Transcript EU Cohesion Policy Development

EU Cohesion Policy Development
ESPON 2013 Programme
Open Seminar
Territorial Challenges and Cooperation in
a Wider Europe
Portorož, 2 June 2008
DG REGIO
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Content
• The agenda of cohesion policy
• Territorial cohesion
• The role of ESPON
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The agenda of cohesion policy
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Reinforcing the integrated approach
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Addressing the future challenges of EU regions
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Internal and external coherence of the policy
Coordination of structural funds
Regional and local dimensions
Results oriented
Globalisation
Climate change
Energy prices
Demography
Social inequalities
Territorial cohesion
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Territorial cohesion
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What are the implications?
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What is territorial cohesion?
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Need to have a common understanding
A policy of sustainable development resting on making the best
value of a diversity of opportunities and potentials.
High diversity in the understanding of the concept
A policy which makes the best value of a diversity of
opportunities and potentials
What should be its main components?
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Multi-level, cross-sectoral, approach…
Taking into account the specificities of EU territories and…
…recognising that space is an asset
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Milestones
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These elements will be developed in a series of key
documents
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5th progress report
Regions 2020
Study on the future content and management of cohesion
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Green Paper on territorial cohesion
5th Cohesion Report
And within the context of the ongoing budget
review
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The role of ESPON
(Picked up within a long list):
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Refine and improve our measurement capacities
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Better understanding of how the challenges we
face in the future will affect EU regions
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Assess the impact of policies on regions and
territories
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Provide policy makers the knowledge on the
development of the European territory
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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)
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More and better jobs
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attract and retain more people in employment and
modernise social protection systems
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improve adaptability of workers and enterprises and
the flexibility of the labour market
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increase investment in human capital through better
education and skills
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administrative capacity
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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
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5,6
9,0
Spain
13,8
17,6
19,0
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Portugal
21,2
44,5
51,2
61,7
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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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