Transcript 15th Annual E.C.U. EuroMeeting Belgrade, 29 September 2006

15th Annual E.C.U. EuroMeeting
Belgrade, 29 September 2006 , Hotel Palace
The common EU Market for a
common future „Building Europe together“
Rolf-Roger Hoeppner
AEC / ECU (Germany) , Brussels-Berlin-Munich
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„Building the Future together“
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EU - Serbia economic relations in brief
EU Twinning System (relevance for Serbia)
EU Acquis communautaire
EU Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)
„Cultural Due Diligence“,„Benchmarking“ /
„Best Practices“
• „Public-Private Partnership“, Public Procurement,
PPP project financing, Regional development,
crossborder cooperation
• Practical Experiences from the recent EU/German
Twinning Project „Improving the Investment Climate
in Turkey“ : Relevant issues applicable for Serbia
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Serbian economic relations in brief (1)
„ EU / Bilaterals / Multilaterals“
• European Commission
 SAA negotiations to be resumed (ICTY condition)
 IPA + „potential candidate“ – Status
 IPA components relevant for Serbia
 CARDS
 DG enlargement + EAR
 Financial Institutions ( EBRD, EIB )
• Bilaterals (example Germany)
 „Deutsch-Serbischer Kooperationsrat
 KfW South-East Europe Stability Facility
• Multilaterals
 World Bank Group, IMF
 UNDP, UNECE
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Serbian Economic Relations in brief (2)
• Recent IFC/World Bank Rating 2006 „Doing Business in Serbia“
 best ranking of Western Balkans, overall ranking well ahead
compared with Poland + Italy (!)
• EBRD/World Bank joint „Business Environment and Enterprise
Performance Sampling ( „BEEPS“)
 how companies (samples between 200-600 firms) assess
their business /investment environment and their interaction
with their government
• Business/Investment events:
Economist EIU: 5th Business Roundtable with Government
( 16.-17.10.2006 in Belgrade)
Montenegro Business and Investment Summit
(12.-13.10. in Sveti Stefan)
 Regions 2006 (28.-29-11- in Bukarest)
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Serbian Economic Relations in brief
(3)
• Serbian government priorities provides favorable
framework for EU support in regional investment
promotion
 privatisation process (auctions,asset sales) of large utilities
ongoing (RTB Bor,Mobi63)
 Municipalities funding from National Investment Plan for
infrastructure , industrial zones , science parks, health,
education
 Law on financing of local governments( 1.5 % of GDP
allocated) + Municipal Support Program for eastern Serbia will
foster further decentralisation
 The Standing Conference of Serbian Towns and
Municipalities to be involved in implementing local
government finance law
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Serbian economic relations in brief
(4)
• Selected Ongoing EU / multilateral projects
 Access to debt-based financing (EAR)
 UNDPs Capacity Building Fund
 EBRDs 18% equity stake in Opportunity Bank will
foster small and micro business access to finance
 Database of current legislation for Ministry of
Justice (EAR) . note: DG Markets interactive law
portal under preparation for member access to
public sector
 EIBs Municipal Loan facility
 EIBs Global Loan Facility System ( e.g.SME)
through Serbian Financial Intermediaries:
Komercijalna,Eksimbanka, Raiffeisen,Raiffeisen
Leasing
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„Twinning“
(1)
• „Twinning is an instrument for accesion countries,
candidate and potential candidate countries
• Between 2000 and 2005, some 65 twinning projects
have been carried out in the Western Balkans
countries with Croatia obtaining the lions share
• The potential in the next years is expected to
increase significantly according to the commission
(„Twinning“ Strategy of the EU Commission“)
• Serbia may be able to attract more twinning projects
than in the past
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Twinning (2)
• Twinning is a flexible instrument to correlate the
administrative and institutional organisations in
particular in potential candidate countries with
regard to the different sections of the acquis
communautaire
• Twinning does not require a tendering process like
in Technical assistance projects. Instead , Calls for
proposals are held : Interested –governmentinstitutions to submit eligible project proposals to
the EU Commission ( „Twinning 2006 - Building
Europe together“ ) .
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TWINNING (3)
• The Twinning concept incorporates some specific
features different from typical technial assistance
programs:
The Beneficiary country has the right to select its
Twinning Partner country
Twinning projects under capacity building
incorporate features beyong mere economic
appraisals („Cultural due diligence“)
Twinning projects follow a pragmatic
„Benchmarking“ / „Best practices“ approach
• Examples of Twinning projects in Serbia
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Instrument for PreAccession Assistance/
„IPA“ (1)
• IPA starts 1st January 2007 + applies for the period
2007-20012
• IPA is intended to „promote“ from a potential
candidate to a candidate status
• IPA is applicable to candidate countries
(Turkey,Croatia) and potential candidate countries
(Serbia, Western Balkans)
• IPA will replace the current pre-accession
instruments:
 PHARE (acquis,institution building,crossborder cooperation)
 ISPA (cohesion fund,transport infrastructure,environment)
 SAPARD ( rural development)
 CARDS (pre accession assistance for Western Balkans)
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IPA (2)
• IPA consists of 5 components
 Transition Assistance and Institution Building
 Regional + crossborder cooperation
Regional Development
 Human Resources Development
 Rural Development
• IPA components  and  will apply to both
potential candidates (like Serbia) and candidates
• IPA components  , ,  will apply to candidates
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IPA (3)
• IPA assistance to potential candidates will
concentrate on
 managing the assistance through EAR
 starting the alignment process with the
acquis communautaire
 enabling capacity to operate under decentrailsed
management , autonomous regional programming and
management capacities
 maintain the continuity of the phasing out CARD
program
• Important : Information on the indicative allocation of IPA
funds on a 3-year basis (2007-2009) proposed by DG
September
2006
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Enlargement are given
in the
multi-annual
indicative financial
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framework as part of the annual
enlargement package
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Case Study: Public Services in Europe –
„Regional Development + PPP“
(1)
• The EU „Committee of the Regions“ attitude
(R/CoR 82/2006) towards
 Public Procurement ( 20% of EU GDP annually!)
 Public Private Partnerships
 Services of General (Economic) Interest
 State Aid
• Public (municipal) Services typically refer to
 gas, water/waste water,energy/electricity
 healthcare, transport
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Looking forward to your
questions and a fruitful
discussion !
Thank you for your kind attention
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