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Position Paper
Hungary
Position of the Commission Services on
the development of the Partnership Agreement
and Programmes in Hungary
for the period 2014-2020
Launch Event
9th November 2012, Budapest
Why a position paper?
• Pro-active approach: early stage information on
Commission's services position on priorities 2014-20 to
Member States
• Closer alignment with EU2020 strategy and Country
Specific
Recommendations
(National
Reform
Programme)
• Commission's view on development needs, challenges
and priorities
• Framework for dialogue between Commission services
and Member States
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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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Socio-economic situation in Hungary
• Slow growth and contracting internal demand,
fragile fiscal situation
• Expected only growth-driver: net export, but
insufficient integration of Hungarian SMEs in
global economy
• Low employment rate, high level of low skilled
people and high inactivity rate
• Important regional disparities, rural urban divide,
marginalised population
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Socio-economic situation in Hungary
(cont.)
• Low R&D spending and insufficient innovation
• Low productivity and added value (processing) in
the agricultural sector; structural disadvantages
• Poor performance of transport systems
• Vulnerability to climate change (flood&droughts)
• Fragmentation and degradation of natural
habitats
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Europe 2020
Headline targets for Hungary
Europe 2020 headline targets
3% expenditure on R&D (in % of GDP)
20% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction compared
to 1990 (both ETS and non-ETS)
20% renewable energy
(in overall energy consumption) including 10% use of
renewables in transport
20% increase in energy efficiency (%)/368 Mtoe Reduction
of primary energy consumption
Current situation in
Hungary
1.16% (2010)
National 2020 target in the
NRP
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1.8 %
-26 % (2020 non-ETS
projections compared to
2005)
-14 % (2010 non-ETS
emissions compared to
2005)
+10 %
(national binding target for
non-ETS sectors compared
to 2005)
8.68 % (2010)
14.65 %
4.7% (2010)
10%
24 Mtoe
(total primary energy
consumption)
2.96 Mtoe saving
75% employment rate (population aged 20-64)
Share of early school-leavers max. 10%
60.7 % (2011)
11.2 % (2011)
(=24.89 Mtoe total
consumption in 2020)
75 %
10 %
Tertiary education 40% among population aged 30-34
28.1 % (2011)
30.3 %
-160 000 (2010)
Index 2008
450 000
Reduction of the population at risk of poverty or social
exclusion by 25%, lifting 20 million people out of poverty.
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Challenges for Hungary
• Weak enterprise competitiveness; insufficient
R&D and limited access to finance
• Incompleteness and insufficient operation of
infrastructure
• Low employment level and weak social
cohesion; low quality of public services
• Inefficient use of natural resources
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Funding priorities
1. Enhancing business innovation, competitiveness and
the effectiveness of R&D
2. Sustainable and interconnected infrastructure and their
efficient use
3. Increasing the level of employment through
economic development, employment, education and
social inclusion policies, taking account of territorial
disparities
4. Environment-friendly and efficient use of resources;
climate change resilience
No ranking, complementarity and mutual
reinforcement
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Funding priority 1
Competitiveness
Enhancing business innovation, competitiveness and
the effectiveness of R&D - SMEs
• Innovation and internationalisation of enterprises, esp.
SMEs
 Cooperation: research, higher education, innovators
 Embedding multi-nationals into local research and
economic network
 Integration of Hungarian entreprises to global value
chain
 Tailor-made financial instruments; targeted schemes
 Development of ICT products, services and use
(including in rural areas)
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Funding priority 1
Competitiveness
Enhancing business innovation, competitiveness and
the effectiveness of R&D (cont.) – research, growth
poles
• Investments in research and R&D centres of excellence;
transfer of R&D results towards SMEs
 complete Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project
 Specific strategy for environmental and agricultural
sectors (promote bio-economy, eco-innovation,etc.)
