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Position Paper Estonia
Position of the Commission Services on
the development of the Partnership Agreement
and programmes in Estonia
for the period 2014-2020
Launch event 14.11.2012, Tallinn
Background
• Pro-active approach: early stage information
on Commission's services position on priorities
2014-20 to Member States
• Framework for dialogue between Commission
services and Member States
• Closer alignment with EU2020 strategy and
Country Specific Recommendations (National
Reform Programmes)
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Legislative process outline
• Commission proposals October 2011 (amended in
September 2012)
• Negotiations in Council and European Parliament
(co-decision procedure)
• Partial general agreement [General Affairs
Council (16.10)]
• European Council in November (MFF)
• European Parliament REGI committee adopted in
July amendments to draft Regulations
• Trilogues: July, September-December
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EU level
National
level
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THE COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
ERDF, ESF, CF, EAFRD, EMFF
THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
ERDF, ESF, CF, EAFRD, EMFF
Operational
Programmes for ERDF
National or
regional level
Rural development
programmes
(EAFRD)
Operational
Programmes for
(EMFF)
Operational
Programmes for ESF
Operational
Programmes for CF
Multifund Operational
Programmes for ERDF,
ESF, CF
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Common Strategic Framework
Reinforced:
• Strategic, integrated, coordinated and
coherent approach
• Thematic concentration
• Prioritisation
• Results orientation
• Cooperation
• Simplification
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Partnership Agreement
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Commission Services
Position Paper
Based on pro-active approach by the Commission in
presenting its ideas on the Funds prioritisation.
• Development needs, challenges and priorities
linked to EU2020 objectives for Estonia.
• Country Specific Recommendations, Staff
Working Document and National Reform
Programme.
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Economic situation in Estonia
• GDP per capita 67% of EU average (EE goal 80%
2020)
• Employment rate 70.4% (EE goal 76% 2020)
• To reach these goals, net-exports-driven
economic growth is needed
• GDP growth 2.5% 2012, 3.1% 2013
• Unemployment rate 10.5% 2012, 9.8% 2013
challenge: structural unemployment
• Regional disparities persist
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Challenges for Estonia I
Insufficient participation of private sector in
research and innovation and inadequate
competitiveness of SMEs
• 1.63% of GDP on R&D (0.82% private)
• Fragmented R&I system, lack of focus
• Only a fraction of companies innovate
• Business-academia co-operation not strong
enough
• Improvements in competitiveness required to
foster exports
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Challenges for Estonia II
Insufficient infrastructure endowment
• Missing north-south infrastructure
• Inadequate quality of road and rail
• Lacking intermodal connection points and
integrated systems
• Interoperability of transport systems and hubs
• Outdated energy distribution network
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Challenges for Estonia III
• Decreasing population leading to insufficient labour supply in
longer term
• High youth unemployment and increasing long-term
unemployment
• Skills mismatch and lack of skilled labour force
• Low participation rate in lifelong learning, in particular for
low-skilled and older people
• Low coverage of ALMP measures leading to low effectiveness
of ALMP
• Varying capacity of local governments in providing public
services
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Challenges for Estonia IV
High energy intensity and gaps in relation to
EU environmental targets
• Low energy efficiency performance at sector level
• Only 0.2% of energy in transport from RES, shift
from public transport to private cars
• Gaps in compliance with water and waste
directives
• Biodiversity and sustainable use of marine
resources
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Main challenges of agriculture sector
and rural areas in Estonia
• Low added value
• Shortage of employment and depopulation of
remote rural areas
• Achieve high value with low level of support
Main challenges of fisheries sector
and coastal areas
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Decreasing fishing opportunities and loss of jobs
Underperformance of some fleets
Many small boats
Low added value
Develop aquaculture
Policy changes, regional cooperation, long-term
planning
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Europe 2020 headline targets for Estonia
Europe 2020 headline targets
3% of EU's GDP to be invested in research and development
Current situation in Estonia
1.42 % of GDP in 2009,
1.63 % in 2010 (0.81 %
public, 0.82 % private)
National 2020 target in the NRP
3%
20% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction compared to
1990
20% of energy from renewables
20% increase in energy efficiency
75% of the population aged 20-64 should be employed
Reducing early school leaving to less than 10%
At least 40% of 30-34 years old completing tertiary or
equivalent education
Reducing the number of people at risk of poverty or exclusion
by at least 20 million in the EU (compared with 2008 levels)
+6 % (2010 non-ETS
emissions compared to
2005)
Based on current policies,
it could reach +12 % in
2020, compared to 2005
+11 %
(nationally binding target
for non-ETS sectors
compared to 2005)
23 % in 2009, 24 % in
2010
(Eurostat)
25 % in 2020
(RES Directive target)
GIC = 6.07 Mtoe (2010)
(Final Energy Consumption = 2.90
Mtoe in 2010)
Primary Energy Savings = 0.75
Mtoe
(Final Energy Consumption = 2.90
in 2020)
66.4 % in 2010, 70.1 % in
2011
76 %
13.9% in 2009, 11.6% in 2010, 10.9%
in 2011
9.5 %
35.9 % in 2009, 40 % in 2010
40 %
17.5 % in 2010, 58 000 people in 2009
15 %
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Funding priorities
• Need for strategic orientation and concentration,
the need to avoid fragmentation of investments.
