Transcript European Regional Policy & The Funding Dimension

Structural funds
What does the Community
want?
• European identity
• Competitive industry
Supporting small firms & innovation
Skilled workforce
• Reduction of regional differentials
• Elimination of Social Exclusion
• Protection of the environment
Regional development
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Needs central support
Is locally directed
Is consistent across the Union
Should assist the implementation
of all EU policies
• Should involve local bodies in
decisions and delivery
Guiding Principles
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intervention in economic development
plurality
social solidarity
decentralisation of decision making
EU Regional Policy
EU funding regimes implement the EU’s defined policy
objectives agreed by the Member States.
These objectives are set out in policy documents, most
recently:
AGENDA 2000
AGENDA 2000: Aims
Internal policy
• conditions for sustainable growth and employment
• A knowledge based society
• Modernising employment & improving living conditions
The Common Agricultural policy
• Reform of the CAP
AGENDA 2000: Aims
Economic and Social Cohesion
• Reducing disparities in economic and social
development
• Concentration of funds on regions in greatest need of
economic development or industrial restructuring
• Structural support for new Member States
• Enhancing cost effectiveness
Three Structural Funds
European Regional Development Fund
European Social Fund
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
and one financial instrument:
Financial Instrument for Fisheries
The ERDF
The European Regional Development Fund aims to reduce the gaps in development
between the regions.
Primarily the fund provides support for the creation or modernisation of economic
infrastructure, which contributes to the development, or conversion of the regions
concerned.
Support is available for:
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Capital projects such as investment in transport infrastructure,
telecommunications, tourism projects, research and development facilities or
training centres.
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Business support projects such as technology transfer, supply chain
management or new product development.
The ESF
The European Social Fund is the European union’s main
tool for developing human resources and improving the
workings of the labour market throughout the union.
The fund aims to improve employment opportunities by
providing financial support for vocational training and
job creation measures.
The EAGGF (Guidance section)
This fund assists in the adaptation of agricultural structures and in developing and
diversifying the Community’s rural areas. The fund divides into two sections:
Guidance and Guarantee (CAP).
The Guidance section essentially covers grants, mostly contributing to the multiannual operational programmes operating under the criteria of the Structural
Fund Objectives 1, 2, 5a, 5b and 6.
It supports:
• The improvement of marketing and processing conditions for agricultural
products.
• Improvements in the structure of agricultural holdings.
• The protection of environmentally sensitive areas.
Objectives
Future Objectives (2000-2006)
• Objective 1 - promoting the development of the
poorest regions.
• Objective 2 - support for areas faced with
structural problems associated with socio-economic
regeneration.
• Objective 3
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- human resource development (ESF
Implementation
• A programme for each region
• covering a single objective
• using one or more funds
• meeting regional needs
EU Programmes
Rationale
Development
• Additionality
• Subsidiarity
• Respond to regional
priorities
• Respond to EU
priorities
• Plurality & partnership
• Iterative process national/commission
& regional actors
• Review & negotiation
• Implementation to
Plan
• Management at
Regional level
The steps to create an
operational programme
Regional Development Plans
• indicate regional priorities
Community Support Frameworks
• a Commission response on context & strategy
Single Programming Document
• specifies context, strategy, priorities & measures
Regional Development Plan
The RDP is developed locally and aims to provide a
clear steer for those using it to focus on regional
priorities and to understand the types of project that
are likely to be supported.
