Transcript concentration competitiveness

The Lisbon strategy for growth
and jobs and EU regional
policy
DG REGIO
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Title
• INNOVATION
PERFORMANCE
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EU regional policy 2007-13 – based on:
1. A concentration of resources on the
least prosperous regions
2. A concentration of the effort on the
Lisbon agenda
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1. Concentration on the regions:
policy targets
• Over ¼ of population lives in regions
below 75% of EU average GDP
• 14 Member States have GDP below 90% of
average (34% of population)
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1. Concentration on the regions: basic
principles of EU Regional Policy
• Regional approach – 268 (NUTS 2) regions
> average: ca. 16 000 km sq. – 1.8 million
population
• Not income transfers – support for
programmes
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1. Concentration on the regions: basic
principles of EU Regional Policy
• Concentration of EU budgetary
resources
– 81.5% Convergence regions (32% of
population); up from 69%
– 16.0% Competitiveness regions
– 2.5% Territorial co-operation
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• Geographical Eligibility
for Structural Funds
Support 2007-2013
Convergence objective
(Regions > 75% in EU25)
Geographical Eligibility
for Structural Funds
Support 2007-2013
Objective 'Regional
Competitiveness and
Employment'
Phasing-in regions,
"naturally" above 75%
Objective 'Regional
Competitiveness and
Employment'
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2. Concentration on the Lisbon
agenda: what is the Lisbon agenda?
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Originally adopted in March 2000 (Gothenburg
update in 2001)
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Aims to make Europe the most competitive and
dynamic economy in the world…
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Updated in 2005 : the growth and jobs agenda
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Two quantitative targets: employment rate of 70%
by 2010, R&D 3% of GDP…
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Since 2005, reinforced governance: detailed annual
reporting; peer pressure
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2. Concentration on the Lisbon
agenda: process
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COHESION POLICY
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LISBON AGENDA
Community Strategic
Guidelines
Integrated Guidelines
National Strategies
(NSRFs)
National Reform
Programmes
National and Regional
programmes
Annual Progress
Report
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2. Concentration on the Lisbon
agenda: substance (CSG)
1. Making Europe and its regions a more
attractive place to invest and work:
a. expand and improve transport
infrastructures
b. improve the environmental contribution to
growth and jobs
c. address the intensive use of traditional
energy sources
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2. Concentration on the Lisbon
agenda: substance (CSG)
2. Knowledge and innovation for growth:
a. increase and improve investment in RTD
b. facilitate innovation and promote
entrepreneurship
c. promote the information society for all
d. improve access to finance
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2. Concentration on the Lisbon
agenda: substance (CSG)
3.
More and better jobs
a.
attract and retain more people in employment and
modernise social protection systems
b.
improve adaptability of workers and enterprises and
the flexibility of the labour market
c.
increase investment in human capital through better
education and skills
d.
administrative capacity
e.
health and the labour force
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2. Concentration on the Lisbon
agenda: new instruments
• Closer co-operation with International Financial Institutions
(IFIs):
– JASPERS: a new technical assistance/evaluation partnership with
EIB and EBRD for large projects
– JEREMIE: finance for business development for micro to medium
enterprises through European Investment Fund. Loans for the first
time.
– JESSICA: financial engineering for sustainable urban development
with EIB, CEB and other IFIs
• And to develop better cooperation between regions
– European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation: legal basis to
implement joint programmes
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A policy that works: GDP trends in the
regions?
• All EU15 Objective 1 regions: GDP per
head up from 63% to 70% of EU15 average
– gap relative to EU15 reduced by one sixth
1988-2001.
• Ireland: GDP 64% of EU15 average in 1988
and 121% in 2003. Growth of 8% per year
since 1995
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A policy that works: impact
assessment
Increase in GDP levels attributable to regional policy:
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1989-1999:
– 10.0% in Greece and 8.5% in Portugal
– 3.7% in Ireland and 3.1% in Spain
2000-2006:
– 6.0% for Greece and Portugal
– 4.0% in German Länder and 2.4% in Spain
2007-2013: preliminary estimates suggest:
– 8.0% for Lithuania, Czech Republic and Slovakia
– 6.0% for Bulgaria, Poland and Romania
– 3.0% in Greece and 1.5% in Spain, German Länder and
Mezzogiorno
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A policy that works: other impacts
• Internal market: trade between cohesion countries and rest of
EU doubled in last decade (¼ of Objective 1 expenditures return
as imports – particularly in Greece – 42% - and Portugal – 35%)
• €43 billion of Cohesion funding invested in transport in Objective
1 regions in the period 2000-2006
Motorway growth in Cohesion countries (km/surface area)
1995
1999
2001
2004
3,2
3,4
5,6
9,0
Spain
13,8
17,6
19,0
20,4
Portugal
21,2
44,5
51,2
61,7
1,0
1,5
1,8
2,7
13,8
15,7
16,7
18,8
Greece
Ireland
EUR 15
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Outlook
• Reform Treaty before EP elections in 2009
• Budgetary review for post-2013: 2008-09
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