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European Union
Regional Policy – Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Territorial development
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European Union
Regional Policy – Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Agenda
• Territorial development in strategic
documents
• Tool-kit for integrated territorial development
• Community-led local development
• Integrated territorial investment
• Poverty mapping
• Specificities for ETC programmes
• Macro-regional and sea basin strategies
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European Union
Regional Policy – Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Territorial approach
• The CSF identifies:
– key territorial challenges (urban, rural, coastal and
fisheries areas etc.)
– priority areas for cooperation (taking into account
macro regional and sea basin strategies)
– coordination mechanisms among the CSF funds
and with other relevant Union policies and
instruments
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Territorial approach
• The Partnership Contract sets out an integrated approach
to territorial development including:
– the mechanisms at national and regional level that ensure
coordination between the CSF Funds and other Union and national
funding instruments and with the EIB
– the arrangements to ensure an integrated approach to the use of
the CSF Funds for the territorial development of urban, rural,
coastal and fisheries areas and areas with particular territorial
features (in particular with reference to community led local
development, integrated territorial investment and the list of cities to
participate in the urban development platform)
– a list of cities where integrated actions for sustainable urban
development are to be implemented and an indicative annual
allocation for these actions at national level
– an integrated approach to address the specific needs of
geographical areas most affected by poverty or of target groups at
highest risk of discrimination or exclusion, with special regard to
marginalised communities, where appropriate, including the
indicative financial allocation for the relevant CSF Funds
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Territorial approach
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The operational programme should set out its contribution to
the integrated territorial approach defined in the PC including:
– the mechanisms that ensure coordination between the Funds,
the EAFRD, the EMFF and other Union and national funding
instruments,
– a planned integrated approach to the territorial development of
urban, rural, coastal and fisheries areas and areas with
particular territorial features;
– the list of cities where integrated actions for sustainable urban
development will be implemented;
– the identification of the areas in which community-led local
development will be implemented;
– the arrangements for interregional and transnational actions;
– where appropriate, the contribution of the planned interventions
towards macro regional strategies and sea basin strategies;
– contribution to the integrated approach to address the specific
needs of geographical areas most affected by poverty or target
groups at highest risk of discrimination or exclusion.
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Integrated programming and delivery (1)
– Territorial programming – defining programme areas to
address territorial needs, functional geographies
Integration through:
– Joint programming – integrated planning and development of
programmes under cohesion policy and other EU and national
instruments
– Multi-fund programmes – operational programmes combining
ERDF and ERDF (and CF) to facilitate joint planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation
– Cross-financing – not a territorial element, but can facilitate
implementation where moderate intervention from ESF or
ERDF would be needed to complement the main investment
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Integrated planning and delivery (2)
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Community-led local development – facilitates the
implementation of bottom up local development initiatives financed
from several EU instruments (elaborated LEADER approach) –
option for ERDF, ESF, compulsory for EAFRD, EMFF
Integrated territorial investment – a delivery mode, which entails
the implementation of parts of several priority axis as a “bundle” to
ensure integrated territorial investment – option for ERDF, ESF,
Cohesion Fund
Poverty mapping - an integrated approach to address the specific
needs of geographical areas most affected by poverty or of target
groups at highest risk of discrimination or exclusion
List of cities where integrated actions for sustainable urban
development will be implemented – compulsory for ERDF, optional
for ESF and Cohesion Fund
NB: Joint action plans - extension of the simplified costs approach,
not specifically related to integrated territorial development
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Community led local
development
Community led bottom-up local development:
• can be urban, rural, coastal, cross-border etc, but must be
implemented by the local community;
• requires balanced representation of all interests in the local
action group – cannot be implemented by the municipality alone;
• Is based on sub-regional and multi-sectoral local development
strategies selected jointly under the responsibility of the relevant
managing authorities;
• can be financed from several EU instruments in parallel;
• where several EU instruments are used, management costs can
be covered from the “lead Fund” only; “lead Fund” will be
designated depending on the activities foreseen and the area in
question;
• local development groups take over some of the tasks of the MA
-project selection under the local development strategy
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Integrated Territorial
Investment
• Can be used when an urban development strategy or other
territorial strategy requires integrated investment under more
than one priority axis or operational programme
• Envisages that parts of the priority axes identified will be
implemented in a joint manner – this can involve the delegation
of implementation tasks to a local government and NGO or
another entity
• Unlike community-led local development ITI:
• can be implemented top-down;
• can be implemented by the MA, a single local government (e.g.
