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 EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
Brussels, 31.3.2010 
SEC(2010) 360 final 
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COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT 
Accompanying document to the  
 
COMMUNICATION FROM THE CO MMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL 
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMI TTEE OF THE REGIONS 
 
Cohesion policy: Strategic report 2010  
on the implementation of the programmes 2007-2013 
  
{COM(2010) 110}  
1. INTRODUCTION  
This staff working document is a compani on document to the Communication COM(2010) 
110.  
This document presents in Section 2 a s hort narrative on the progress reported by the 
Members States in selecting projects and on early evidence on outputs and results in the 
period 2007-2013.  
Section 3 presents an indicativ e selection of 40 good practices examples provided by Member 
States in their national strategic reports. 
Section 4 is composed of explanatory texts explaining the annexes attached as follows: 
ANALYSIS OF PROJECTS SELECTED 
• ANNEX I: Projects selected: Gl obal progress reported by the Member State in selecting 
projects 
• ANNEX II: Projects selected: Global Progress in implementing the Community Strategic 
Guidelines 
• ANNEX III: Projects selected: Global Progress  in implementing the Lisbon earmarking 
priorities within the Community Strategic Guidelines–by Objective 
• ANNEX IV: Projects selected: Pr ogress in implementing the Li sbon earmarking priorities 
– by objective and by Member State 
• ANNEX V: Projects selected: Progress in implementing Community Strategic Guidelines 
by 86 Priority themes 
CORE INDICATORS 
• ANNEX VI: Core Indicators - summary of use of core indicators by the EU-27 
EN 1   EN 2. SUMMARY OF REPORTED PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTATION AND EARLY OUTPUTS 
AND RESULTS  
The Community Strategic Guidelin e (CSG) was structured in thre e Guidelines with a section 
dealing with the territorial dimension of c ohesion policy. Each Guideline is composed of 
several 'CSG themes' and each of these themes ge nerally is composed if one or a number of 
the specific 86 "Priority themes" or investment  categories used in the "categorisation" 
information exchange system. 
The Annex V provides detailed ov erview of how the 86 Priority  themes have been regrouped 
around the CSG themes of the three Guid elines and the territorial dimension. 
2.1. Guideline: Attractive pla ces to invest and work 
This Guideline encompasses the following CSG themes: rail, road and other transport; 
environment; energy; broadband and cultural and social infrastructures. These CSG themes 
regroup a certain number of 86 priority themes. Fo r example, following priority themes fall 
under the Rail CSG theme: Railways, Railways ( TEN-T), Mobile rail assets, Mobile rail 
assets (TEN-T).  
In the transport CSG theme, the overall level of select ed project across all modes stands at 
26.2%, which is close to the average rate of  programme implementation across all sectors 
(27.1%). Earmarking is mostly targeted at TEN-T and TEN–E along with the sustainable 
energy themes.  
The level of selected projects in roads and motorw ays sector is higher than in the rail sector 
(34.4% versus 22.5%). Most Cohesion Member States (CZ, EL, HU, LT, LV, PL, PT, RO) 
have mostly selected road projects in the framework of their regional and/or national 
programmes - with the notable excep tion of Estonia (81.2% of select ed projects in rail instead 
of 63.2% in the road sector). For example, new roads were developed along a TEN corridor by Slovenia achieving a total reduction of journey time equal to 21 million EUR. As for rail projects, some Member States (e.g. PL) report a lack  of an appropriate project pipeline and 
difficulties related to spatial planning.  
Other than Estonia, the Member States having a project selection rate higher in rail than in 
roads are FR, IT and NL. In Bulgaria, the projec t selection rate is very low (5%) for both rail 
and road sectors. In many other new Member Stat es, the low rate of contracted funds probably 
results from a delay in project preparation. Slow development in the rail sector emerges as an 
important policy issue in the Commission's ex po st evaluation of the 200 0-2006 period; this is 
clearly an area which needs to be addr essed in the current programming period. 
In the energy -CSG theme, the level of advancement is particularly low as the volume of 
selected projects stands at 13.2%. Several Member  States are in a situ ation of major delays 
with no or little progress (BG, ES, EL, LV , PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, UK). On the other hand, 
there are also some positive examples with good level of selected projects (FR, CZ, LT). 
Looking at specific themes, investments in ener gy efficiency (20.9% allocated) are ahead of 
the energy sector but it is largely due to the excellent progress in 3 Member States (CZ, IT, LT) which represent 75% of the current allocations to energy efficiency from CP. Several 
other Member States (BG, ES, PL, PT, RO, UK) report no or very little allocations to energy 
efficiency while it can be part of the solution to meet the mandatory renewable energy targets 
by 2020. Investments in wind energy (only 2.9% a llocated) or TEN-E (no allocation yet) also 
EN 2   EN need to be much more looked at. Overall the energy priorities are doing better in the Regional 
Competitiveness and Employment (RCE) regi ons than in the Convergence ones. 
Due to the slower implementation of projects in the field of energy, there is generally no data 
available on core indicators in those areas. 
The broadband infrastructure  project pipeline is being fi lled though only 18.1% of total 
funds are so for allocated to projects. Mark ed differences exist between convergence and 
competitiveness regions, with 10.2% and 5 9.1% of the funds a llocated to projects 
respectively. Progress shows str ong variations among Member States as well. Poland foresees 
the most ambitious broadband investment plan with an amount close to 1 billion EUR, whereas programme implementation (only 0.9% allo cated) is apparently  hampered by rapidly 
changing market conditions. On the other ha nd, delivery seems to accelerate in some 
countries (UK, SE, SI). Ireland reports some 34764additional users prov ided with broadband 
coverage by the end of 2009, some 31% of the ov erall target, while in Northern Ireland a plan 
for a next general access (NGA) project is presented as good practice in the UK national 
report. 
The overall level of investments in the environment  is underperforming at this stage. The 
volume of selected projects in this CSG them e reaches 21% of the de cided amounts in the 
Programmes. This overall average hides neverthele ss a landscape of very diverse situations at 
national and sector level. Some  specific Member States (CZ,  EL) face major delays to 
implement projects. On the other hand some ot her Member States (EE, ES, HU) show a good 
level of progress demonstrating the feasibility of implementing projects in the environmental 
area.  
At sector level while invest ments in waste water treatm ent are performing well (27,5% 
allocated, except for CZ (4.4%) and EL (5.5%)), those in "risk prevention" and "rehabilitation 
of industrial sites and contaminated la nd" are lagging behind (only 12.2% and 12.1% 
allocated respectively).At a time when regions need  to adapt to climate change, i.e. cope with 
increased risk of natural disast ers (flooding, forest fires, stor ms…) the uptake of investments 
in "risk prevention" is especially weak in some Member States (ES, EL, HU, PL, RO). A 
positive development is the higher absorption of environmental projects under the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) programmes (3 1.3%) underlining the a dded-value of cross-
border cooperation in this area.  
Progress in selecting projects in the cultural and social infrastructure CSG theme (schools, 
hospitals, social centres) is ge nerally above the average at 32.6% of projects selected. Within 
those Member States that have important allocation (mostly convergence beneficiaries) six report above average progress (EE, ES, HU, MT, PT, SI) while five are lagging (CY, EL , IT, 
LV, RO). A wide range of rate s of progress is reported within  the specific priorities.  
2.2. Guideline: Improving knowledg e and innovation for growth 
Cohesion policy programmes play a cruc ial role in strengthening Europe's innovation and 
research and potential with an overall allocat ion of 49.7 billion EUR to core innovation and 
research priorities in the EU-27
1. The major share of research  and innovation investment, 37 
                                                 
