Managing Authorities of the ETC
programmes
Annual Meeting 22.4.2013
W Piskorz, Head of Unit
Competence Centre Inclusive Growth, Urban and
Territorial Development
DG Regional and Urban Policy, EU Commission
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Proposal for Cohesion Policy
2014-2020 - objectives:
• Deliver the Europe 2020 strategy objectives of
smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
• Focus on results
• Maximise the impact of EU funding
• A stronger territorial approach
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CPR invites Member States to
address territorial challenges
• Analysis of Member State's or region’s development
potential and capacity (national, regional and local
characteristics);
• Assessment of major challenges to be addressed by the
region or MS;
• Assessment of cross-sectoral, cross-jurisdictional or
cross-border coordination challenges;
• Identification of steps to achieve improved coordination
across different territorial levels and sources of funding
to deliver an integrated approach linking EU2020 with
regional and local actors.
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Why the need for a comprehensive set
of territorial strategies?
• Territorial imbalances between regions, within regions
and urban areas
• Stronger involvement of local and sub-national levels
are needed to achieve Europe 2020 objectives
• Multi-level governance – shared ownership
• COM proposed flexible tools for implementing integrated
territorial strategies
• Use of territorial tools justified by an integrated
approach for territorial development – to be described
in the Partnership Agreement
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Tools for integrated territorial
development
• Integrated territorial investment (ITI): allows drawing
funds from at least two priority axes in the same or
different programmes to implement territorial strategy in
an integrated manner.
 Option for ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund - EAFRD and EMFF can
contribute (eg. functional areas).
 Integrated territorial strategies
• Community-led local development (CLLD) – joint
initiative of four EU Funds to support implementation of
joint bottom-up local development strategies (based on
"Leader" approach).
 Option for ERDF, ESF, EMFF, compulsory for EAFRD
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Urban and territorial dimension of the future CP
Sustainable urban
development
ITI
Multithematic
priority axis
"Urban" investment
priorities
Cross-border
cooperation
Community-led local
development
OP
URBACT
Urban
development
network
Urban innovative
actions
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ITI – Integrated territorial investments
under the ETC
• Article 10 ETC - ITI can be delegated to an EGTC or a
legal body established under the laws of one of the
participating countries, provided that the latter is set up by
public authorities from at least two participating countries.
• Under ETC an ITI has to have cross-border impact
and to benefit both sides of the border.
• ESF type actions possible under ETC Article 6.
• Primary use of ITI within single cooperation programme,
but involving funds from other ERDF/ESF or even
EAFRD/EMFF programmes operating in the cross-border
area is possible.
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ITI - Example of possible use
• Cross-border urban area has common challenges and
potential (integrated labour market, cross-border public
transport, etc.) and a territorial strategy to exploit its
potential.
• ITI can be applied to this territory, and it has the possibility
to draw funding from mainstream programmes also (ERDF,
ESF, EAFRD, EMFF)
• Existing legal cross-border structure could take up tasks
• e.g. Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai is an EGTC and
has a territorial strategy in place
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Community-Led Local Development
article 28§1 of CPR
a) focused on specific sub-regional territories;
b) community-led, by local action groups composed of
representatives of public and private local socioeconomic interests,(at decision making level a single
partner not to represent more than 49% of voting rights)
c) carried out through integrated and multi-sectoral areabased local development strategies;
d) designed taking into account local needs and potential,
include innovative features in the local context, networking
and where appropriate, cooperation.
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Community-led local development (CLLD)
under the ETC
• ETC Article 9 – CLLD bottom-up strategies can be supported
provided that the Local Action Group (LAG) is composed of
representatives of at least two countries, of which one is a
Member State.
• Important that LAG reflects cross-border dimension also in
terms of languages covered.
• Under ETC, in operations carried out by two or more
beneficiaries, a lead partner should be designated among them.
• Some differences as compared to CPR Art. 28-31 on CLLD,
eg.
- ETC Art. 11
on selection of operations by Monitoring
Committee, Art. 17 on specific rules on eligibility of expenditure
established by Monitoring Committee, Art. 18 providing a
framework for staff costs.
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ITI
CLLD
Urban development strategy or other
territorial strategy or pact
Flexible – but generally top-down,
public sector-led
Target areas or the principles by which
strategies will be selected should be set
out in Partnership Agreement
Bottom-up integrated area-based
strategy
Bottom-up, community-led (public,
private, civil society)
MS define selection criteria and target
areas, selection of CLLD strategies
through competitive procedure by
responsible MA(s)
Sub-regional (10.000–150.000
inhabitants (except duly justified cases)
Single fund or several funds (ERDF,
ESF, EAFRD and/or EMFF)
Any size as long as focused on a
coherent functional geography
Single fund (ERDF, ESF or CF) or
several funds (ERDF, ESF and/or CF
complemented by EAFRD and/or EMFF)
Implementation by designated
intermediate body or MA
Optional
Strategy & implementation by local
action group
Optional (except for EAFRD)
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Next steps
Partnership Agreement (PA)
• Analysis of territorial of challenges and needs
• MS approach to and implementation arrangements for ITI and
CLLD need to be described - ensure ETC is included if planning to
use these tools.
Operational programmes (OP)
• Indicative financial allocation from each priority axis to ITI.
• Where appropriate, approach to the use of CLLD and the principles
for identifying the areas where it will be implemented.
• Shall be programmed under one specific investment priority in order
to facilitate programming (but can be used to achieve results which
contribute to all thematic objectives included in the CPR, in line with
the objectives of a relevant programme).
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Role of future URBACT
Among others,
provide support for the effective use of the new territorial
instruments, Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) and
Community-led local development (CLLD)
• Capacity building
• Networking
• Identification and dissemination of good practice with a view to its
transfer to operational programmes under the Investment for
growth and jobs goal and the European Territorial Cooperation goal
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For more information
InfoRegio:
ec.europa.eu/inforegio
RegioNetwork:
www.regionetwork2020.eu
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