• CSF Funds are an important tool in reaching
Europe 2020 targets.
• Concentration among and within the thematic
objectives.
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Funding priorities
1) Strengthening private research and creating an
innovation-friendly business environment
2) Upgrading infrastructure
3) Skilled labour force, better education, high
unemployment and inclusive society
4) Environment-friendly and resource-efficient
economy
• There is no ranking in the presentation of the
funding priorities
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Strengthening private research and
creating an innovation-friendly
business environment
• Foster prioritisation and internationalisation of
R&I systems
• Develop R&I strategy for smart specialisation
• Identify the knowledge-intensive sectors on
which to concentrate public resources
• Optimise benefits of cooperation
• Current relative level of CSF investments is
proposed to be maintained, private investment
should increase
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Strengthening private research and
creating an innovation-friendly
business environment
• Enhance private research, development and
innovation activities
• Match transnational, national and regional R&I
provision to business demand
• Strengthen SMEs' competitiveness and facilitate
their access to finance and internationalisation,
including in agriculture and fisheries
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Strengthening private research and
creating an innovation-friendly
business environment
Thematic objectives:
• Strengthening research, technological development
and innovation
• Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs, the
agricultural and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
• Enhancing access to, and use and quality of,
information and communication technologies (ICT
products, services and applications)
CSRs: 1, 3 and 4 of 2012
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Strengthening research and innovation
in the agricultural and fisheries
sectors
• Development of new products, processes
and technologies
• European Innovation Partnerships (EIP)
Enhancing the competitiveness of rural
SMEs and of the agricultural sector
and fisheries
• Strengthened rural advisory services
• Business opportunities from resource
efficiency
• Promotion of quality products, including
organic
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Strengthening private research and creating
an innovation-friendly business
environment in marine and maritime sectors
• Explore the potential for growth in marine and
maritime sectors in line with the Blue Growth
initiative. Mature marine sectors: coastal tourism,
maritime transport, aquaculture, even
shipbuilding and repair sector has a high
potential if it adapted to new challenges.
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Funding priorities
1) Strengthening private research and creating an
innovation-friendly business environment
2) Upgrading infrastructure
3) Skilled labour force, better education, high
unemployment and inclusive society
4) Environment-friendly and resource-efficient
economy
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Upgrading infrastructure
• Provision of key transport and energy links
reduces isolation and boosts the economy
• Current level of CSF investments in this funding
area is proposed to be maintained
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Upgrading infrastructure
• Improve essential transport links, including
moving ahead with the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor, a
key railway project to implement the EU Strategy
for Baltic Sea Region
• Develop energy distribution networks
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Upgrading infrastructure
Thematic objectives:
• Promoting sustainable transport and removing
bottlenecks in key network infrastructure
• Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon
economy in all sectors (network infrastructure)
CSRs: 4 and 5 of 2012
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Funding priorities
• Strengthening private research and creating an
innovation-friendly business environment
• Upgrading infrastructure
• Skilled labour force, better education, high
employment and inclusive society
• Environment-friendly and resource-efficient
economy
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Promoting employment and
supporting labour mobility
1. Access to employment for job-seekers and
inactive people
• Increase the coverage and effectiveness of ALMP
• Launch target-group tailored ALMP measures with
particular attention to young and long-term unemployed
• Increase significantly the participation of low-skilled
people in ALMP measures, combined with participation
in formal education, in cooperation with VET centres.
CSR 2 of 2012
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Promoting employment and
supporting labour mobility
2. Support to self-employment, entrepreneurship
and business creation
• Introduce integrated business start-up measures and
support services along with appropriate financial
instruments.
3. Active and healthy ageing
• Develop ALMP measures targeted at older people to
prevent unemployment in older age and support
adaptation to changing labour market needs.
• Support healthy ageing and health and safety at work by
improving the availability of illness-preventive services and
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using flexible working arrangements.
Promoting social inclusion and
combating poverty
Enhancing access to affordable, sustainable and
high-quality services, including health care and social
services of general interest
• Foster closer cooperation between different institutions
at national and local level in providing integrated and
needs-based social services while ensuring universal
access to and high quality of services.