1 The broad innovation agenda included entrepreneurship, ICT use and ESF support to innovation in the 
work place – see SEC(2006) 1547, 14.11.2007 -  
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/working/doc/SEC-2007-1547.pdf  
EN 3   EN billion EUR, is concentrated in convergence regions, while a considerable 11.4 billion EUR is 
allocated in RCE objective regions.  
Concerning programme implementation, encourag ing progress can be seen since on average 
28.5% of the total in novation and research funding in EU-27 have been allocated to selected 
projects. Furthermore, convergen ce regions appear to  perform slightly be tter on average in 
terms of delivering their priorities with 29.3% of funds being allocated  compared to 26% in 
RCE regions. Striking disparities can be obs erved among Member States. While some are 
well above the average speed of  project selection BE, DK, IT , LT, MT, PT, SE, SI), other 
countries (SK, CZ, EL) seem to lag behind significantly with  progress levels below 10%. 11 
Member States have programme or approved project targets to s upport 9,764 RTD projects, 
while 10 of these Member States plus one other have targets to support 4,587 co-operation 
projects between enterprise s and research institutions. 
In the Entrepreneurship CSG theme (covering two specific t ypes of business support), some 
8.4 billion EUR is foreseen to be spent at EU  27-level in the period 2007-2013. Overall, the 
implementation phase seems to be advancing well in convergence re gions (28.8% of total 
programme budget allocated), whereas it is slow er in RCE programmes (only 21.2% of total 
funds have been allocated to projects). Again variations ca n be detected across Member 
States. Many countries (BE, BG, FI, EL, LV , PL, SE, SI, UK) have demonstrated good 
progress in delivery with pr oject pipeline filling-up well above the average, whereas, 
implementation still needs to gain momentum es pecially in AT, ES, HU, IT, NL, PT and RO. 
Little information on outputs or  results is reported by Memb er States in the field of 
entrepreneurship. However, Germany reports 1,12 6 materialised projects  in support of SMEs, 
whereas the aggregated target number reported for projects supporting start-ups is 26,493, out 
of which 2,224 have been achieved so far. 
The total budget foreseen in the cohesion  programmes for the pe riod 2007-2013 in the 
information and communications  (ICT) applications  is 12.9 billion EUR, which represents 
3.7% of the total cohesion polic y spending in the EU-27. On av erage, only 22.1% of the ICT 
funds have been allocated to  projects with marked diffe rences between regions. In 
competitiveness regions, the pace of progress is  slow with only 14.6%, while in convergence 
regions this ratio reached 24% already. For exam ple, SK and FI have programmed the largest 
shares in their ICT investments (close to 10%), but they seem to lag in delivery together with 
other Member States (BG, CZ, NL) with only 13 ,5% and 4,9% of the funds being allocated to 
projects respectively. However, in other countries (ES, HU, IT , PT, SI), progress has been 
strong so far. 
Only four Member States ha ve reported on core indicato rs in this sector with 2,546 
information society-related projects being committed in total. 
The total sum of investments in the CSG theme " other investments in enterprise" , which 
includes the bulk of the access to financial capital, is around 14 billion EUR with the majority 
(11,5 billion EUR) concentrated in convergence regions. This CSG theme shows the strongest 
progress under thus Guideline so far in te rms of implementation with 40.3% of the budget 
already allocated to selected projects. Impl ementation has been the most advanced (41.2%) 
within this theme in convergence  regions, while in competitiveness regions it is also ranked 
high (36.3%). The progress in this theme is no doubt linked to the accelerated use of non-
grant instruments such as loan s, risk capital, grants and bank guarantees, which have been 
EN 4   EN accelerated in response to the economic crisis , via financial engineering including the 
JEREMIE initiative and linked to the temporary state aid framework as part of the EERP. 
2.3. GUIDELINE : MORE AND BETTER JOBS  
The role of the European Social Fund in implementing recommendations of the European 
Employment Strategy is pointed out  in the vast majority of nati onal reports, only with regard 
to few Member States this role is illustrated pa rtially (LT, NL). The priority areas of the EES 
and guidelines are addressed in Programmes financed by the ESF carried out at the Member 
States level. 25.3% of the earmarked allocatio n has been already spent in the convergence 
regions and 29.2% for the regional competitiveness and employment regions, and respectively 16.3% and 15.9% for non-earmarked funds. Some country specific examples are provided 
further in this section. 
Improving human capital CSG theme was supported by the ESF and covered education, 
training and life-long learning (CY, CZ, EE, ES, IT, LV, PT , PL, SI), intervening key 
transitions such as from school to traini ng and from training to employment (DE) and 
increasing students' competences, reducing dr op-outs and broadening population’s learning 
opportunities (CY, IT). 27.8% of the funding availa ble has been already allocated. As regards 
education and training, the ESF funds were used for co-financing interventions supporting 
modernisation and equal opportu nities in education (BG, CY, CZ, ES, HU, PL, UK), 
improving educational offer at primary (EL,  PL, UK), secondary (CY, DK, PL, UK) and 
tertiary levels (CZ, PL), enhancing vocationa l training (CY, ES, PL, PT, SE, UK), developing 
the life-long learning system (CZ, EE, ES, IT, PL, PT, SK, UK) and providing more equal 
access to it (FR, UK), reducing the rate of early  school leavers and the share of low-achieving 
young people as regards basic skills (EE, ES , IE, PT, UK) and improving matching of 
education and the needs of  the labour market and better anticipation of future skills (CY, FI, 
IT, SE, UK). 
Regarding activities supporting labour markets , 26.2% of the available funding has been 
allocated. The ESF supported the access to em ployment for disadvantaged persons or those 
excluded from the labour market, the empl oyment of women through facilitating the 
reconciliation of work and family  life (ES, IT, PL), active labour  market policies (CZ, EE, ES, 
IE, IT, LV, NL, PL, SI) and active ageing (AT, IT , PL, SI). The ESF contributed to improving 
adaptability, for instance for making the access to training easier by supporting companies for 
the development of their human resources (DE,  ES), improving workers' skills (EE, IT, LV, 
NL, PL, UK), offering professional training for employees working at enterprises hit by the 
crisis (ES, IT, LV, PL, UK), li nking university education to th e needs of the labour market 
(CY, IE, UK) and by supporting persons w ith poor qualifications (ES, IE, UK). 
With regard to support measures aimed at enhancing social inclusion  for less favoured 
persons and 25.1% of the funds ha s been allocated. Member Stat es have used the financial 
resources from the ESF for supporting inte rventions improving the access of vulnerable 
groups to the labour market and to education, help ing for re-entry into the labour market (FR, 
IT, NL), promoting special measures for integr ation and active inclusion of vulnerable groups 
(BG, CY, CZ, ES, HU, PL, SK), developing new social services and improve access to 
healthcare (BG, PL). The efforts were taken al so to reduce the risk of poverty and social 
exclusion (CY), to support ente rprises' efforts to develop an  active policy on human resources 
(DK) and to provide good quality and long worki ng life (EE, PL). ESF also helped facing the 
challenges related to poverty and exclusion asso ciated with being out of work and for people 
living in rural and deprived areas (PL, PT).  ESF co-financed actions aimed at increasing 
EN 5   EN participation of migrants in employment and stre ngthened their social integration (ES, IE, IT), 
reinforcing social inclusion of persons with disabilities and immigrants (EL, ES, IE, UK) and 
enhancing of equal opportunities in particular  through different training programmes and 
other education initiatives (MT, SK, UK). Ac tivities aimed at improving inclusion in the 
labour market have been realised so far with a lower volume that was initially planned (FI). 
While overall progress is reasonable in some Memb er States there are delays. This is partly 
due to social inclusion bei ng tackled not evenly across the funds and programmes.  
In the capacity building and partnership CSG theme the spending le vel is lagging behind 
and the average performance stands at 18.8%. It  has reached only one-d igit figure in ES, IT, 
LT, PT and UK. The scope of actions incl udes enhancing mechanisms for improving good 
policy and programme design, monitoring and ev aluation and promoting the partnerships, 
pacts and initiatives th rough the networking of relevant st akeholders. The observed delay in 
implementation of measures co-financed by the E SF in this field can be explained to some 
extent by the fact that they are often channelled by multi-ministerial programmes, delaying the process of decision making. The approach and methods of management used by some 
institutions in Member States are not sufficient for reinforcing the effectiveness and efficiency 
of implementation. Some of the challenges are still pending like necessary adjustments of the 
public administration and absorption of available resources. 
2.4. Territorial dimension 
In the national reports the te rritorial dimension described in the Guidelines is found in 
different ways. 
Firstly, many programmes take expl icit account of the territorial  dimension when addressing 
their thematic priorities under the Convergence and RCE objectives. This is reflected most 
visibly in various good practi ces examples presented.  
Another example comes from the different wa ys the Member States chose to implement 
transnational cooperation in thei r ESF programmes: 47 programmes in 7 Member States have 
a priority axis on trans-nationality, while 6 Me mber States included dedicated measures in 
one of their programmes. Managing Authorities  for more than half of the programmes 
adopted a horizontal approach with the possibil ity to fund transnationa l activities in one or 
several priority axis. This shows the level of  diversity in programmi ng and suggests that 
coordination among Member States is  a crucial but challenging task. 
Secondly, some priority themes of support di rectly address territorial opportunities or 
disadvantages. An analysis of the data on im plementation shows project selection reaching 
more than 30% in such priority themes, with  the spending on the opportunities in the areas of 
urban and rural regeneration and tourism serv ices above this aver age. For example, 1696 
urban development projects have been committe d by CZ, HU, PT and 133 have been actually 
realised by BG, EE and LU. HU and PL report the commitment of 539 projects aimed to 
develop the tourism industry whereas BG, EE and LT have alre ady implemented 92 projects 
in this field. 
The special financial allocations for the out ermost regions introduced in the current 
programming period fall under thus heading also . These allocations allow ERDF to cofinance 
operational costs in order to offset the costs these regions are facing due to their handicaps 
EN 6   EN defined in the Treaty2. The implementation of that new allo cation obliged the national and/or 
regional authorities to put in place new procedures and to notify specific state aid schemes. 
Thirdly, The European Territori al Cooperation (ETC) objective ( 2.5% of total EU  budget) is 
dedicated to promoting cooperati on across territories – both transn ational and cross border. In 
relation to ETC programmes, more th an two thirds of Member States3 address the value added 
of ETC to their regional de velopment policies. Some of these Member States are 
characterised by a high proporti on of border regions and a dive rsified spatial structure and 
they consider the cooperation programmes as complementary to their mainstream 
programmes. The new generation of ETC programme s supports the regional integration of the 
outermost regions with their neighbours includin g a reinforcement of the cooperation with the 
actions supported under the European Develo pment Fund. Within the ETC programmes 
projects selection is running at 24,1% with  progress on Lisbon priorities running at around 
20%. 
Finally, the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is discussed in six reports4. 
They emphasise their interest in this strate gy in terms of improved multilevel governance, 
involvement of stakeholders and new strate gic guidance for the territories at inter-
governmental level. FI and LV have already taken measures to align co-funded programmes 
with the objectives of the st rategy, SE has examined how co-funded programmes can support 
the objectives of the strategy, while EE and LT ar e examining the possib ilities to align with 
the strategy. 
3. INDICATIVE SELECTION OF GOOD PRACTICES EXAMPLES  
An indicative selection of 40 of the 220 projects identified by th e Member States is presented 
below. These projects or schemes are presen ted under the three guidelin es of the Community 
Strategic Guideline and the territorial dime nsion. The full texts of these examples are 
available in the national repor ts which contain around 220 exampl es of projects, schemes or 
programming techniques that they have se lected from the ongoing programmes 2007-2013 (or 
sometimes from the programmes 2000-2006). At l east one example of good practice for each 
Guideline is provided by nineteen Member St ates. Around 15% of all examples fall under the 
Guideline "Attractive places to invest and wo rk". The Guideline "Improving knowledge and 
innovation for growth" is illust rated by approximately 30% examples, while the Guideline 
"More and Better Jobs" is repres ented by 33% of all examples. Finally, 20 % of the examples 
in the Member States reports give examples of the territorial dimension. The remainder of 
projects relate to programming meth ods (selection procedures, etc.). 
To access the national reports and their good prac tice examples, the Commission has gathered 
links to the national reports in the national la nguages (sometimes with translations provided 
by the national authorities): http://ec.europa.eu/re gional_policy/policy/ reporting/index_en.htm   
                                                 
