Transcript Regional Policy

Position Paper Poland
Position of the Commission Services on the
development of the Partnership Agreement and
Programmes in Poland for the period 2014-2020
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Policy
Background
• Pro-active approach: early stage information on
Commission's services position on priorities 2014-20 to
Member State
• Framework for dialogue between Commission services
and Member State
• Closer alignment with EU2020 strategy and Country
Specific
Recommendations
(National
Reform
Programme)
• Poland PP is pilot: submitted to Poland on 28/9/2012
• Launch event with Commissioner Hahn in Warsaw on
5/10/2012
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EU2020 Headline targets for Poland
Europe 2020 headline targets
Current situation in Poland
National 2020 target in the NRP
0.74% (2010)
1.7%
3% of EU's GDP to be invested in research and
development
20% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction compared -4.5% (2020 projections compared to
to 1990
2005)
+12% (2010 emissions compared to
2005)
20% of energy from renewables
20% increase in energy efficiency
9.4% (2010)
96,9 Mtoe (2010)
14%
(national binding target for nonETS sectors compared to 2005 )
15%
96 Mtoe
Reduction by 13.6 Mtoe
75% of the population aged 20-64 should be employed
64.8% (2011)
71%
Reducing early school leaving to less than 10%
5.4% (2010)
4.5%
At least 40% of 30-34 years old completing tertiary or
equivalent education
35.3% (2010)
45%
Reducing the number of people at risk of poverty or 10.4 million at risk of poverty (2010) Decreasing by 1.5 million people
exclusion by at least 20 million in the EU (compared with
over 2010 levels
2008 levels)
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Challenges for Poland I
• Network infrastructure
• Poor technical condition railway network
• Ageing rolling stock
• Low density motorway network
• Low broadband penetration
• Outdated energy network
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Challenges for Poland II
• Innovation friendly business environment
• Low level of R&D/GDP: 0.74% (2010)
• Low level of private R&D: only 7% of firms apply R&D
• Weak linkages between science and industry
• Fragmented research and innovation system
• Limited availability of risk capital
• Underutilised potential of e-economy
• Need for more business friendly administration
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Challenges for Poland III
• Labour market participation
• Low labour market participation: 64.8% (2011); target
71%
• Second lowest employment rate older workers in EU
(especially women)
• One of lowest exit ages from labour market
• Deteriorating situation of youth on the labour market
• Lack of affordable childcare
• Education: quality and mismatch skills and labour market
needs
• High share of population at risk of poverty
• Restructuring of some sectors (e.g. agriculture)
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Challenges for Poland IV
Resource efficiency and low carbon economy
• PL economy twice as energy consuming as EU average
• Deficiencies in energy production, transmission and
distribution
• Underutilised potential renewables (RES)
• Continuing deficiencies in waste water treatment
• Waste management: too many landfills, insufficient
recycling
• Insufficient anti flood prevention and preservation of
natural resources
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Four Priorities for funding in Poland
• Modern network infrastructure for growth
and jobs
• Innovation friendly business environment
• Increasing labour market participation
through improved employment, social
inclusion and education policies
• Environment
friendly
and
resource
efficient economy
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Link between Funding Priorities and
Thematic Objectives
Funding priorities
Modern network infrastructure for growth and jobs
Innovation-friendly business environment
Related thematic objectives
Promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network
infrastructures;
Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors
(network infrastructure);
Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, information and
communication technologies (network infrastructure);
Strengthening research, technological development and innovation;
Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, information and
communication technologies (non-network infrastructure);
Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises,
the agricultural sector and the fisheries and aquaculture sector;
Enhancing institutional capacity and an efficient public administration;
Increasing labour market participation through improved Promoting employment and supporting labour mobility;
employment, social inclusion and education policies
Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty;
Investing in education, skills and lifelong learning;
Environment-friendly and resource-efficient economy
Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors (nonnetwork infrastructure);
Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management;
Protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency.