The strategy will develop the national framework of
priorities, which will be set out in the National
Devellopment Plan (prepared by central government)
to provide:
Regional Development Plan
a) strategic objectives, that accurately reflect the needs
of the region;
b) clear priorities for action based on an analysis of
information about the region and consultations
with a wide range of organisations
c) guidance on the type of projects and approaches that
will be encouraged
Community Support
Framework: Structure
1 Regional Development Context &
Analysis
2 Regional Development Strategy &
Forms of Assistance
3 Financial Tables & Additionality
4 Implementation of the Community
Support Framework
Community Support
Framework
• Regional Development Context &
Analysis
• The plan’s goals
• The key role of the Common Task
• Measures for vocational training and
employment promotion
• The effort for agricultural and fishery
reconstruction and rural development
• Other sources of European financial support
Community Support
Framework
• Regional Development Context &
Analysis
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basic infrastructure
production and use of energy
the border areas
the productive sector
the services sector
research and development capability
human resources potential
agriculture and rural development
rural areas
fisheries
Community Support
Framework
Development priorities
– Support for productive investment and accompanying production
related infrastructure
– Measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises
– Measures to promote research and technological development as
well as innovation
– Measures to protect and improve the environment
– Measures to promote the development of human resources,
vocational training and further training as well as employment
– Measures to promote agriculture, the development of rural areas
and fisheries
– Technical assistance
Community Support
Framework
The Environmental impact
• Legal framework for the improvement of the protection
of the environment in the new Federal Lander
• the role of the environmental authorities in the
implementation of the Community Support Framework
Financial Tables and Additionality
• EIB lending
• ECSC reconversion loans under Article 56 of the ECSC
Treaty
• Additionality
Typical regional targets
Industrial Restructuring
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Improvement in employment in the area;
Improvement of the business structure in the area;
Improvement in the level of company services;
Improvement in product quality, company technical skills and levels of innovation
Improvement of productivity;
Increase in the rate of SME formation;
Increase in the survival rate of SMEs;
Improved networking between customers and suppliers to increase opportunities for local
supply
Improvement of attractiveness of the area for investment (foreign or local);
Improvement in the areas image;
Improvement in the level and application of technology;
Increased provision of appropriate facilities for new technologically based companies;
Encouragement of new enterprises to utilise new technologies and production methods in
growth sectors;
Increase in business expenditure on R & T D; and
Establishment of Centres of Excellence: (Key growth)
Single Programming
Document
• Results from negotiations
• combines aspects of regional plan and
community support framework
• is the detailed basis for the operational
programme
• has targets to be met
Typical regional targets
Labour Market Issues
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Creation of new employment opportunities;
Maintenance of employment at such a level that demand for and
supply of labour is closer to balance;
Development of such training and educational structures to respond
better to the needs of business, particularly in the area of specific high
level skill needs in new and emergent technologies;
Co-operation between educational and research organisations and
businesses;
Introduction of training plans and programmes into established
enterprises (particularly medium-sized enterprises) and evidence that
this will lead to investment in human resource development;
Graduate retention and regional opportunities for graduates;
Fostering innovation and the use of new technologies in SMEs; and
Increasing the number of people with technological qualifications in
appropriate growth sector
Typical regional targets
Rural Development
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Improvement of agricultural product quality or reorientation to meet demand;
Other developments in area of product processing, handling, storage and packaging;
Development of by-product recycling;
Reduction of adverse environmental impacts associated with production;
Scale of producer and marketing groups to reach minimum levels for appropriate
agricultural sectors as defined by the relevant Ministry;
Collaborative marketing of tourism and recreation activities based on the rural environment;
Increased rural tourism per capita expenditure;
Increased regional income and employment from tourism;
Improvement in the number and quality of tourist facilities;
Improvement in quality and quantity of rural tourist accommodation and facilities;
Improved skills of those employed in tourist trade;
Ensuring the retention, in a good state, of the region’s most historic sites and buildings;
Demonstrate an integrated approach to village development;
The conversion of redundant farm buildings to non-agricultural economic activity;
Community enterprise development schemes (ie. Grass-roots local initiatives):
a) helping people to access appropriate education;
b) to provide them with the skills needed to enter training;
c) to facilitate easier access to training; and
d) to help them to get real jobs
Measures
• Must use one structural fund
• Must reflect a priority
• Must reflect an element of need
• May focus on a cross cutting theme
• May reflect one element of the priority, by
industry or type of activity
Participation
• Should include the major public bodies
• Should include the representatives of the
main economic actors, e.g trade unions
• May include direct involvement of the private
sector
• Must have a formal structure
• Is usually led by Central Government
representatives
Criteria
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be applied to each measure
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reflect the goals of the
single programming
document
• reflect the overall
priorities of the
programme
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be quantifiable
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be objective
• reflect the impact of the
project on the cross
cutting themes
Selection process
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is vital to the programme
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should be transparent, all aspects of the decision making clear
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must be based on the criteria
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should be prompt
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should facilitate the execution of the programme
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should be unbiased
Project Selection Criteria
Core
• A demonstration of additional benefit to the region as
a result of the programme
• A demonstration of need for programme support
Project Selection Criteria
• Job creation or attainment of other relevant specified
outputs;
• Leverage of extra investments, especially from the
private sector;
• Value for Money, including the cost per unit
• Level of disadvantage in the geographic area of the
project;
Project Selection Criteria
• Collaborative or partnership venture, particularly
those involving the private sector
• The innovative character of the project
• Synergy with other schemes and measures;
• The extent of support from other partners;
• The strategic nature of the project in the regional
context
• Positive environmental impact
Project Selection Criteria (Preferential)
• Comprehensive area-based regeneration effects
• Contribution to more than one of the three
programme components:
» industrial restructuring,
» labour market issues,
» rural development
• Significant contribution to regional competitiveness
Optional group work session
• In groups of six
• responding to local priorities
• develop an aspect of a programme
Construct an Operational
Programme
Base this on the given draft
Create
•Measures
•Criteria
•Eligible bodies
•Selection process