion.
• Time: only 7-9 years in a programming period.
Core TEN-T 2030, comprehensive 2050.
• Other sources of financing to realise transport
agenda: national budget, EIB and public-private
partnerships.
• Policy perspective: new programming period
favours investments rail & multi-modal transfer
nodes. BG will have to reduce ambitions regarding
financing road construction
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Timeline
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Jan 2012: EC Communication on Common Strategic Framework
Jan – March 2012: Public consultation on Communication
June 2012: Commission proposal for CSF
2012-2013: Dialogue COM-MS on Partnership Contracts and OPs
Adoption legislative package, immediate entry into force
+ 3 months: COM adopts CSF
+ 6 months: MS to transmit Partnership Contracts and OPs (incl.
ex-ante evaluations); COM to make observations within 3
months, adoption within 6 months; PC to be adopted before
OPs.
+ 9 months: ETC programmes to be submitted to COM
• PCs can already be adopted before 2014
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Further information
Available on DG REGIO website at:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index_en.cfm
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