“Local development as a key pillar of post-2013
EU integrated territorial policies”
Wladyslaw Piskorz
Head of Unit ‘Urban development, territorial cohesion’
European Commission Directorate-General for Regional Policy
Seminar organised by the CEMR, COSLA and AMR
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Brussels 29 November 2011
Community-led local development:
key features
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Endogenous development
Community led
Area-based
Bottom-up
Integrated approach
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Community-led local development
Past and present EU experiences
Broader local development approach
• EQUAL (partnerships), Territorial Employment Pacts
• Urban Community Initiatives (integrated approach &
community involvement), mainstream cohesion policy
programmes for 2007-2013 (eg. community
development in Northern Ireland)
Community-led local development
• Roots in LEADER (EAFRD) and Axis 4 of the EFF
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Community-led local development
• At present local action groups of EAFRD and EFF
potentially benefit from other EU Funds, but not in a
coordinated way
• The common approach for all policies as set out in
the proposed provisions will enable Member
States/regions and local action groups (LAGs) to
coordinate the integrated use of all CSF Funds
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Common strategic approach
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Legal proposals by the CSF Funds for 2014-2020
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A common instrument and goal of the CSF funds to
support community-led local development, based on
a single set of rules with policy-specific features
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Cohesion Policy, Rural Development, Maritime and
Fisheries
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Definition – Art. 28 § 1
(a) Focused on specific sub-regional territories, which can be
urban, rural, coastal, cross-border or a mix of several
(b) Community-led: implemented by the local community through
public-private partnerships - cannot be implemented by the
municipality alone
(c) Carried out through integrated and multi-sectoral area
based local development strategies: (selected jointly under
the responsibility of the relevant managing authorities; Art.
29.3)
(d) Takes into consideration local needs and potential,
including local innovation, networking, cooperation
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Guiding principle – Art. 28 § 2
• Consistency and coordination of the support to
CLLD between the CSF Funds
 ensured through coordination of:
– Capacity building
– Selection and approval of the local development
strategies
– Funding of the implementation of the LDS
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Management at the level of Member
States/regions
• Local development strategies are selected for EU
funding under the responsibility of the relevant
managing authorities (Art. 29.3)
• Strategies can be financed from one or several EU
Funds in parallel (Art. 29.5)
 “Multi-funding” as an option
• For simplification, a a „lead Fund“ can be designated
in the case of multi-fund strategies (Art. 28.3 + 4)
covering for the management costs
 choice of the lead Fund depends on the activities
foreseen and the area in question
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Example of a „multi-fund“ CLLD strategy
Project 1
ERDF
Running costs,
animation,
networking
Possibly
though „lead
Fund“
Project 2
ESF
ESF
EAFRD
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY
EMFF
ERDF, CF
Project 3
EAFRD
Project 3
EMFF
Local action group
Local governments
Local entrepreneurs
Local NGOs, civil society
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Local development strategies
Requirements (Art. 29.1):
• Definition of the area and population covered by the strategy
(subject to delegated acts, Art.29.6);
• Analysis of the development needs and potential of the area,
including SWOT
• Description of the strategy and its objectives, a description of
the integrated and innovative character of the strategy, including
clear and measurable targets for outputs or results.
• Description of the process of community involvement in the
development of the strategy;
• Action plan demonstrating how objectives are translated into
actions;
• Description of the management and monitoring arrangementsof
the strategy, demonstrating the capacity of the local action group
to implement the strategy, and a description of specific
arrangements for evaluation;
• Financial plan of the strategy, including the planned allocation of
each of the CSF Funds.
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Selection/approval process of local
strategies - Art. 29 §2 to 5
• MS define selection criteria
• Selection undertaken under the responsibility of
relevant managing authorities (jointly)
• The decision to approve a local development strategy
by the managing authority should:
– set out the allocations of each CSF Fund
– set out the roles of the authorities responsible for the
implementation of the relevant programmes for all
implementation tasks relating to the strategy
• Decision on “lead Fund” at the level of each LDS (Art.
29.4)
• LDS should be approved by the end of 2015 to allow
sufficient time for implementation
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Local action groups (LAGs) – Art. 30
• Legally constituted structure or lead partner in administrative
and financial matters (Art. 30.2)
• Composition: no interest group should represent more than
49% of voting rights (part of the CLLD principle; Art. 28.1)
• Project selection – at least 50% of the votes from non-public
sector partners
• Local action groups should at least:
– Carry out capacity building actions for local actors
– Draw up project selection criteria, assess and select
operations for financing under the local development
strategy (… role of the managing authority in the approval of
the projects remains an administrative and political choice in
each MS, see Art.30.3 f)
– Monitor the implementation of the local development
strategy and the operations supported, evaluation activities
• Local action groups can fulfil additional functions
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Interventions eligible under
community-led local development
Art. 31
The CSF Funds can cover:
• costs of preparatory support
• implementation of operations under the local
development strategy
• preparation and implementation of cooperation
activities of the local action group
• running costs and animation of the local
development strategy up to the limit of 25 % of the
total public expenditure incurred within the local
development strategy
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Community-led local development
under the Cohesion Policy
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Local development approach is optional for ERDF and ESF. Member
State indicates in the OP whether and where community led local
development will be implemented - can be entire territory
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Incentives:
– Where MS decides to create a dedicated priority axis for communityled local development, the co-financing rate can be increased by
10% points;
– Reimbursement of management costs of the local action groups who
apply for support from several EU Funds through the ”lead Fund”
option;
– For ERDF and ESF, all actions under community-led local
development can be financed under thematic objective 9: promoting
social inclusion and combating poverty
• ERDF: investment priority 9b “support for physical and
economic regeneration of deprived urban and rural
communities”, regardless of the nature of interventions involved
• ESF: priority (c) - (vi): “community-led local development”
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LEADER – Community-led local
development under EAFRD
• LEADER is compulsory with at least 5% of the
EAFRD funding per Member State. MS indicates in
the Rural Development Programme where LEADER
(CLLD under EAFRD) will be implemented - can be
the entire territory
• In accordance with Art. 28.5, LEADER is not
restricted to any of the EU priorities for rural
development
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FARNET – community-led local development
under the EMFF
• Objectives: local development strategies shall
– maximise the participation of the fisheries sector in
the sustainable development of fisheries areas;
– ensure that local communities fully exploit and
benefit from the opportunities offered by maritime
and coastal development.
• No ring-fencing but Axis 4 of current EFF is 13%
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Thank you for your attention!
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