WRITTEN QUESTION No. 499/97 by Ludivina GARCÍA ARIAS to the Commission. Definition, adoption and monitoring of Community RESIDER initiative
Date: 1997-02-19
Institutions: European Parliament, GARCIA ARIAS
Subjects: EU initiative, European Commission, Structural Funds, industrial conversion, industrial region, iron and steel industry, local government, operational programme, regional policy, social partners













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 499/97 by Ludivina GARCÍA ARIAS to the Commission. Definition, adoption and monitoring of Community RESIDER initiative  


Official Journal C 319 , 18/10/1997 P. 0092 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-0499/97 by Ludivina García Arias (PSE) to the Commission (19 February 1997)Subject: Definition, adoption and monitoring of Community RESIDER initiativeCan the Commission provide information on the level of participation of local authorities and the two sides of industry in the definition, adoption and monitoring of the RESIDER initiative in the various Member States?Joint answer to Written Questions E-0497/97, E-0498/97, E-0499/97 and E-0500/97 given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission (7 April 1997)Participation of the various local authorities and other partners in the definition and monitoring of assistance under the Community Initiatives is governed, like any other operational programme, by Article 4 of the basic Regulation on the Structural Funds ((OJ L 193, 31.7.1993. )). Each Member State designates the authorities and other partners which are to participate in the partnership involved in structural assistance in accordance with current practice in each Member State.In the interests of efficiency, consistency and optimization of the technical means available, the Community Initiatives are generally monitored by the same Monitoring Committees responsible for monitoringthe various operational programmes and single programming documents.The wide range of situations and practices and the very complexity of the assistance procedures make it difficult to carry out a detailed quantitative analysis for each Member State of actual participation by local authorities and social partners in the definition and approval of each operational programme or Community Initiative or of their participation in the Monitoring Committees. The information on this subject available to the Commission is presented in the 6th and 7th annual reports, which Parliament has received.The Commission believes that there has been real progress in the application of the principle of partnership for these Community Initiatives, as for all other structural assistance. It recognizes, however, that the quality of implementation varies from one Member State to another.The report on economic and social cohesion recently adopted by the Commission stresses that partnership will have to be strengthened in the future, but it also proposes that the current assistance procedures be simplified so as to ensure that partnership is really made possible and effective.The Commission is currently promoting territorial employment pacts as a means of trying out new forms of partnership, particularly at local level, involving the economic and social partners.