2 Articles 349 and 355.1 of the TFEU. 
3 All except PL, ES, BE, HU, LU, RO, SI, based on the reports themselves. 
4 DK, EE, FI, LI, LV, SE – not PL, DE 
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1. GUIDELINE: ATTRACTIVE PL ACES TO INVEST AND WORK 
 
BG OP: Transport  Fund: ERDF EU: 157,4 m €  
Title: Extension of Sofia Metro line 2  
Project description: The project covers a 6.5 km section with 7 metro stations. Five stations will be 
new constructions, while two others  (n° 9 and 10) already built are in need of renovation, as is the 
tunnel in between. The construction started in Decemb er 2008 and is planned to end in 2012. It is the 
first approved major project 2007-2013 in Bulgaria  
 
CY OP: Sustainable development Competitiveness  Fund: ERDF/CF  EU: 38.16 m €  
Title: Renewal of the port of Limassol  
Project description: The aim of this project, co-financed under the 2007-2013 programming period, 
is to upgrade the competitiveness of the port of Li massol in the context of  the Mediterranean sea 
shipping sector.  
 
ES OP: Castilla-La Mancha  Fund: ERDF  EU : 5.6 m €  
Title: Instituto de Sistemas Fotovoltaicos de Concentración  
Project description: Located in Castilla-La Mancha, the project  consists in the construction of pilot 
plants using different photovoltaic technologies w ith the aim of commercial exploitation based on 
reliability, performance and ease of maintenance. 
 
FI OP: Northern Finland  Fund: ERDF  EU: 0.055 m €  
Title: Retail unit accessibility and CO2 emissions in Oulu  
Project description: Evaluate the optimal location of large co mmercial retail units in the Oulu region 
based on residential and workplace locations and sh opping patterns by computing the CO2 emissions 
using GIS-applications and data sources. The ai m is to create a method fo r estimating the optimal 
location for new shopping centres based on minimisation of CO2 emissions.  
 
FR OP: Martinique  Fund: ERDF  EU : 89 m €  
Title: "Transport Collectif en Site Propre"  
Project description: The project aims to improve progressively the public transport. The realisation 
of 14 km of a tram communication between Lamen tin and Fort-de-France is  foreseen. The transport 
capacity will rise to 2,700 passengers per hour.  
 
IE OP: Border, Midland and Western RCE  Fund: ERDF  EU: 36 m €  
Title: National Broadband Scheme  
Project description: This national scheme seeks to extend broadband coverage to previously 
unserved areas of the country – thus assisting in the attainment of a key strand of government policy in 
the area of digital communication.  
 
MT OP 1 -  Competitiveness  Fund: CF EU: 49 m €  
Title:  TEN-T infrastructure reconstruction and upgrade  
Project description: The Malta Transport Authority aims to re construct and upgrade five sections of 
the Trans-European Network – Transport road ne twork. 20km of upgraded road will improve road 
security and business access both within and to and from Malta  
 
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PL OP: Infrastructure and Environment  Fund: ERDF  EU: 139 m €  
Title: E77 - Expressway S7 section Grojec-Bialobrzegi  
Project description : The project – a section of the TEN-T route E77 connecting Riga, Warsaw and 
Budapest - aims to increase th e capacity of a 17.8km long section, and includes 6 flyovers, 9 road 
bridges and 6 pedestrian overpasses.  
 
RO OP Environment  Fund: CF EU: 3.2 bn €  
Title: Reform of the water system  
Project's description: creation of the regional operators to s upport large investment projects and to 
ensure a proper water management; all the water pr ojects have been prepared based on this reform 
policy (about 40 projects of which 11 already a pproved by the Commission)). All counties will be 
equipped with water infrastructure in compliance with  the EU water Directive in order to be ensured 
the proper living conditions and attractiveness of the regions.  
 
UK OP: Northern Ireland Employment and Competitiveness  Fund: ERDF  EU: 10.3 m €  
Title: Next Generation Broadband project (Northern Ireland)  
Project description: The objective is to encourage and improve  Northern Ireland's infrastructure to a 
next generation, high speed, telecommunications sy stems. The NGBP aims to deliver access for 85% 
of businesses to next generation broadband networks by 2011. 
 