• Develop and provide integrated activation measures in
cooperation with municipalities and NGOs to attract
inactive people and long-term unemployed back to
labour market.
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CSR 2 of 2012
Investing in education, skills and
lifelong learning
1. Reducing early school-leaving and promoting good
quality education
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Introduce opportunities for early school leavers and school drop-outs
to go back to formal education backed by adequate financial support
2. Enhancing access to lifelong learning (LLL), upgrading
the skills and competences of the workforce and
increasing the labour market relevance of education and
training systems.
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Improve the participation in lifelong learning for low-skilled and for
people without any professional qualification while making use of the
modernised training facilities of vocational education centres
• Extend the work-based training schemes in the vocational education
whereas involving social partners and the chambers of commerce and
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industry
CSR 3 of 2012
Investing in education, skills and
lifelong learning
3. Improving the quality, efficiency and openness of
tertiary and equivalent education with a view to
increasing participation and attainment levels
• Implement the tertiary education reform and align the
study programmes with labour market needs
• Strengthen the cooperation and partnership between
businesses and higher education and research
institutions
4. Developing education and training infrastructure as
regards pre-school facilities and the secondary education
sector restructuring
CSR 3 of 2012
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Enhancing institutional capacity and
ensuring an efficient public administration
1. Investment in institutional capacity and in the
efficiency of public administrations and public
services with a view to reforms, better regulation
and good governance
• Following the structural reform, increase the capacity
of local governments to provide high-quality public
services and create incentives for closer cooperation
in provision of public services, in particular social and
educational services.
CSR 5 of 2012
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Skilled labour force, better education,
high employment and inclusive society in
rural areas
• Diversification, entrepreneurship and business
creation offering new opportunities for
employment in rural areas
• Skills development of farmers
• Community Led Local Development
Funding priorities
1) Strengthening private research and creating
an innovation-friendly business environment
2) Upgrading infrastructure
3) Skilled labour force, better education, high
unemployment and inclusive society
4) Environment-friendly and resourceefficient economy
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Environment-friendly and resourceefficient economy
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Competitiveness
Job opportunities
Protection of nature
However, the relative share of CSF funding is
expected to decrease in comparison with 20072013
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Environment-friendly and resourceefficient economy
• Shift to an energy efficient, low-carbon economy
• Address the remaining gaps in the compliance
with the acquis and the binding EU targets in the
field of environment (transport related air
pollution, waste hierarchy, waste water, drinking
water)
• Further environmental protection in agricultural,
fisheries and maritime sectors
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Environment-friendly and resourceefficient economy
Thematic objectives:
• Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon
economy in all sectors (except network
infrastructure)
• Protecting the environment and promoting
resource efficiency
• Promoting climate change adaptation, risk
prevention and management
CSR:s: 4 and 5 of 2012
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Shift towards low-carbon economy in
agriculture
• Enhanced energy efficiency of agriculture
sector
• Promoted use of renewable energy sources in
agriculture
• Sustainable production of renewable energy
from forests
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Protecting the environment and
promoting resource efficiency in
agriculture
1. Targeted agri-environment-climate measures
• Protection of biodiversity-rich land
• Support of high nature value areas outside
Natura
• Promotion of sustainable soil management
practices
2. Encourage collective approaches
EMFF to support sustainable fisheries
• Increase yields from fishing through better
managed fish stocks
• Achieve higher value of catch through better
planning, marketing, quality measures,
innovation
• Eliminate wasteful practice (discarding) and
promote efficient catching techniques with low
impact on environment
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European Territorial Cooperation
• Transnational and cross-border cooperation (for
certain joint and coordinated activities and the
support of the coordination process)
• Mainstreaming cooperation by using its potential
in all OPs (mainly coordinated, complementary
and convergent activities)
• EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Region
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Territorial development
• Integrated Territorial Investments (ITI)
• Sustainable urban development strategieds
• Community Led Local Development (CLLD)
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Success factors
Strategic, integrated, coordinated and coherent
approach
Targeted actions with measurable impacts
Cooperation across regions, funds & strategies
Ex-ante conditionalities, e.g.
• R&I strategy for smart specialisation
• National transport plan
• Strategic plan for aquaculture; data collection for
fisheries management and the implementation of
a Union control, inspection and enforcement
system.
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Informal dialogue with
Member States - Next steps
• Position Paper sent to Member State
• Launch event
• Establish a list of questions and issues to be
discussed/clarified
• Informal dialogue meetings with Member State
-- Adoption of Common Provisions Regulation and
Fund specific Regulations-• Member State submits Partnership Agreement
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• Thank you for your attention!
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