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Modern network infrastructure
for growth and jobs
• Absolute financial terms: largest funding
area; relative share: decrease in
comparison to 2007-13
• Improving accessibility
• Modernisation of energy networks
• Increasing take up of ICT
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Modern network infrastructure
for growth and jobs
• TO 7: Promoting sustainable transport and removing
bottlenecks in key network infrastructures
• TO 4 (part): Supporting the shift towards a lowcarbon
economy
in
all
sectors
(network
infrastructure)
• TO 2 (part): Enhancing access to, and use and quality
of, information and communication technologies
(network infrastructure);
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TO 7: Promoting sustainable transport and removing
bottlenecks in key network infrastructures
• Relevant CSR:
• Strengthen the role and resources of the railway market regulator and
ensure effective and swift implementation of railway investment
projects
• Railways: TEN-T and connectingsecondary/tertiary nodes
• Modernise existing corridors, complete gaps, deployment ERTMS
• Modernise rolling stock
• Road: TEN-T and connecting secondary/tertiary nodes
• Complete gaps in core TEN-T road network
• (Re)construction of main road corridors connecting growth poles and
peripheral regions
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TO 7: Promoting sustainable transport and removing
bottlenecks in key network infrastructures
• Environment friendly and sustainable urban transport
• Intelligent transport systems and mobility plans, clean vehicles,
integrate different modes and service providers
• Intermodal transport systems and logistic centres (rail, sea and air
ports)
• Shift from road transport to other modes (especially rail)
• Promote alternative low carbon fuels
• Success factors: improve strategic planning, development
of sustainable and prioritised project pipeline (with Jaspers
support), strengthen administrative capacity (PKP PLK),
restructure pricing and maintenance systems to increase
competition
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TO 4 (part): Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon
economy in all sectors (network infrastructure)
• Develop and modernise energy distribution systems
• Low voltage electricity distribution networks, including smart grids an
integration of distributed generation with the grid
• Develop/upgrade urban heating networks
• Success factors: bulk of investments should be made by
private sector; public support should be complementary
and where possible via revolving funds/guarantees. Public
support should target market failures and development of
new
technologies.
Effective
and
stable
regulatory
framework should be in place (e.g. Energy Performance
Contracting)
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TO 2 (part): Enhancing access to, and use and quality
of, information and communication technologies
(network infrastructure)
• Extend broadband deployment and the roll out of high
speed networks
• Develop next generation access (NGA); normal broadband only in
remote/rural areas
• Develop complete solutions: distribution and access networks,
including “last mile” investments with focus on remote/rural areas
• Success factors: public support should target market
failures and leave other investments to private sector;
importance of technical neutrality; notify state aid schemes
on time; explore synergies with other infrastructure
projects (e.g. combine works for broadband with road
works)
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Innovation friendly business environment
• Increase of allocation, both in absolute and
relative terms
• at least 50 % of ERDF resources to energy efficiency and
renewables, ICT, innovation and SME support (Mazowieckie:
60%)
• Increasing private R&I investment
• Enhancing business innovation and
competitiveness
• Development of e-economy
• Access to finance and advanced business services
• Efficient and business friendly administration
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Innovation friendly business environment
• TO
1:
Strengthening
research,
technological
development and innovation
• TO 2 (part): Enhancing access to, and use and quality
of, information and communication technologies
(non-network infrastructure)
• TO 3: Enhancing the competitiveness of small and
medium-sized enterprises, the agricultural sector and
the fisheries and aquaculture sector
• TO 11: Enhancing institutional capacity and an
efficient public administration
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TO 1: Strengthening research, technological
development and innovation
• Relevant CSR:
• Take additional measures to ensure an innovation-friendly business
environment, by ensuring better links between research, innovation
and industry, and by establishing common priority areas and
instruments supporting the whole innovation cycle; improve access to
finance for research and innovation activities through guarantees and
bridge financing.