• Multipolar development through regional growth poles and
innovative clusters
 Smart specialisation strategies
 Balanced multipolar development (poles: university
cities)
 Integrated Territorial Invesments (ITI)
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Funding priority 1
Competitiveness
Enhancing business innovation, competitiveness
and the effectiveness of R&D (cont.) –
agriculture, rural economy
• Increasing SME contribution to the rural economy, and
enhancing the competitiveness of the agricultural sector
 Innovative approaches for the agricultural sector and
rural areas
 Adding value locally through processing and quality
development
 Structural changes
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Funding priority 2
Infrastructure
Sustainable and interconnected infrastructure
and their efficient use – energy, water, waste
• Energy infrastructure
 enhanced cross-border capacities
 smart grids to support energy efficiency improvements
• Drinking water quality improvement; monitoring
• Waste water infrastructure completion and interconnection
• Waste management (including in agriculture) investments to reuse, recycle and recover
Complementary measures, actions to eliminate
bottlenecks
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Funding priority 2
Infrastructure
Sustainable and interconnected infrastructure
and their efficient use (cont.) - transport
• Improving integration, sustainability and cost-efficiency of
urban, regional, national and transnational mobility systems
 Complete TEN-T corridors, including signalling and control
systems
 Focus on railways and public transport modernisation
 Improve navigability on the Danube and the River
Information Systems
 E-toll, congestion charges and network rationalisation
Complementary measures, identify and eliminate
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bottlenecks
Funding priority 3
Employment (1)
Increasing the level of employment through
economic development and employment
policies, …
• Increasing the capacity of public employment
services, strengthening active labour market policies
 Active and preventive labour market measures to be
put in place
 Enhance the efficiency and the capacity of the Public
Employment Services (PES)
 Facilitate geographical and professional mobility
 Promote lifelong learning participation
 Support self-employment, entrepreneurship and
business creation activities
 Possibility for Community–led Local Development
instruments
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 Support non agricultural SMEs in rural areas
Funding priority 3
Employment (2)
… through the integration of the vulnerable
groups using a holistic approach
(employment, education, housing, health,
access to services),
 Improve the activity rate of vulnerable groups, the
situation of marginalised groups by implementing the
Social Inclusion Strategy
 Promote social economy, new business models and
innovative solutions for social enterprises
 Increase accessibility to health care and social services
 Continue the de-institutionalisation process
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Funding priority 3
Employment (3)
… through improving the quality of education and
ensuring equal access thereto, in particular in
pre-school (including childcare) facilities and
higher education,
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Improve the links between education and labour market
Prevent early school leaving
Ensure access to early childhood education
Maintain tertiary education participation
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Funding priority 3
Employment (4)
… as well as improving services to citizens and
businesses through an efficient and financially
sustainable public administration
Reduce administrative burdens
Continue the reform of the public administration
• Introducing e-government and one-step government
windows
• Supporting the allocation of adequate human
resources for the most sensitive areas
 Improve the judiciary system
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Funding priority 4
Resource-efficiency
Environment-friendly and efficient use of
resources; climate change resilience
• Integrated development and management of Hungarian
rivers and water resources
 Risk management (plans and monitoring)
 Flood management including the restoration of
floodplains and wetlands
 Improving the efficiency of water use
 Preserving natural environmental values
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Funding priority 4
Resource-efficiency
Environment-friendly and efficient use of
resources; climate change resilience
• Improving energy efficiency and enhancing renewable energy
production and use
 In constructions, buildings and housing
 Sustainable renewable energy supply: wind, bioenergy, solar and geothermal energy
 Energy and environmental awareness
 Innovative energy technologies and projects in
agriculture and forestry
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Funding priority 4
Resource-efficiency
Environment-friendly and efficient use of
resources; climate change resilience (cont.)
• Protecting the environment, ecosystem and landscape,
preserving biodiversity
 Management and restoration of Natura 2000 and high
nature value areas
 Soil protection
 Targeted afforestation
 Sustainable farming practices/organic farming
 Development of ecosystem-based approaches
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European Territorial Cooperation
• Transnational and cross-border dimensions, including
the framework of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region
notably in:
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R&D&I
Low-carbon economy
TEN-T networks
Water and flood management, risk prevention
Employment, education and inclusion
Incorporating the EUSDR objectives in all
programmes
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Territorial development
• Simplification of current programming architecture
 reduced number of programmes
 balance of sectorial and territorial dimensions
• Integrated Territorial Investments (ITI)
 Require appropriate planning, governance and
management: most suitable at NUTS-3 levels
(counties) and for major cities
• LEADER and Community Led Local Development
 convenient for local initiatives e.g. micro-regions
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Success factors
Some ex-ante conditionalities
• Comprehensive multimodal transport plan
• National research and innovation strategy
• Active labour market policy (modernise labour market
institutions)
• Strategies to reduce early school-leaving; to improve tertiary
education attainment, quality and efficiency
• Strategy for poverty reduction and Roma inclusion
• Implementation of EU acquis in wastewater and waste
management
• Strategic policy framework to reinforce administrative efficiency
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Approach : Strategic,
integrated and coherent
Funds and instruments:
synergies and coordination
Existing
experience
Preserving
knowledge
Improved
management
capacities
Succesful
delivery
(Beneficiaries,
MAs, IBs)
Result
orientation
Focused
interventions
Financial
instruments
Partnership, nondiscrimination, sustainable
development
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Public procurement,
fraud prevention, audit
• Public procurement is the single most important
domain to ensure sound management of the Funds.
 Reinforce capacities of actors in award and control of
contracts
 Independence of the Department of Public Procurement
Controls
 Online procurement processes
 Implement and reinforce the anti-corruption
programme
 Independece and professionalism of the audit
authority.
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Timeline
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Proposals
for
Cohesion
Policy
2014-2020
Commission
proposal for
Common
a
Strategic
Multiannual
Framework
Financial
Communication
Framework
from the
Position
paper and
launch
event
Agreement
on
MFF and
adoption of
new
legislative
package
Adoption of
Partnership
agreement
and
programmes
2014
Commission
June
2011
Oct.
2011
Dec.
2011
Oct-Nov.
2012
First semester
2013
Informal dialogue,
technical meetings,
draft documents
end 2013
Negotiations,
submission of
Partnership
agreement and
programmes
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• Thank you for your attention!
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