1 Territorial cooperation & Territorial cohesion - Brussels - 25 September 2009 1 EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Contribution to the debate on the

1 Territorial cooperation & Territorial cohesion - Brussels - 25 September 20091

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Contribution to the debate on the Green paper on territorial cohesion

Brussels – 25 September 2009

Michel LAMBLIN | Programme Director

Contribution to the debate on the Green paper on territorial cohesion

Brussels – 25 September 2009

Michel LAMBLIN | Programme Director


1- What role should the Commission play in encouraging and supporting territorial cooperation?

• to highlight the need for cooperation

• to further develop the promotion of existing results

• to reaffirm the need for innovation in every Territorial Cooperation programme

2- Is there a need for new forms of territorial cooperation?

Evolution more profitable than revolution:• massive dissemination and use of the existing stock of good practice,

• improvement of existing programmes and procedures,

• increase of the ERDF budget

• think of the subsidy rate (75% - 85% at the moment)

• reinforce the integration role of the regional policy towards thematic DGs

3- Is there a need to develop new legislative and management tools to facilitate cooperation, including along the external borders?

•a specific TA rate for cooperation (up to …%)


Possible improvements for IRC

• enlarge the thematic areas of Innovation and Environment to further themes, such as:

regional policy management (in order to improve the capacity building);

territorial governance;

other territories, not covered at present (not urban, nor regional) metropolitan areas, rural/urban interface;

integrated sustainable development;

• the future interregional cooperation programme should be the natural platform to facilitate the transfer of cooperation results to regional operational programmes;

• to imagine devices to improve the access to IRC programmes for small public entities/authorities;


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Crossborder



Transnational



Interregional


Although IRC (InterRegional Cooperation) does not concern directly a territory, has this type of programme a “territorial” impact?

Yes, as much as any other regional (territorial) programme, which can be improved through IRC


• 1 EU Programme - 321 M€ - Subsidy rate 75/85%

• Exchange & Transfer of good practices in the fields of Innovation & Environment

• Dedicated to Public local and regional Authorities

INTERREG IVC

INTERREG IVC characteristicsINTERREG IVC characteristics

• Improve the effectiveness of regional development policies (and contribute to economic modernisation and competitiveness of Europe

by

• Enabling exchange of experiences and knowledge, matching less experienced with more advanced regions, ensuring transfer of identified good practice into mainstream programmes

Objective


INTERREG IVC 321 M€ _______________ = __________

Σ Structural Funds 347 000 M€

~ 1 °/°°

INTERREG IIIC experienceINTERREG IIIC experience

Good practices identified Good practices transferred

6400 1650

Policy instruments addressed Policy instruments improved

2100 860

Reminder of INTERREG IIIC (2002/2006 – 264 projects – 2634 Cities and Regions involved)


Distribution of the 9000 public authorities

within the two first calls for projects (2 x 500 projects submitted)


Programme Priorities

Priority 1: Innovation and Knowledge Economy (177 M€ ERDF)

Priority 2: Environment and Risk Prevention (125 M€ ERDF)

INTERREG IVC characteristicsINTERREG IVC characteristics

Regional Initiative Projects

Exchange of experience and good practice, development of tools and instruments of regional policies

Capitalisation Projects

Capitalisation projects: optimise results achieved, transfer of good practices identified into mainstream programmes

Types of Interventions


Soon, we’ll start capitalisation at programme level:

• clustering projects working on similar issues;

• drawing lessons from their findings;

• publicising the lessons learnt for the benefit of all local and regional authorities and Managing authorities of Convergence and Competitiveness programmes.


Where are we?

1st Call (2008): - 500 projects received involving 5000 public authorities (400 eligible)

- 41 projects approved for 70 MEUR

2nd Call (2009):- 500 projects received (400 eligible)

- ~ 60 projects recommended for ~100 MEUR

- Decisions early November in Stockholm

3rd Call (2010): - only Capitalisation projects and

- limited at 15 MEUR


Thank you for your attention!

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