• Strengthen private R&I investments
• Support to innovation, especially in SMEs, applied research, pilot lines,
early product validation, Key Enabling technologies, eco-innovation,
support to innovative start ups, co-inventions (cooperation POL and
foreign firms), joint science-industry sectoral funds
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TO 1: Strengthening research, technological
development and innovation
• Develop R&I Infrastructure and centres of excellence
• Improve quality of research centres in Poland to develop R&I
excellence, in order to stimulate and undertake collaborative projects
with businesses and foreign research centres for co-inventions
• Create innovation friendly environment for innovative
businesses
• Cluster policy, business networks, technological and science parks,
incubators, high quality and tailor made services, internationalisation,
financial instruments, support to patents/IPR
• Success factors: improve coordination between science and
innovation and industrial policies on the basis of review of
Polish economy (Foresight 2030); coordination between
smart specialisation strategies at national and regional
level; early involvement of stakeholders in design and
planning of policies
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TO 2 (part): Enhancing access to, and use and quality
of, information and communication technologies
(network infrastructure)
• Develop ICT products and services, e-commerce and
enhance demand for ICT
• Create new, innovative e-services for business and science
• ICT applications in support of sustainability and competitiveness of
remote and rural areas
• Strengthen ICT applications for e-government
• Support new applications linked to e-procurement, e-learning, eculture, e-inclusion, e-health in line with EU Digital Agenda
• Improve interoperability and accessibility of various systems
• Success factors: experience 2007-13: improve coordination
in ICT including improved delivery of projects (preparation,
targets, implementation) in the area of e-government and
B2B solution. There should be clear quantifiable results for
society
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TO 3: Enhancing the competitiveness of small and
medium-sized enterprises, the agricultural
sector and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
• Increase productivity through entrepreneurship and
innovation
• Investments in machinery/equipment to adopt innovative technologies
and produce innovative products
• Promote innovation among SMEs (product, process, marketing,
management/organisation); experimentation and commercialisation of
innovative solutions
• Tailored financing schemes based on risk sharing (venture capital,
business angels, grants)
• Support structural changes by developing new business
models in SMEs
• Support internationalisation and cooperation with other firms outside
Poland, stimulate eco-innovation (e.g. use of renewable energy
sources), application of green technologies
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TO 3: Enhancing the competitiveness of small and
medium-sized enterprises, the agricultural
sector and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
• Effective business support environment contributing to
innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalisation
• Targeted advisory services for e.g. start ups, access to new markets,
resource efficiency, technology transfer, participation in clusters
• Offer comprehensive package of support tools, combining grants (for
start ups and early stage projects) and revolving funds (for more
mature investments)
• Success factors: better coordination of different innovation
related strategies at national and regional level; gap
analysis to understand financing needs of SMEs and in
order to design the appropriate financial instruments;
facilitate access to capital markets and simplify regulatory
procedures for SMEs
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TO 11: Enhancing institutional capacity and an
efficient public administration
Investments need to be concentrated on the basis of a clear
strategy for reinforcing administrative efficiency.
Objectives:
• Reduce administrative burden and barriers for enterprises,
• Improve the system of transposition and implementation of EU
Directives,
• Improve access and efficiency/quality of judiciary system,
• Develop e-government with better integration and standardisation
of offered services.
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Increasing labour market participation
through improved employment, social
inclusion, and education policies
• Increase of relative share in allocation in
line with stipulations in new Regulations
2014-20
• 20% ESF to social inclusion/poverty
reduction
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Increasing labour market participation
through improved employment, social
inclusion, and education policies
• TO 8: Promoting employment and supporting labour
mobility
• TO 9: Promoting social inclusion and combating
poverty
• TO 10: Investing in education, skills and lifelong
learning
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TO 8: Promoting employment and
supporting labour mobility
Relevant CSRs:
Objectives identified in the CPP
To reduce youth unemployment, increase Increase the employment rate of young
availability of apprenticeships and work- people through measures supporting
based learning.
quicker and more successful transition
from school to work and a "youth
guarantee".