 
2. GUIDELINE: IMPROVING KNOWLED GE AND INNOVATION FOR GROWTH 
 
AT OP: Regional competitiveness - Lower Austria  Fund: ERDF  EU : 5.2 m €  
Title: Integrated location development – "Technopoles"  
Project description: The initiative aims to integrate the three pillars science/research, education with 
economy and develop modern innovatio n hubs at a traditionally industrial location. An example is the 
the technology pole created in Wiener Neustadt. It highlights the importance of consistent, long-term 
approach and the interplay of regional tec hnology and location development and national and 
international research and technology policies.  
 
BE OP: Knowledge economy and innovation  Fund: ERDF  EU:  0.24 m €  
Title: Cleantech, sustainable solutions for more prosperity  
Project description: The objective of the project is to stimulate collaboration between Cleantech 
actors (enterprises, investors, public managers, knowledge centres and consumers) and to assure a 
spread of eco-innovative knowledge. The project tri ggers reactions and responses from the university, 
the Limburg Reconversion Company, the mine towns as well as from private promoters who all develop various initiatives in the Cleantech domain.  
 
DE OP: Sachsen-Anhalt  Fund: ERDF  EU: 45 m  € 
Title: Solar Valley  
Project description: “Solar Valley” focuses on the solar indus try and sub suppliers and is a fast 
growing industrial area in Centra l Europe. Today, more than 90 per cent of all silicon solar cells made 
in Germany are produced in the “Solar Va lley” region, anchored in Sachsen-Anhalt.  
 
EE OP: Development of Economic Environment  Fund : ERDF EU: 77 m € 
Title : Additional loan resources for enterprises 
Project description: The measure has been developed in res ponse to the economic crisis. It provides 
support of maximum 500 000 € for enterprises that have b een affected by the crisis. It is estimated that 
relief can be provided for enterprises employing 22  000 people - a significant figure compared to 
Estonian total workforce of 600 000.  
 
EN 9   EN ETC OP: INTERREG IVC  Fund: ERDF  EU :1.5 m €  
Title: Sharing Experience Europe - policy innovation design 
Project description: The SEE project is a partnership of 11 organisations sharing successful 
innovation policies to the themes of entrepreneurship , sustainability or economic development. This 
group is developing an interregi onal exchange of good practices on innovation and design policy and 
other related areas (e.g. sustainability, R&D). 
 
IT OP: Emilia-Romagna  Fund: ERDF  EU : 34.5 m € 
Title: Regional network of "technopoles"  
Project description: The project strengthens integration betw een the regional R&D system and the 
enterprises, through the creation of a network of thematic "technopoles". These poles will constitute 
the physical infrastructures where research laborat ories and incubators will organise their activities 
and resources and reach the critical mass to compete at international level.  
 
LV OP: Enterpreneurship and innovations  Fund: ERDF  EU : 36,5 m €  
Title: Support to micro and small enterprises in specially assisted areas  
Project description : Project is aimed at increasing activity a nd number of entrepreneurs operating in 
specially assisted areas (97 contracts are being implemented). 
 
LT OP: Economic Growth Fund : ERDF EU: 1.8 m € 
Title: Hydro-Energy Technology Centre  
Project description: Project aims to create modern infrast ructure for a technological centre of 
excellence in the city of Kaunas with a focus on experimental research and development as well as 
fostering products of high value-added.  
 
MT OP: I Competitiveness   Fund:  ERDF  EU:  11,3 m €  
Title: Life Sciences Centre  
Project description: The Life Sciences Centre will have a focus on Life Sciences and associated 
technologies and is aimed to enhance knowledge-based  industrial growth and synergies by providing 
services, common facilities and infrastructure for rese arch, development and i nnovation to take place. 
The main target: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), existing Small and Medium Enterprises  
 
NL OP: Kansen voor West  Fund: ERDF  EU: 1.9 m €  
Title: " Geo Valley" Marknesse  
Project description: The Geomatics Business Park is a busin ess and science park for companies and 
research institutes operating at the interface of  remote sensing, geosciences and information 
technology. An alliance of organisations that market innovative geo-in formation products and 
services, based for instance on remote sensing data. The project offers an ideal location and state-of-
the-art technology and facilities for innova tive and knowledge-intensive companies.  
 
PT OP: Competitiveness  Fund : ERDF EU: 1,7 m € 
Title : Support to SMEs in the area of renewable energy  
Project description : Support to SMEs specialised in industrial production of components for 
renewable energy, especially for wind power plants and for maritime tide energy.  The project aims to 
create 66 new job posts until 2013.  
 
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3. GUIDELINE: MORE AND BETTER JOBS  
 
AT OP: Employment Austria  Fund: ESF EU: 6.3 m €  
Title: Territorial Employment Pacts (TEPs)  
Project's description: Partnerships to link labour market a nd employment policies with other policy 
areas are considered as instrument s to implement cooperative labour ma rket and employment policies. 
Socially disadvantaged persons and those isolated  from the labour market, including persons with a 
migration background, are now increasingly becoming target groups in the pacts.  
 
DK OP: More and Better Jobs  Fund: ESF EU: 3.2 m €  
Title: Fastholdelseskaravanen  
Project's description: In light of the wish to strengthen secondary education in Denmark, this project 
aims at improving completion levels among students with a foreign background and should also be 
seen as a response to the need for well- educated labour in the private sector.  
 
EE OP: Development of Human resources  Fund: ESF EU:  0.32 m €  
Title: Job Seekers  
Project's description: Under the "Job seeker" ESF- project 50 TV programmes are prepared and 
disseminated on national TV. In every programme an entrepreneur is choosing an employee from three 
job seekers whose CV-s have proved to be most suita ble. The impact of the project is expected to 
reach at least 10% of the targeted working-age population.  
 
EL OP: Human Resources development  Fund: ESF EU : 27.2m€  
Title: Support for young scientists to set up their own enterprise or establish themselves in liberal 
profession  
Project Description: The program has provided grants to 2. 830 young scientists. To date, 74% of 
grantees continue to work either as independent prof essionals or as entrepreneurs. 63% of the grantees 
report rising or stable turnover. In addition, it h as been calculated that an average of 0,5 working place 
is created in average in each of these enterprises.  
 
IE OP: Human Capital investment  Fund: ESF EU : 9.5 m €  
Title: The Third Level Access Activity  
Project description: addressing labour market gaps for specific groups that are experiencing barriers 
to participation and employment, including those cr eated by gender inequality and wider inequalities. 
Financial support is provided to in stitutions to support the retention of students from lower socio-
economic backgrounds, students with disabilities a nd those from Traveller and other ethnic minorities.  
 
LT OP: Human resources development  Fund: ESF EU : 0.5 m €  
Title: Balancing work and private life via flexible childcare  
Project description: Project aims to assist people with difficu lties to integrate into the labour market 
due to family responsibilities. In 12 municipalities, longer hours of childcare services are offered to 
children whose parents are working or studying.  
 
NL OP: ESF Objective 2 OP 2007-13  Fund: ESF EU: 2 m €  
Title: Improving employability  
Project description: Project in the carpentry sector hit hard  by the crisis: it includes procedures 
recognizing the earlier acquired competences of the lo w-skilled workers and identifying their needs for 
additional training. The latter is also part of the project. Recognition of their competences and training should increase their employability inside and outside the company.  
 
EN 11   EN  
PL OP: Human Capital  Fund: ESF EU: 340.7 m €  
Title: Entrepreneurship promotion and self-employment  
Project's description:  to provide a comprehensive pack age of support to individuals who 
want to start up a company through: training, advisory services and start-up grants.  
 
PT OP: Human Potential  Fund: ESF EU: 2.5 bn  € 
Title: Initiative New Opportunities  
Project description: Making vocational education a real op tion, giving new opportunities to young 
people, to reduce rate of early school leavers; raising the basic training of the workforce by 
recognizing, validating and certifying competences acquired throughout life.  
 
SE OP: Regional competitiveness and employment   Fund: ESF EU : 0.7 m €  
Title: Företagsakademin (Enterprise Academy 2.0)  
Project's description: aims at skills development within 290 companies in the Malmö Region. 
Courses and seminars are organised based partly on a mapping of the needs of the workers, partly on 
the strategic plans and needs for rest ructuring among the companies involved.  
 
