JASPERS Action Plan

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Transcript JASPERS Action Plan - Club Metropolitan Forum

Forum for Sustainable Mobility and Metropolitan Development Oradea, 13-14 November 2013

JASPERS

Teo Falato, Transport Sector Specialist

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JASPERS overview

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Involvement of JASPERS in Urban Transport

JASPERS overview

J oint A ssistance to S upport P rojects in E uropean R egions

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Joint technical assistance facility

EIB, EBRD, KfW) (European Commission, •

Beneficiary countries:

– Twelve which joined EU in 2004 and 2007 (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) – Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro and Serbia – In 2013 assistance extended to Greece 3

Evolution of JASPERS

2007

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Start-up Focus on concept/ feasibility studies Horizontal work 2007-2009 2011-2013 Post 2013

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Increased focus on applications and EC review process Pilot phase: implementation support

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JASPERS introduces “capacity building” Increased focus on strategic support Start of support to projects for next programming period Improved information sharing with IFI partners Start operations in Croatia

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Maintain project focus Increase capacity building, implementation support, strategic support Geographic expansion to IPA countries Networking platform Consolidate Sofia office

Project Preparation Support is the focus

JASPERS rationale

• Stable long-term structure • IFIs’ in-house technical capacity and experience • Based in and managed by EIB but separate from EIB lending operations • Close to beneficiaries: 70% of staff in regional offices 5

JASPERS objectives

• Improving the

quality of major projects

submitted for grant financing to be • Accelerate the

absorption

of the available funds •

Building capacity

within national administrations:  learning-by-doing/replicating successful methods  training seminars (e.g. cost-benefit analysis)  horizontal studies: background advice (e.g. state aid), spreading best practice 6

JASPERS Structure

• Focus on Sectors • Staffing: 89 staff as of 25 June 2013, including 14 support staff • Experts: engineers, economists and EIA specialists • 70% of experts in regional offices • Additional consultancy (JASPERS TA framework contracts) 7

JASPERS Sectors

Roads Air - Maritime Public Transport Water & Waste Knowledge Economy, Energy

 Road infrastructure  ITS  Road safety  Ports  Airports  Rail  Urban Transport  Water supply  Flood management  Waste water treatment   Waste management R&D  ICT  Energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy 8

JASPERS offices

LUXEMBURG

provides overall coordination and JASPERS services to Cyprus, Malta, Greece, FYROM, Montenegro and Serbia

WARSAW office

since November 2006: provides JASPERS services to Poland and the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

VIENNA office

since March 2007: provides JASPERS services to Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia

BUCHAREST office

since April 2007 : provides JASPERS services to Bulgaria and Romania

Sofia

facility opened in March 2009 9

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Assistance is provided on the basis of annual

Action Plans

agreed between JASPERS and each beneficiary country • Action Plans are discussed/decided

in co-operation between -

the beneficiary country (Ministry of EU funds and Managing Authorities)

JASPERS

EC DG REGIO country desks •

2007-2010

JASPERS Action Plans covered many projects but only under SOPs, ROP not included •

2011

– first Action Plan including ROP – Urban Transport 10

Action Plan Cycle

JASPERS assistance

Mainly

project preparation

– Assistance from early stages of project through to the decision to grant assistance e.g.

− Advice on conceptual development and project structuring − Advice on project preparation e.g. feasibility study, options analysis, cost-benefit analysis, financial analysis, environmental issues, procurement planning.

− Advice on compliance with EU law (environmental, competition and others) and conformity with EU policies.

- Implementation

− − PMUs

support

and

capacity development

Procurement Plans, Tender Documents 12