city) or other entity – no community involvement required
 OP should identify the ITIs planned and set out an indicative
financial allocation for each ITI
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Priority axis 1 (ERDF):
strengthening ICT
applications for egovernment, e-learning,
e-inclusion and ehealth
EUR 10 million
Priority axis 2 (ERDF):
enhancing the
competitiveness of SMEs
EUR 50 million
Priority axis 3 (ERDF):
supporting the shift
towards a low-carbon
economy in all sectors
EUR 50 million
ITI FOR THE INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENT OF
CITY X
EUR 190 million (ERDF+ESF)
Priority axis 4 (ERDF):
action to improve the
urban environment,
including regeneration of
brownfield sites and reduction of
air pollution
EUR 40 million
Priority axis 5 (ESF):
Reducing early schoolleaving and promoting equal
access to goodquality
early-childhood, primary
and secondary education
EUR 20 million
Priority axis 6 (ERDF):
investing in education,
skills and lifelong learning
by developing education
and training infrastructure
EUR 20 million
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Poverty Mapping
Optional tool to implement Articles 14 (c) and 87(d) of CPR
• Obligation for MS to have an integrated strategy to address the
specific needs of the poorest/most excluded groups of society
• Member States may choose between
– A geographical approach: identify geographical areas most
affected by poverty, possibly through poverty mapping
– OR
– target group approach: identify the target groups at highest
risk of discrimination or exclusion (e.g. Roma, migrants,
disabled people etc.) – no explicit need for poverty maps
• All CSF Funds may be mobilised
• Integrated strategy to be set out in the Partnership Contract and
Operational Programmes, including indicative financial
allocations
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Rationale for the use of poverty maps
• Most deprived small areas have low take-up of EU
funds, which hinders catching up
• Poverty maps can identify areas in need and help
targeting of funds and capacity building efforts
• May also allow indirect targeting of most vulnerable
groups, without being ethnically discriminative
– E.g. in HU in the 33 least developed micro-regions
live 1/10 of national population and 1/3 of
Hungarian Roma
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Commission support for poverty
mapping
• Commission willing to support national mapping
efforts
– ESPON research project for old MS
– Commission - World Bank cooperation. Pilot
mapping in BG and DK, possible further maps in
new MS (to be completed by end 2012)
• Statistical offices’ contribution and willingness to use
results is crucial
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Supporting territorial development
under the ESF regulation
• Territorial approaches are not fully visible in the current
programming period
• Objective of the Commission’s proposal:
– to highlight the possibility of territorial approaches in the ESF
context
– to facilitate the territorialisation of the ESF
• Possibility to continue ESF support to local employment
initiatives, territorial employment pacts…
• ESF can support sustainable urban development strategies,
complementary to the ERDF
• Support to institutional capacity building at local and regional
level
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Specificities for territorial
development in ETC programmes
Community-led local development, Art. 9 ETC regulation
• is an option for cross-border cooperation programmes
• Local development group has to be composed of
representatives of at least two countries
• Allows to coordinate ERDF support in border regions with ESF,
EAFRD and EMFF
• Examples: Possible option for larger cross-border programmes
to have community-led approach in a specific sub-region;
Integrated development in twin cities located on either side of
the border
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Specificities for territorial
development in ETC programmes
• Community local development
– Possibility in cross border programmes
• Integrated territorial investment, Art. 10 ETC
regulation
– Intermediate body designated to carry out the management
and implementation of an ITI has to be joint body (EGTC or
legal body set up by public authorities from at least two
participating countries)
– Example: Implementation of urban development strategy for
twin cities located on either side of the border through ITI
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Macro-regional and sea-basin
strategies
• CSF to establish priority areas for cooperation activities for each
of the CSF Funds, where appropriate taking account of macroregional and sea-basin strategies
• PC to set out main priority areas for cooperation, taking account
where appropriate of macro-regional and sea-basin strategies
• Programmes (both under Investment for Growth and Jobs and
ETC) to set out the contribution of the planned interventions
towards macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies,
where appropriate
• Programmes to report on progress in implementation in 2017
and 2019 reports
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Macro-regional and sea-basin
strategies under ETC
• Investment priority for the development and
implementation of macro-regional and sea-basin
strategies in transnational programmes
– Development of a macro-regional or sea-basin strategy (e.g.
preparatory studies, expert support for coordinating process
and drafting of strategy document)
– Implementation of an existing strategy e.g. through the
financing of projects directly deriving from it
– Implementation of an existing strategy e.g. through
supporting coordination of strategy process
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Sea basin strategies
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A framework of cooperation for a common sea basin
taking into account the geographic, climatic, economic
and political specificities
Sea-basin strategies are a core element in the
development of the EU’s IMP. They provide a better
framework to develop the main IMP tools, i.e. Maritime
Spatial Planning, Marine Knowledge, and Integrated
Maritime Surveillance
Several initiatives have been taken so far to develop sea
basin strategies
Sea basin and macro regional strategies are mainly
complementary, but there are particularities
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