SK OP: Human resources  Fund: ESF EU: 1 m €  
Title: Developing new education programmes in voca tional training for the needs of automotive 
industry  
Project description : The project has helped 7 schools to develop curricula for vocational education 
and training (ISCED levels 3A and 3C). In cooperation with the social partners, 142 students were 
involved and 6 classrooms were fully equipped with new technologies.  
 
SI OP: Human Resources development  Fund: ESF EU : 3.7 m €  
Title: E-VEM for the companies  
Project description: The project provides a suitable electroni c and non-electronic support for the 
future entrepreneur and enables him/her to start with the business operations in the shortest time 
possible. The aim is to simplify the administrativ e procedures, to increase transparency and response 
of the public administration, to increase the access ibility of the services, de crease the costs for the 
future entrepreneurs.  
 
UK OP: England and Gibraltar Convergence, 
Competitiveness and Employment  Fund: ESF EU: 25 m €  
Title: Better West Midlands  
Project description : This redundancy support project offers an  extended range of support and training 
to workers under threat or notice of redundancy, prior to their current employment ending. The aim is 
to maximize their capability to move straight in to new employment. The project will help about 
14,500 people from companies across the West Midlands in manufacturing and other sectors.  
 
 
4. TERRITORIAL DIMENSION 
 
CZ OP: Integrated OP  Fund: ERDF  EU:  193 m €  
Title: Integrated Urban Development Plan  
Project's description: Integrated projects are implemented in selected urban zones. Support is 
concentrated on comprehensive revitalisation or rege neration of the environment in housing estates in 
large cities with problems of social exclusion. An objective is the transformation of dwelling and 
public spaces in housing estates into attrac tive areas and secure spaces for the population.  
 
EN 12   EN  
DE OP: Federal ESF (Bundesprogramm)  Fund: ESF EU: 5.6 m €  
Title: Vocational training without frontiers  
Project's description: The programme helps young people doing vocational training to spend a part 
of their training in another country (cf. table 65).  
 
ES OP Technical Assistance and Transnational Cooperation 
2007-13  Fund: ESF EU: 3.13 m €  
Title: EURoma Network  
Project's description : The aim of the Network is to enhance the effectiveness of policies targeting 
Roma people and to promote their social inclusion. The primary aims of EURoma are the sharing of 
strategies, initiatives and approaches, learning based on experience and good practices, and the 
dissemination and standardisation of such knowledge.  
 
ETC OP: INTERREGIVA North Cross-border cooperation Fund: ERDF  EU:  0.4 m €  
Title: Meänmaa  
Project's description: The project involves the municipalities of Pajala (SE) and Kolari (FI) and aims 
at joint planning for the establishment of two larger  mines in the border area. The cross-border action 
plan will cover 1) Access to mining industry st aff and competence 2) development of a more 
diversified economy and of the attractiveness of the border region 3) support to investments in new 
infrastructure (rail linking to the Finnish railway syst em) and 4) development of the local culture in 
both municipalities.  
 
HU OP: Regional OPs , Social Renewal, Social 
Infrastructure  Fund: 
ERDF/ESF  EU: 2.2 m €  
Title: Complex development program for the most disadvantaged micro-regions  
Project's description: This programme supports projects that promote the long-term development of 
the micro-regions with a view to reduce territorial  and social disparities on micro-region level. The 
project's beneficiaries are local public admi nistrations, their associations, NGOs, enterprises  
 
IT OP: ROP Liguria 2000-6 extended for the period 2007-
13 via an inter-regional project   Fund: ESF EU : 0.9 m €  
Title: Supporting and revitalizing old-time professions  
Project's description:  the project focuses on supporting entrepreneurship and employment to foster 
local development and maintain the local cultural identity. Actions range from counselling, training 
and work experiences to aid to enterprise creation,  network promotion and creation and exchange of 
good practices. Main target groups are young pe ople, employed and unemp loyed adults, over-50, 
immigrants, Roma and Sinti minorities.  
 
EN 13   EN  
4. BACKGROUND TO THE DATA ANALYSED AND INTRODUCTION TO ANNEXES  
4.1. Projects Selected 
Under the provisions governing structural an d cohesion funds programming the Member 
States provide the Commission with informa tion on “allocations to operations selected” 
(referred to in COM(2010)xxx as selected proj ects). The information exchange system is 
known as the "categorisation system" and allows exchange of information on five dimensions 
of the selected projects – prio rity theme, form of finance, territorial dimension, the precise 
NUTS location and the economic dimension. It is th is system that allows , for the first time, 
reporting on the thematic content of cohesion spending based on different cycles of reporting. 
• Information on estimated allocations to select ed projects was presented in the adopted 
programming documents (according to the list of 86 priority themes, the form of finance 
and the territorial dimension). 
• For the Member States' 2009 strategic repor ts the Commission and the Member States 
agreed to exchange data only on the priority themes by objective, with a target date of 
30/09/2009 for extraction. This data, provided  with the strategic reports, allows a 
comparison of the estimates of investment unde r the 86 priority themes in the programmes 
with the actual rate of selection of projects.  
More detailed categorisation in formation on selected projects will be included in the Annual 
Implementation Reports for each indivi dual programmes for 2009 due by 30 June 2010. 
Managing Authorities will report electronica lly, on a cumulative basis, on the volumes 
allocated to selected projects unde r all 5 dimensions of the cate gorisation system and transfer 
this data via the common electronic interface (SFC2007). 
The objective in providing inform ation on selected projects is to give an insight into the 
“project pipeline” of the OPs. Typically proj ects go through the following phases – 1) project 
preparation 2) selection, 3) c ontracting (i.e. procurement wher e relevant) 4) implementation 
and declaration of expenditure and 5) comple tion. Selected projects should not be confused 
with those projects where expenditure has b een declared or the projects are completed. 
The common understanding promoted by the Commi ssion of "selected proj ect" is that they 
have been selected by the Managing auth ority (or other delega ted bodies) following a 
selection process. This may typically involve a grant decision (such as a grant offer letter, or 
other forms of confirmation of inclusion of a project in the OP or allocation of EU funding 
from the OPs). National practices differ and are not regulated by EU  definitions. Some 
variation in practice is to be expected. 
In the national strategic reports, the Member States have generally provided their data on 
financial allocations to selected  projects as at 30/09/2009. Five Member States have extracted 
their data at the more recent date  and one at an earlie r date. This fact shou ld be carefully taken 
into consideration when making comparative analysis.  
In the data presented by the Member States, the following qualificati ons should be made:  
DE: The detailed data provided by DE on allo cations to selected projects by priority 
theme dates only from 31/12/2008. The nationa l authorities were not in a position 
EN 14   EN to provide the detailed break down of the 2009 allocations to selected projects in 
the time available. 
DE has stated that in 2009 a further vol ume of 3.6bn€ was in fact allocated to 
selected projects between 1/1/2009 and 30/09/ 2010. This data is included at the 
bottom of the Annex I but cannot be incl uded in the subsequent tables in the 
absence of a breakdown. Those tables ther efore underestimate the DE allocations 
to selected projects by around 1% overall. 
EE The data provided by EE was extracted on 28/10/2009 EL The data provided by EL was extracted on 05/11/2009 ES The data provided by ES was extracted on 18/01/2010. FR: The data provided by FR was extracted on 11/01/2010. FR/SE Small volumes of allocation to selected projects were not allocated to a priority 
theme code. These have been excluded from this exercise. 
SI The data provided by SI  was extracted on 30/11/2009 
4.2. Lisbon earmarking 
"Lisbon earmarking" is the exercise whereby sub-sets of the 86 priority themes were 
identified as specific priorities under the Lis bon Growth and Jobs Agenda. The definition of 
earmarking was provided in Article 9 and Annex IV of Council Regulation (EC) No 
1083/2006
5. 
For the Convergence objective re gions 47 of the 86 priority themes were identified as 
earmarked priorities, while in Regional Co mpetitiveness and Employment objective regions 
33 priority themes were identified.  
A small number of Member States - CY, EL, ES, FR, PT - agreed with the Commission a 
limited number of national exceptions ("National  earmarking") i.e. incl uding certain priority 
theme codes as national Lisbon earmarked priorities6. 
Investment shares of 60% in Convergen ce objective regions and 75% in Regional 
Competitiveness and Employment objective regions were set for the EU-15 to be achieved in 
these earmarked themes over the programming period. 
4.3. Core Indicators 
During the negotiations on ERDF and Cohe sion Fund operational programmes, the 
Commission strongly recomm ended the use of common minimum core indicators7 concerning 
business support, education, environment, healt h, job creation, information society, research 
development and innovation, tourism, transport and urban development.  
                                                 