Reinforce efforts to increase the labour
market participation of women and raise
enrolment rates of children in both early
childcare and pre-school education by
ensuring stable funding and investment in
public infrastructure, provision of qualified
staff and affordable access.
Increase the employment rate of women
through better access to child care
facilities and flexible work arrangements.
Tackle entrenched practices of early
Increase the employment rate of older
retirement to increase exit ages from the
people through tailored and efficient
labour market.
Regionalactive and healthy ageing measures.
Policy
TO 9: Promoting social inclusion and
combating poverty
Relevant CSRs:
Objectives identified in the CPP
To combat labour market segmentation •
and in-work poverty.
CSRs for thematic objective ”Promoting •
employment and labour mobility” also
apply adjusted to the needs of the most
vulnerable groups.
•
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Reduce social discrepancies in access to
affordable, sustainable and high-quality
services, including childcare, health
care and social services of general
interest.
Increase the employment rate of
groups at risk of social exclusion
through active inclusion measures
(disabled persons, youth and other
disadvantaged groups).
Explore job potential of the sector of
social economy through development of
sustainable social enterprises.
TO 10: Investing in education, skills and
lifelong learning
Relevant CSRs:
Increase
the
apprenticeships
learning.
Objectives identified in the CPP
availability
of •
and
work-based
Improve the quality of vocational training
and adopt the proposed lifelong learning •
strategy.
Better match education outcomes with
the needs of the labour market and
improve the quality of teaching.
•
•
•
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Improving the quality, efficiency and
openness of tertiary and equivalent
education through better programmes,
didactic facilities and teaching and
strengthening links with businesses.
Increase
participation
in
lifelong
learning, particularly of older and low
skilled persons.
Modernise vocational training system.
Ensure equal access to good-quality
and financially sustainable childcare
facilities.
Targeted measures improving quality of
primary and secondary education.
Success factors TOs 8-11
- Ensure fulfillment of ex-ante conditionalities (especially in
relation to strategies for poverty reduction, tertiary education,
health sector and public administration),
- Ensure a strong policy framework and ownership of measures,
- Ensure job efficiency of actions addressed to individuals,
- Tailor and restrict systemic solutions to alleviate existing legal
and institutional bottlenecks,
-Ensure complementarities of funds at policies level in order to
establish clear targets and investment needs and translate them
into practice through specific implementation solutions, especially
for investments in education, health, good governance and
support to enterprises,
-Ensure a relevant implementation set-up compatible with a share
of responsibilities for policies- EMPL position: keep the current
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model of implementation.
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Environment friendly and
resource efficient economy
• Relative increase of allocation, especially for
energy efficiency and renewables
• At least 6% of ERDF for shift to low carbon economy
(Mazowieckie; 20%)
• A shift to an energy efficient, low carbon economy
• Environment protection and improved
management of natural resources
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Environment friendly and
resource efficient economy
• TO 4 (part): Supporting the shift towards a lowcarbon economy in all sectors (non-network
infrastructure)
• TO 5: Promoting climate change adaptation, risk
prevention and management
• TO 6: Protecting the environment and promoting
resource efficiency
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TO 4 (part): Supporting the shift towards
a low-carbon economy in all sectors
(non-network infrastructure)
• Relevant CSR:
• Step up efforts to improve incentives for investment in energy
generation and efficiency.
