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Krakow, 2005 November 29 The European
Structural Funds RUSE Project coordinated by
Energie-Cités Seminar hosted by Polish Network
Energie-Cités
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2007-2013the new programming period

• The 3 current priority objectives of the
  Structural Funds
• Objective 1 regions lagging behind in
  development
• Objective 2 regions undergoing economic and
  social conversion
• Objective 3 Training systems and employment
  promotion
• will be replaced in 2007 by the following 3
  objectives
• Convergence objective
• Regional competitiveness and employment
  objective
• European territorial cooperation objective

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2007-2013the new programming period

• Strategy, decentralisation, simplification
• The reform proposal maintains the basic
  principles of structural actions multi-annual
  programming offering a Community guarantee of
  sufficient duration and concentration, a broad
  and effective partnership of the actors concerned
  at various levels, co-financing based on the
  complementarity of Community and national aid,
  evaluation of performance and quality at the
  various stages in the process.
• At the same time, it introduces a series of major
  innovations aimed at making cohesion policy more
  effective. Here is a summary of the principal
  innovations.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• Convergence objective (ERDF, ESF, Cohesion
  Fund). Close to the current Obj. 1, its purpose
  is to speed up the economic convergence of the
  less-developed regions, by means of
• improving conditions for growth and employment
  by investing in human and physical capital
• innovation and the development of the knowledge
  society
• encouraging adaptability to economic and social
  change
• protection of the environment
• improving administrative efficiency.
• The convergence objective will play a
  particularly vital role in the NMS whose
  accession confronts the Union with unprecedented
  development gaps.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• 'Convergence' objective (ERDF, ESF, Cohesion
  Fund)
• The total amount of EUR 264 billion allocated to
  the convergence objective or 78.54 of
  contributions by the Funds compared with the
  present 75 will be distributed as follows
• 67.34 for regions whose per capita GDP is below
  75 of the average,
• 8.38 for regions concerned by the statistical
  effect,
• 23.86 for countries benefiting from the
  Cohesion Fund,
• 0.42 for the outermost regions.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• 'Regional competitiveness and employment'
  objective (ERDF and ESF)
• Corresponding to Objectives 2 and 3 current
  programmes
• Major components innovation, environment,
• transport,

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2007-2013the new programming period

• 'European territorial cooperation' objective
  (ERDF).
• The purpose of this objective, inspired by the
  experience of the Interreg Community initiative,
  is to strengthen cooperation at three levels
  cross-border cooperation through joint
  programmes cooperation between trans-national
  zones networks for cooperation and the exchange
  of experiences throughout the Union.
• In this way, the cooperation objective will
  encourage a balanced, harmonious and sustainable
  development throughout the European area.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• European territorial cooperation objective
  (ERDF).
• Cross-border cooperation will cover regions lying
  along internal land borders and certain external
  land borders, as well as some regions lying on
  sea borders.
• It will also contribute to the cross-border
  components of the future European neighbourhood
  and partnership instrument and Instrument for
  pre-accession. These will replace Phare, Tacis,
  MEDA, CARDS, ISPA and Sapard.
• When the regulation enters into force, the
  Commission will adopt the list of eligible
  cross-border regions and of transnational
  cooperation zones. The whole of the Union
  territory is eligible.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• The programming will take particular account of
  the following specific territorial
  characteristics
• The cities and towns, and in particular
  medium-sized towns, whose role in regional
  development will be boosted with aid for urban
  regeneration drawing on the experience of the
  URBAN Community initiative, and which could be
  subdelegated direct responsibilities
• Rural areas and areas dependent on fisheries,
  which will be the subject of actions to encourage
  a more diverse economy financed by the Structural
  Funds on the basis of complementary and
  consistency with the new European Agricultural
  Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the
  European Fund for Fisheries (EFF).
• The outermost regions, regions with a natural
  handicap (islands, mountains), sparsely or very
  sparsely populated areas, and former Community
  external border areas which ceased to be so on 30
  April 2004.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• Proposals for the new structural funds
  regulations for the period 2007-2013
• General regulation
• European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
• European Social Fund (ESF)
• Cohesion Fund
• European grouping of cross-border co-operation
  (EGCC)
• Community Strategic Guidelines, 2007-2013
• (adopted July 2005)

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2007-2013the priorities

• Structural funds
• Convergence
• Innovation
• Environment/risk prevention
• Accessibility
• Infrastructures
• Human resources
• Administrative capacity
• European territorial
• cooperation objective
• Innovation
• Environment/risk prevention
• Accessibility
• Culture, education

• Cohesion fund
• Transport networks (TEN-T)
• Sustainable transport
• Environment
• Renewable energy

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2007-2013the new programming period

• Proposals for the ERDF, ESF and Cohesion Fund
  regulations
• Independently of the points under the general
  regulation, we can also briefly outline elements
  that stem from the proposed regulations for the
  three financial instruments.
• ERDF
• Under the convergence objective, in addition to
  strengthening infrastructures transport,
  environment, energy, education, health and aid
  for SMEs, new stress is placed on research and
  innovation as well as on risk prevention.
• Under the cooperation objective, the cross-border
  programmes will concentrate on encouraging
  entrepreneurship, joint management of the
  environment and the sharing of infrastructures.
  Transnational programmes will include water
  conservation and management, access to major
  networks and the interoperability of systems,
  risk prevention and related research and
  technological development activities.

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2007-2013the new programming period

• ESF
• There will be a stronger link between the ESF,
  the European employment strategy and Union
  priorities in the field of social inclusion,
  education and training, and equal opportunities
  in order to anticipate changes due to economic
  and social restructuring, the development of the
  knowledge economy and demographic change.
• The main aim under the convergence objective will
  be to strengthen human resources so as to
  increase employment prospects, boost labour
  productivity and stimulate growth, as well as to
  support good governance and the strengthening of
  the institutions and administrative capacities.

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The relevant stakeholders for lobbying actions
Common analysis of lobbying actions
Comunity Strategic Guidelines Natal
Strategic Reference Framework Operational Program
mes
European Commission
States Regions contributions
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The main relevant stakeholdersfor lobbying
actions

• Who is acting at national level?
• Who is acting at regional level?
• Who is in charge of writing the OP?
• To whom is it possible to promote potential and
  future large projects?
• How to present and promote your organisation and
  your projects?