5 OJ L 201, 31.7.2006, p. 25. 
6 Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 Chapter IV, Article 9.3, OJ 3 201, 31.7.2006. 
7 Working Document No 2: Indicative Guidelines on Evaluation Methods: Monitoring and Evaluation 
Indicators : http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/working/sf2000_en.htm  
EN 15   EN Eighteen Member States submitted data on core i ndicators in their national strategic reports. 
35 out of 41 core indicators were used. Jobs  created, Number of RT D projects, Number of 
cooperation project enterprises- research institutions, Number of start-ups supported are the 
indicators Member States more frequently re ported on. A summary of the number of core 
indicators use by the Member States in thei r national reports or supporting documents is 
attached in Annex VI.  
More detailed information on progress against core indicators will be included in the Annual 
Implementation Reports for each individu al programmes for 2009. By 30 June 2010 
Managing Authorities will electronically transfer data on the Core Indicators via the common 
electronic interface (SFC2007). Annex XXIII of Regulation (EC)  No 1828/2006 provides data 
on participants in ESF operations by priority. 
EN 16   EN ANNEX I  
Global progress by Member St ate in selecting projects  
MS Programme volumes 
- EU contribution (€)EU amount allocated to 
selected projects (€) % 
AT 1.204.478.581 247.155.550 20,5 % 
BE 2.063.500.766 1.260.898.467 61,1 % 
BG 6.673.628.244 1.348.913.250 20,2 % 
CB8 7.815.224.954 1.882.310.420 24,1 % 
CY 612.434.992 258.686.686 42,3 % 
CZ 26.302.604.484 5.615.772.516 21,6 % 
DE9 25.488.616.290 4.919.757.173 19,3 % 
DK 509.577.239 153.011.045 30,0 % 
EE 3.403.459.881 1.779.726.718 52,3 % 
ES 34.657.733.981 10.099.811.458 29,1 % 
FI 1.595.966.044 505.746.852 31,7 % 
FR 13.449.221.051 3.501.386.380 26,0 % 
EL 20.210.261.445 2.400.948.542 11,9 % 
HU 24.921.148.600 11.541.360.316 46,3 % 
IE 750.724.742 388.568.643 51,8 % 
IT 27.965.315.403 10.633.897.198 38,0 % 
LT 6.775.492.823 2.396.316.031 35,4 % 
LU 50.487.332 14.460.188 28,6% 
LV 4.530.447.634 1.673.017.721 36,9 % 
MT 840.123.051 409.452.037 48,7 % 
NL 1.660.002.737 926.353.744 55,8 % 
PL 65.221.852.992 12.682.948.883 19,5 % 
PT 21.411.560.512 8.136.196.969 38,0 % 
RO 19.213.036.712 2.711.947.484 14,1 % 
SE 1.626.091.888 787.989.893 48,5 % 
SI 4.101.048.636 1.731.582.355 42,2 % 
SK 11.360.619.950 2.106.256.613 18,6 % 
UK 9.890.937.463 3.482.870.901 35,2 % 
Total 344.305.598.427 93.444.474.921 27,1 % 
  
DE 2009 allocations 3.636.194.313  
Total 97.080.669.234 28,2 % 
 
NB – Six MS (DE, EE, EL, ES, FR, SI) have provided their data on allocation to selected projects at dates other 
than 30/09/09. This fact should be carefully taken into  consideration when making co mparative analysis of the 
Annexes. It is recommended to compare MS progress to the EU average rather than making direct comparison 
between MS. 
                                                 
8 CB = Cross Border or European Territo rial Cooperation programme allocations. 
9 DE has reported 3.6bn € allocated to selected opera tions in 2009. It was not in a position to provide a 
thematic breakdown.  
EN 17   EN  
ANNEX II  
Projects selected: Global Progress in implemen ting the Community Strategic Guidelines  
  Decided OPs Allocated to 
selected operations % 
CSG Themes 344.305.598.427 93.444.474.921 27,1% 
Guideline: Attractive places to invest 
and work 164.118.232.619 42.810.552.390 26,1% 
Rail 23.856.392.361 5.371.579.945 22,5% 
Road 40.647.045.913 13.824.228.166 34,0% 
Other transport 17.218.933.106 4.557.447.931 26,5% 
Energy 10.808.045.616 1.424.323.194 13,2% 
Broadband 2.304.553.527 418.171.980 18,1% 
Environment 46.477.783.269 9.769.612.721 21,0% 
Culture & social 22.805.478.827 7.445.188.453 32,6% 
     
Guideline: Improving knowledge and 
innovation for growth 85.170.297.921 24.928.685.476 29,3% 
Innovation & RTD 49.702.909.371 14.183.316.319 28,5% 
Entrepreneurship 8.474.699.007 2.218.205.794 26,2% 
ICT for citizens & businesss 12.907.084.871 2.855.876.947 22,1% 
Other investments in enterprise 14.085.604.672 5.671.286.416 40,3% 
     
Guideline: More and better jobs 69.860.323.997 18.327.392.084 26,2% 
Human capital 30.870.958.465 8.589.354.948 27,8% 
Labour market 22.834.966.581 5.990.860.613 26,2% 
Social Inclusion 11.308.765.918 2.837.435.950 25,1% 
Capacity Building 4.845.633.033 909.740.573 18,8% 
     
