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-- From a Swedish perspective
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Key drivers for
this
Government
•
”Core of the EU”
•
Neighborhood policy
•
State of the Sea
•
Presidency 2009
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EUSBSR Governance in Sweden
- Prime Minister’s Office in lead
• Government bill to Parliament 2009
• Permanent inter-ministerial working group
• Commissioning of 39 Gov. Agencies to “integrate
EUSBSR in their tasks”
• Cross-sectoral approach: EUSBSR Agency
Network
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Agency assigned with task to
facilitate implementation of EUSBSR
- Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth
• Baltic Sea Region Agency Network
• Promote a coordinated implementation by
Swedish Agencies of the EUSBSR
• Compilation and analysis of annual reports
on the implementation of EUSBSR
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The Baltic Sea Unit of the Swedish
Institute
– Develops & funds cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region
• Staff of 16
• Policy Areas: EUSBSR, Eastern Partnership, Partnership
for Modernizing Russia
• Project fund 2,7 MEURO + other available funds = total
4,7 MEURO
• Financial support & advice to 31 out of 85 EUSBSR
Flagship projects
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Present national programming
• Contribution to EUSBSR as new general
criteria introduced in all 8 Regional
Programmes 2010
• In practical terms: The specific project’s
contribution to EUSBSR, and its Action
Plan, is 1 out of normally 10 selection
criterions
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Council “partial agreement” for
next Programming period (CSF)
• Partnership Agreements:”…shall indicate the
main priority areas for cooperation, taking into
account, where appropriate, of macro-regional
strategies and sea basin strategies” (Article
14.2.(a)(iii)
• The Operational Programme shall
describe….”the contributions of the planned
interventions to macro-regional
strategies…subject to needs of the programme
area as identified by the MS” (Article 87.3.(e)
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SE view on the review of the Action Plan…
• Targets & indicators
• Policy direction of Priority
Areas
• MFF & financing (alignment)
• Criterions for Flagship Projects
• Roles & responsibilities
• User Friendliness
• Communicability
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Looking further ahead…
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Thank you for
listening!
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