• Promoting energy efficiency
• Support deep energy retrofitting of public buildings and private housing,
incl promotion of nearly zero energy buildings an efficient cooling and
heating systems; investments in public lighting
• Strengthen energy efficient measures in services, industry and
agriculture, by promoting energy efficiency measures (especially SMEs)
incl recovery of industrial waste heat
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TO 4 (part): Supporting the shift towards
a low-carbon economy in all sectors
(non-network infrastructure)
• Supporting investments in RES (renewables)
• Increase share of RS in final energy consumption by production of
electricity, combined power heating generation (CHP), heating and
cooling from RES
• Investments in facilitating reception of RES
• RES in transport: biofuels
• Promotion of use of RES in SMEs
• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture and
forestry
• Success factors: focus on market roll out of new generation
of technologies (SET Plan); coherent, stable and
predictable RES policy; bulk of investments by private
sector; public support should target market failure and use
where possible revolving funds
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TO 5: Promoting climate change adaptation, risk
prevention and management
• Adaptation to climate change in the field of water
management and flood prevention
• Sustainable water management incl. water efficiency, water retention,
effective spatial planning considering inundation areas and natural
water retention
• Flood prevention measures incl. flood risk mapping, flood prevention
projects at river basin level, in coordination with neighbouring
countries and development of appropriate monitoring tools
• Adaptation to climate change in other areas (forest
management, land use, management of coastal zones)
• Forest protection belts against erosion and fire
• Afforestation and planting of forest belts alongside water courses;
improved soil management
• Integrated, sustainable development of coastal zones with link to
Baltic Sea strategy
• Improve disaster management systems and risk prevention
management
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TO 5: Promoting climate change adaptation, risk
prevention and management
• Success factors: set up of climate change strategy (due in
early 2013); coordination of actions in field of flood
prevention through integrated planning and efficient
project pipeline; implement acquis related to river basin
management plans; flood risk mapping in compliance with
Floods Directive; strengthen governance and institutional
capacity
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TO 6: Protecting the environment and promoting
resource efficiency
• Investments in water and waste sectors to fulfil
requirements of EU legislation
•
•
Treatment of waste water (extension of collection system, modernisation of
WWTPs, sludge treatment), water (drinking water infrastructure, water
treatment, leakage reduction)
Support waste infrastructure in line with waste hierarchy with priority for
prevention, re-use and recycling; landfilling needs to be reduced
• Improvement of urban environment, incl regeneration of
brownfield sites and reduction of air pollution
• Air quality measures for sectors causing largest pollution, drainage,
soil desealing measures, rehabilitation of contaminated sites
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TO 6: Protecting the environment and promoting
resource efficiency
• Protection of biodiversity, soil protection and promoting
ecosystem services and green infrastructures
• Management and restoration of valuable areas in particular Natura
2000
• Support transition to environmentally sustainable farming practices
and fisheries/aquaculture
• Success factors: transposition and implementation for
relevant environmental directives linked to strengthening
of institutional capacity of authorities to implement and
manage projects; financing to Natura 2000 in line with
Prioritised Action Framework
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Ex-ante conditionalities
• ex-ante conditionalities are preconditions relating to
the effective and efficient use of EU Funds
• Most relevant for Poland are:
• develop a comprehensive national transport plan (covering in
particular rail and road transport);
• develop a national or regional research and innovation
strategy for smart specialisation (including an ICT chapter)
and a national next generation access (NGA) plan;
• provide actions for effective implementation of the Small
Business Act;
• develop a national strategy for poverty reduction;
• develop a national or regional strategies for increasing tertiary
education attainment;
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Ex-ante conditionalities
• ensure the effective implementation of EU environmental “acquis” in
the sectors of waste management (Directive 2009/98/EC) and water
management (Directive 2000/60/EC) as well as horizontal provisions
concerning environment impact assessment and strategic environment
impact assessment (Directives 85/337/EEC; 2001/42/EC);
• transposition into national law of Renewable Energy Directive
(2009/28/EC);
• ensure a strategy for reinforcing administrative efficiency including
public administration reform;
• ensure national or regional strategy for health ensuring access to
quality health services and economic stability;
• in fisheries, improve data collection for fisheries management (to
ensure a smooth shift from direct to shared management) and the
implementation of a Union control, inspection and enforcement
system.