Territorial Dimension 14.563.135.325 4.385.063.576 30,1% 
     
Technical Assistance 10.593.608.565 2.992.781.395 28,3% 
 
EN 18   EN  
ANNEX III  
Project selected: Global Progress in impl ementing Lisbon earmarking within the 
Community Strategic Guidelines – by Objective  
Lisbon Earmarking Non earmarked
ConvergencePlanned EU 
investment Allocated to 
projects selected %Planned EU 
investment Allocated to pro jects 
selected %
Attractive places to invest and work 65.883.387.327 16.235.104.167 24,6% 76.579.187.061 20.340.205.383 26,6%
Improvin g knowled ge and innovation for 
growth64.598.696.095 19.726.907.771 30,5%
More and better jobs 42.860.389.771 11.020.391.689 25,7% 3.877.764.747 696.961.662 18,0%
National earmarking priorities 7.972.291.685 3.261.610.200 40,9%
Technical Assistance 8.450.148.645 2.486.207.783 29,4%
Territorial Dimension 11.094.732.191 3.036.456.499 27,4%
181.314.764.877 50.244.013.827 27,7% 100.001.832.644 26.559.831.327 26,6%
Regional Competitiveness and Employment
Attractive places to invest and work 2.530.810.511 827.032.273 32,7% 7.031.822.669 1.695.269.787 24,1%
Improving knowledge and innovation for 
growth18.601.025.961 4.740.009.734 25,5%
More and better jobs 21.614.112.726 6.318.453.419 29,2% 462.938.707 75.576.599 16,3%
National earmarking priorities 714.406.620 192.860.169 27,0%
Technical Assistance 1.686.057.166 353.270.622 21,0%
Territorial Dimension 2.532.601.591 555.846.744 21,9%
43.460.355.819 12.078.355.595 27,8% 11.713.420.133 2.679.963.752 22,9%
European Territorial Cooperation
Attractive places to invest and work 947.374.091 168.120.589 17,7% 2.913.152.636 732.159.936 25,1%
Improving knowledge and innovation for 
growth1.970.575.865 461.767.971 23,4%
More and better jobs 540.188.467 78.806.403 14,6% 504.929.579 129.403.688 25,6%
Technical Assistance 457.402.754 153.272.925 33,5%
Territorial Dimension 481.601.562 138.015.582 28,7%
3.458.138.423 708.694.963 20,5% 4.357.086.531 1.173.615.457 26,9%  
EN 19   EN ANNEX IV  
Project selected: Progress in im plementing Lisbon earmarking  
by Member State and by Objective  
A. Convergence Objective:  
 Lisbon Earmarking Non earmarked 
 Planned EU 
investment  Allocated to 
projects 
selected  % Planned EU 
investment  Allocated to 
projects 
selected  % 
PL 42.336.237.226 8.061.288.462 19,0% 22.885.615.766 4.621.660.425 20,2% 
ES 20.757.713.276 7.013.189.691 33,8% 5.418.694.427 2.057.724.312 38,0% 
PT 16.806.269.532 6.876.406.328 40,9% 3.664.656.714 820.903.039 22,4% 
CZ 14.719.590.554 2.558.077.069 17,4% 11.165.091.217 2.939.830.606 26,3% 
IT 14.306.106.346 5.811.324.954 40,6% 7.334.318.950 2.031.915.116 27,7% 
EL 13.325.507.916 1.686.475.006 12,7% 6.246.376.827 559.879.607 9,0% 
HU 12.175.632.967 6.835.959.926 56,1% 10.733.286.440 4.705.400.393 43,8% 
DE 11.732.517.803 2.186.355.032 18,6% 4.346.816.819 1.194.873.496 27,5% 
RO 9.858.248.292 929.857.129 9,4% 9.354.788.420 1.782.090.357 19,1% 
SK 6.412.334.224 1.011.756.622 15,8% 4.493.395.237 1.026.564.199 22,8% 
LT 3.534.347.834 1.407.777.062 39,8% 3.241.144.989 988.538.971 30,5% 
BG 3.385.886.925 612.176.612 18,1% 3.287.741.319 736.736.638 22,4% 
SI 2.694.750.638 1.140.627.731 42,3% 1.406.297.998 590.954.629 42,0% 
LV 2.527.858.320 1.207.410.655 47,8% 2.002.589.314 465.607.067 23,3% 
UK 2.355.639.764 976.827.673 41,5% 556.909.861 224.913.325 40,4% 
FR 1.811.283.210 290.059.620 16,0% 1.379.872.345 203.793.011 14,8% 
EE 1.560.942.443 893.926.371 57,3% 1.842.517.438 885.800.349 48,1% 
BE 491.278.519 365.082.673 74,3% 147.047.635 144.239.146 98,1% 
MT 368.140.800 207.248.227 56,3% 471.982.251 202.203.810 42,8% 
AT 154.478.287 15.205.816 9,8% 22.688.677 5.785.488 25,5% 
20 181.314.764.877 50.087.032.659 27,6% 100.001.832.644 26.189.413.984 26,2%
NB: PL, EL, ES, PT, CZ, IT, HU, DE, RO, SK = 88% of Convergence 
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%
PL ES CZ HU IT PT EL RO DE SK LT BG LV SI EE FR UK MT BE AT EU20
Earmarked Other
 
EN 20   EN B. Regional Competitivene ss and Employment Objective  
 Lisbon Earmarking Non earmarked 
 Planned EU 
investment  Allocated to 
projects 
selected  % Planned EU 
investment  Allocated to 
projects 
selected  % 
FR 8.090.730.610 2.556.077.410 31,6% 2.167.334.886 451.456.346 20,8% 
DE 7.736.411.732 1.230.309.466 15,9% 1.672.869.936 308.219.179 18,4% 
UK 6.193.002.023 2.094.345.486 33,8% 785.385.815 186.784.417 23,8% 
ES 6.098.907.229 889.236.175 14,6% 2.382.419.048 139.661.280 5,9% 
IT 5.065.123.109 1.555.609.541 30,7% 1.259.766.998 476.916.055 37,9% 
SE 1.407.260.632 661.539.686 47,0% 218.831.256 126.450.207 57,8% 
FI 1.375.965.515 408.965.309 29,7% 220.000.529 96.781.543 44,0% 
NL 1.320.593.128 665.452.889 50,4% 339.409.609 157.423.949 46,4% 
BE 1.190.483.947 545.216.965 45,8% 234.690.665 206.359.683 87,9% 
HU 984.291.129    1.027.938.064     
AT 934.061.242 207.941.776 22,3% 93.250.375 18.222.470 19,5% 
PT 663.811.932 390.185.734 58,8% 276.822.334 48.701.868 17,6% 
IE 600.862.370 138.208.122 23,0% 149.862.372 35.111.000 23,4% 
DK 457.388.655 145.505.933 31,8% 52.188.584 7.505.112 14,4% 
SK 343.259.311 60.930.553 17,8% 111.631.178 7.005.239 6,3% 
CZ 329.286.599 94.563.560 28,7% 88.636.114 23.301.284 26,3% 
CY 314.511.444 113.512.630 36,1% 297.923.548 145.174.056 48,7% 
EL 310.481.234 112.596.222 36,3% 327.895.468 41.997.707 12,8% 
LU 43.923.978    6.563.354     
19 43.460.355.819 11.870.197.457 27,3% 11.713.420.133 2.477.071.395 21,1% 
NB: FR, DE, UK, ES, IT = 75% of RCE 
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%
FR DE ES UK IT HU NL SE FI BE AT PT IE EL CY DK SK CZ LU EU19
Ear mar ked Other
 