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Governance of Cohesion Policy in Poland
• Distribution budget between national and regional
programmes
• The performance and absorption rates of the majority of the 16
regional programmes are very satisfactory. An eventual larger share
for the regions in the total budget will be conditional on better
coordination between regional and national policies.
• Number of national OP's
• Large national operational programmes had a slow take off mainly due
to complex coordination structures and a large share of complex major
projects. The Commission will support any proposal reducing the
complexity and accelerating the take off of programmes. A larger
number of national sector OP's could be considered 1) environment,
climate change and energy, 2) transport, 3) research and innovation,
4) information society
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Governance of Cohesion Policy in Poland
• Multi fund OP's?
• New Regulations offer to Member States option of ERDF/CF/ESF OP's
• Integrated approach and better coordination is not automatically
guaranteed by multi fund OP's: each proposal will have to be assessed
on its own merits and added value
• ESF: keep the current model of implementation and ensure
complementarities at policies level: clarity on targets and investment
needs and
translate them into practice through specific
implementation tools
• Role of key projects
• EC has no objections against the concept of early identification of
projects of strategic importance, but it should be used only for those
projects which are really of strategic importance
• Ministry for Regional Development should take initiative for definition
and clear guidelines for selecting and preparing key projects
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Governance of Cohesion Policy in Poland
• Development of coherent strategic frameworks for
important areas of investment co-financed by EU Funds
• Strategies need to become less fragmented, stable for a longer period
and should be in place at the start of the next programming period.
This will help to select the best quality projects.
• This applies for example to innovation (smart specialisation strategy),
rail and road infrastructure (Masterplans for rail and road) and
broadband/ICT (Digital Agenda for Poland)
• Follow up on implementation of public procurement rules
and environmental legislation
• national legislation is now compliant with EU directives and
implementation of the legislation is also secured
• Nevertheless, continuous efforts should be made to inform and train
potential beneficiaries to follow up the correct procedures in order to
avoid financial corrections afterwards
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Tools for territorial dimension
• ITI: Integrated Territorial Investment
• Support from different priority axes of one or more OP's to achieve
integrated investment in a particular territory
• Can be both top down or bottom up: clear strategy should be in place
for the related territory
• ITI's should be mentioned separately in each OP with indication of
financial allocation from each priority axis
• Management ITI: either by managing authority or sub-delegated to
intermediate body
• Member States should indicate in their Partnership Contracts the
arrangements for the use of ITIs.
• Minimum 5% of ERDF earmarked for integrated sustainable
development
• To be implemented via ITI's with delegation to cities: degree of
delegation depends on national context
• List of cities mentioned in the Partnership Contract for Urban
Development Platform should correspond to ITI for sustainable urban
development
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Tools for territorial dimension
• CLLD: Community Led Local Development
•
•
•
•
Strictly bottom up approach for a well defined area
Small scale
Local action group determines content strategy and operations financed
under it
Multi annual strategy to encourage innovation at local level via networking
and local public private partnership
• Link with macro strategies like e.g. Baltic Sea
Strategy
•
Poland should seek synergies with neighbouring countries in the areas of
research and technology transfer, infrastructure, protection of the
environment and risk prevention, especially water in the Baltic Sea
catchment area, and sustainable economic development at sea
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Timetable
• Sept/Oct 2012: Position paper submitted to Poland and
launch event in Warsaw
• Nov 2012 –mid 2013: Informal dialogue meetings and
technical meetings between EC and Poland
• Q2/Q3 2013 (tentative): submission draft Partnership
Agreement Poland to EC
• EC: negotiation mandate and observations on Partnership
Agreement sent to Poland within 3 months after submission
• End 2013: Adoption Partnership Agreement
• Q3/Q4 (tentative): submission of OP's Poland to EC
• EC: observations on OP's within 3 months after submission
• May 2014 (tentative): ultimate deadline for adoption of
OP's
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For more information
InfoRegio:
ec.europa.eu/inforegio
RegioNetwork:
www.regionetwork2020.eu
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