NB – Six MS (DE, EE, EL, ES, FR, SI) have provided their data on allocation to selected projects at dates other 
than 30/09/09. This should be carefully taken into consideration when making comparative analysis of the 
Annexes. It is recommended to compare MS progress to the EU average rather than making direct comparison 
between MS.  
EN 21   EN ANNEX V  
Project selected: Progress in implementing  Community Strategic Guidelines by 86 
category themes  
Community Strategic 
Guidelines  Priority theme EU Investment  
Guideline CSG 
Themes Code Title Planned EU 
investment  Allocated to 
projects 
selected  % 
      Total 344.305.598.427 93.444.474.921 27,1% 
16 Railways 4.133.171.964 1.063.718.065 25,7% 
17 Railways (TEN-T) 18.428.295.116 4.088.511.122 22,2% 
18 Mobile rail assets 629.393.565 148.728.386 23,6% Rail 
19 Mobile rail assets 
(TEN-T) 665.531.716 70.622.372 10,6% 
20 Motorways 5.158.132.228 1.103.316.829 21,4% 
21 Motorways (TEN-T) 17.353.478.400 5.469.931.372 31,5% 
22 National roads 7.640.020.331 2.934.809.943 38,4% 
23 Regional/local roads 9.891.745.664 4.172.013.889 42,2% Road 
24 Cycle tracks 603.669.290 144.156.133 23,9% 
25 Urban transport 1.660.210.940 229.901.772 13,8% 
26 Multimodal transport 1.628.786.241 570.441.649 35,0% 
27 Multimodal transport 
(TEN-T) 446.841.078 42.030.497 9,4% 
28 Intelligent transport 
systems 1.085.513.854 122.532.143 11,3% 
29 Airports 1.851.641.401 341.462.674 18,4% 
30 Ports 3.547.313.990 1.139.571.617 32,1% 
31 Inland waterways 
(regional and local) 268.088.006 44.733.495 16,7% 
32 Inland waterways 
(TEN-T) 603.973.016 83.906.632 13,9% Other 
Transport 
52 Promotion of clean 
urban transport  6.126.564.580 1.982.867.452 32,4% 
33 Electricity 272.835.662 23.591.842 8,6% 
34 Electricity (TEN-E) 313.180.653 12.000 0,0% 
35 Natural gas 658.586.398 7.446.715 1,1% 
36 Natural gas (TEN-E) 361.948.085 91.637 0,0% 
37 Petroleum products 171.577.472 0 0,0% 
38 Petroleum products 
(TEN-E) 0 0 0,0% 
39 Renewable energy: 
wind 785.490.798 23.068.741 2,9% 
40 Renewable energy: 
solar  1.064.250.008 126.776.413 11,9% Guideline: 
Attractive 
places to 
invest and 
work 
Energy 
41 Renewable energy: 
biomass 1.786.119.368 212.911.887 11,9% 
EN 22   EN 42 Renewable energy: 
hydroelectric, 
geothermal and other 1.123.790.899 136.016.259 12,1% 
43 Energy efficiency, co-
generation, energy 
management 4.270.266.273 894.407.700 20,9% 
Broadband 10 Telephone 
infrastructures 
(including broadband 
networks) 2.304.553.527 418.171.980 18,1% 
44 Management of 
household and 
industrial waste 6.239.490.861 1.017.714.614 16,3% 
45 Management and 
distribution of water 
(drink water) 8.143.908.866 1.677.872.585 20,6% 
46 Water treatment (waste 
water) 13.886.543.167 3.817.546.044 27,5% 
47 Air quality 1.018.376.565 63.647.821 6,2% 
48 Integrated prevention 
and pollution control  738.943.655 67.660.706 9,2% 
49 Mitigation and adaption 
to climate change 304.727.396 224.861.474 73,8% 
50 Rehabilitation of 
industrial sites and 
contaminated land 3.451.309.651 417.323.348 12,1% 
51 Promotion of 
biodiversity and nature 
protection (including 
Natura 2000) 2.675.723.383 483.042.811 18,1% 
53 Risk prevention (...) 5.801.167.699 706.753.238 12,2% 
54 Other measures to 
preserve the 
environment and 
prevent risks 1.675.670.593 799.896.097 47,7% 
55 Promotion of natural 
assets 1.136.699.224 249.861.896 22,0% Environment 
56 Protection and 
development of natural 
heritage 1.405.222.209 243.432.087 17,3% 
58 Protection and 
preservation of the 
cultural heritage 2.933.794.281 703.932.486 24,0% 
59 Development of cultural 
infrastructure 2.233.157.980 750.862.010 33,6% 
60 Other assistance to 
improve cultural 
services 797.433.362 81.253.458 10,2% 
75 Education infrastructure 7.255.324.137 3.136.951.215 43,2% 
76 Health infrastructure 5.185.363.033 1.749.459.149 33,7% 
77 Childcare infrastructure  555.726.179 176.963.608 31,8% 
78 Housing infrastructure 950.014.977 176.225.509 18,5% Cultural and 
Social  
79 Other social 
infrastructure 2.894.664.878 669.541.018 23,1% 
01 R&TD activities in 
research centres  5.806.164.273 1.973.175.795 34,0% 
02 R&TD infrastructure 
and centres of 
competence in a 
specific technology 9.738.640.336 3.157.233.927 32,4% Guideline: 
Improving 
knowledge 
and 
innovation 
for growth RTDI 
03 Technology transfer 
and improvement of 
cooperation networks ... 5.446.089.255 1.011.294.995 18,6% 
EN 23   EN 04 Assistance to R&TD, 
particularly in SMEs 
(including access to 
R&TD services in 
research centres) 5.772.595.500 1.248.492.134 21,6% 
06 Assistance to SMEs for 
the promotion of 
environmentally-friendly 
products and 
production processes 2.475.879.153 484.945.381 19,6% 
07 Investment in firms 
directly linked to 
research and 
innovation (...) 8.670.367.334 2.929.283.498 33,8% 
09 Other measures to 
stimulate research and 
innovation and 
entrepreneurship in 
SMEs 6.861.090.285 2.535.755.318 37,0% 
74 Developing human 
potential in the field of 
research and 
innovation, in particular 
through post-graduate 
studies ... 4.932.083.235 843.135.271 17,1% 
05 Advanced support 
services for firms and 
groups of firms 5.254.107.502 1.727.698.194 32,9% 
Entrepreneu
rship 
68 Support for self-
employment and 
business start-up 3.220.591.505 490.507.600 15,2% 
11 Information and 
communication 
technologies (...) 3.542.430.597 1.151.475.700 32,5% 
12 Information and 
communication 
technologies (TEN-ICT) 523.302.208 178.745.702 34,2% 
13 Services and 
applications for citizens 
(e-health, e-
government, e-learning, 
e-inclusion, etc.) 5.217.998.422 1.007.895.931 19,3% 
14 Services and 
applications for SMEs 
(e-commerce, 
education and training, 
networking, etc.) 2.114.759.867 165.566.454 7,8% ICT 
15 Other measures for 
improving access to 
and efficient use of ICT 
by SMEs  1.508.593.777 352.193.160 23,3% 
Other 
Investment 
in firms 08 Other investment in 
firms  14.085.604.672 5.671.286.416 40,3% 
62 Development of life-
long learning systems 
and strategies in firms; 
training and services for 
employees ... 9.675.045.933 2.254.455.075 23,3% 
72 Design, introduction 
and implementing of 
reforms in education 
and training systems ... 8.693.100.234 2.234.983.589 25,7% Human 
capital 
73 Measures to increase 
participation in 
education and training 
throughut the life-cycle 
... 12.502.812.298 4.099.916.284 32,8% Guideline: 
More and 
better jobs 
Labour 
Market 63 Design and 
dissemination of 
innovative and more 
productive ways of 
organising work 1.897.998.513 158.242.092 8,3% 
EN 24   EN 64 Development of special 
services for 
employment, training 
and support in 
connection with 
restructuring of sectors 
...  2.758.540.858 547.288.723 19,8% 
65 Modernisation and 
strengthening labour 
market institutions 2.345.253.742 605.767.408 25,8% 
66 Implementing active 
and preventive 
measures on the labour 
market 12.152.127.292 3.895.030.482 32,1% 
67 Measures encouraging 
active ageing and 
prolonging working 
lives 1.043.599.104 109.212.232 10,5% 
69 Measures to improve 
access to employment 
and increase 
sustainable 
participation and 
progress of women ... 2.637.447.072 675.319.676 25,6% 
70 Specific action to 
increase migrants' 
participation in 
employment ... 1.244.192.527 253.293.912 20,4% 
Social 
Inclusion 
71 Pathways to integration 
and re-entry into 
employment for 
disadvantaged people 
... 10.064.573.391 2.584.142.038 25,7% 
80 Promoting the 
partnerships, pacts and 
initiatives through the 
networking of relevant 
stakeholders 1.279.205.168 181.907.596 14,2% 
Capacilty 
Building 
81 Mechanisms for 
improving good policy 
and programme design, 
monitoring and 
evaluation ... 3.566.427.865 727.832.977 20,4% 
57 Other assistance to 
improve tourist services 3.779.651.032 1.320.318.586 34,9% 
61 Integrated projects for 
urban and rural 
regeneration 10.136.013.807 2.981.940.305 29,4% 
82 Compensation of any 
additional costs due to 
accessibility deficit and 
territorial fragmentation 474.847.281 76.273.274 16,1% 
83 Specific action 
addressed to 
compensate additional 
costs due to size 
market factors 128.961.873 1.389.700 1,1% Territorial Dimension 
84 Support to compensate 
additional costs due to 
climate conditions and 
relief difficulties 43.661.332 5.141.711 11,8% 
85 Preparation, 
implementation, 
monitoring and 
inspection  7.753.873.689 2.434.848.538 31,4% 
Technical Assistance 
86 Evaluation and studies; 
information and 
communication 2.839.734.876 557.932.857 19,6% 
EN 25   EN  
ANNEX VI  
Core Indicators reported by the National Strategic Reports  
 N. of Core Indicators 
used Targets_ 
Programme Targets_ 
Committed projects Achievements 
reported* 
AT 8 8 8 0 
BE 2 2 2 0 
BG 18 15 0 5 
CY 3 3 0 3 
CZ 13 11 8 7 
DE  8 6 0 8 
DK Info not available       
EE 3 0 0 3 
EL 3 0 3 0 
ES 0 0 0 0 
FI 4 4 0 4 
FR 0 0 0 0 
HU 17 0 17 0 
IE 8 6  0 7 
IT 0 0 0 0 
LT 6 6 0 5 
LU  13  13 0 10 
LV 0 0 0 0 
MT 0 0 0 0 
NL 4 4 4 0 
PL 24 1 24 4 
PT 13 0 13 0 
RO Info not available      
SE 4 4 0 4 
SK 1 1 0 0 
SL 5 5 0 3 
UK 0 0 0 0 
* Achievement values different from 0  
.