Commission staff working document - Accompanying document to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Cohesion policy: Strategic report 2010 on the implementation of the programmes 2007-2013 {COM(2010) 110}
Date: 2010-03-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU regional policy, competitiveness, economic and social cohesion, economic development, innovation, investment policy, reflation, report

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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 COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL 
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE 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  companion  document  to  the  Communication  COM(2010) 
110.  

This  document  presents  in  Section  2  a  short  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 indicative 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:  Global  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: Progress in implementing the Lisbon 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 

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SUMMARY  OF  REPORTED  PROGRESS  IN  IMPLEMENTATION  AND  EARLY  OUTPUTS 
AND RESULTS 

The Community Strategic Guideline (CSG) was structured in three Guidelines with a section 
dealing  with  the  territorial  dimension  of  cohesion  policy.  Each  Guideline  is  composed  of 
several 'CSG themes' and each of these themes generally 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 overview of how the 86 Priority themes have been regrouped 
around the CSG themes of the three Guidelines and the territorial dimension. 

2.1. 

Guideline: Attractive places 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. For 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 selected 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 motorways 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 exception of Estonia (81.2% of selected 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 project selection rate is very low (5%) for both rail 
and road sectors. In many other new Member States, 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 post evaluation of the 2000-2006 period; this is 
clearly an area which needs to be addressed 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  situation  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 energy 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% allocated) or TEN-E (no allocation yet) also 

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need to be much more looked at. Overall the energy priorities are doing better in the Regional 
Competitiveness and Employment (RCE) regions 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  filled  though  only  18.1%  of  total 
funds  are  so  for  allocated  to  projects.  Marked  differences  exist  between  convergence  and 
competitiveness  regions,  with  10.2%  and  59.1%  of  the  funds  allocated  to  projects 
respectively. Progress shows strong 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% allocated) is apparently hampered by rapidly 
changing  market  conditions.  On  the  other  hand,  delivery  seems  to  accelerate  in  some 
countries (UK, SE, SI). Ireland reports some 34764additional users provided with broadband 
coverage by the end of 2009, some 31% of the overall 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  theme  reaches  21%  of  the  decided  amounts  in  the 
Programmes. This overall average hides nevertheless 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 other 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  investments  in  waste  water  treatment  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  land"  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 disasters (flooding, forest fires, storms…) 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  (31.3%)  underlining  the  added-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 generally 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 rates of progress is reported within the specific priorities.  

2.2. 

Guideline: Improving knowledge and innovation for growth 

Cohesion  policy  programmes  play  a  crucial  role  in  strengthening  Europe's  innovation  and 
research and potential with an overall allocation of 49.7 billion EUR to core innovation and 
research priorities in the EU-271. The major share of research and innovation investment, 37 

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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  

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billion EUR, is concentrated in convergence regions, while a considerable 11.4 billion EUR is 
allocated in RCE objective regions.  

Concerning programme implementation, encouraging progress can be seen since on average 
28.5% of the total innovation and research funding in EU-27 have been allocated to selected 
projects.  Furthermore,  convergence  regions  appear  to  perform  slightly  better  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  observed  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 support 9,764 RTD projects, 
while  10  of  these  Member  States  plus  one  other  have  targets  to  support  4,587  co-operation 
projects between enterprises and research institutions. 

In the Entrepreneurship CSG theme (covering two specific types 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  regions  (28.8%  of  total 
programme budget allocated), whereas it is slower in RCE programmes (only 21.2% of total 
funds  have  been  allocated  to  projects).  Again  variations  can  be  detected  across  Member 
States.  Many  countries  (BE,  BG,  FI,  EL,  LV,  PL,  SE,  SI,  UK)  have  demonstrated  good 
progress  in  delivery  with  project  pipeline  filling-up  well  above  the  average,  whereas, 
implementation still needs to gain momentum especially in AT, ES, HU, IT, NL, PT and RO. 

Little  information  on  outputs  or  results  is  reported  by  Member  States  in  the  field  of 
entrepreneurship. However, Germany reports 1,126 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  period  2007-2013  in  the 
information and communications (ICT) applications is 12.9 billion EUR, which represents 
3.7% of the total cohesion policy spending in the EU-27. On average, only 22.1% of the ICT 
funds  have  been  allocated  to  projects  with  marked  differences  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 example, 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  have  reported  on  core  indicators  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  terms  of  implementation  with  40.3%  of  the  budget 
already  allocated  to  selected  projects.  Implementation  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  loans,  risk  capital,  grants  and  bank  guarantees,  which  have  been 

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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 national reports, only with regard 
to few Member States this role is illustrated partially (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  allocation  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  training  and  from  training  to  employment  (DE)  and 
increasing  students'  competences,  reducing  drop-outs  and  broadening  population’s  learning 
opportunities (CY, IT). 27.8% of the funding available has been already allocated. As regards 
education  and  training,  the  ESF  funds  were  used  for  co-financing  interventions  supporting 
modernisation  and  equal  opportunities  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 vocational 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  employment  for  disadvantaged  persons  or  those 
excluded  from  the  labour  market,  the  employment  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),  linking  university  education  to  the  needs  of  the  labour  market 
(CY, IE, UK) and by supporting persons with 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  has  been  allocated.  Member  States  have  used  the  financial 
resources  from  the  ESF  for  supporting  interventions  improving  the  access  of  vulnerable 
groups to the labour market and to education, helping for re-entry into the labour market (FR, 
IT, NL), promoting special measures for integration 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  also  to  reduce  the  risk  of  poverty  and  social 
exclusion (CY), to support enterprises' efforts to develop an active policy on human resources 
(DK) and to provide good quality and long working life (EE, PL). ESF also helped facing the 
challenges related to poverty and exclusion associated with being out of work and for people 
living  in  rural  and  deprived  areas  (PL,  PT).  ESF  co-financed  actions  aimed  at  increasing 

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participation of migrants in employment and strengthened 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).  Activities  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 Member States there are delays. This is partly 
due to social inclusion being tackled not evenly across the funds and programmes.  

In the capacity building and partnership CSG theme the spending level is lagging behind 
and the average performance stands at 18.8%. It has reached only one-digit figure in ES, IT, 
LT,  PT  and  UK.  The  scope  of  actions  includes  enhancing  mechanisms  for  improving  good 
policy  and  programme  design,  monitoring  and  evaluation  and  promoting  the  partnerships, 
pacts and initiatives through the networking of relevant stakeholders. The observed delay in 
implementation  of  measures  co-financed  by  the  ESF  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  territorial  dimension  described  in  the  Guidelines  is  found  in 
different ways. 

Firstly, many programmes take explicit account of the territorial dimension when addressing 
their  thematic  priorities  under  the  Convergence  and  RCE  objectives.  This  is  reflected  most 
visibly in various good practices examples presented.  

Another  example  comes  from  the  different  ways  the  Member  States  chose  to  implement 
transnational cooperation in their ESF programmes: 47 programmes in 7 Member States have 
a  priority  axis  on  trans-nationality,  while  6  Member  States  included  dedicated  measures  in 
one  of  their  programmes.  Managing  Authorities  for  more  than  half  of  the  programmes 
adopted  a  horizontal  approach  with  the  possibility  to  fund  transnational  activities  in  one  or 
several  priority  axis.  This  shows  the  level  of  diversity  in  programming  and  suggests  that 
coordination among Member States is a crucial but challenging task. 

Secondly,  some  priority  themes  of  support  directly  address  territorial  opportunities  or 
disadvantages.  An  analysis  of  the  data  on  implementation  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  services  above  this  average.  For  example,  1696 
urban development projects have been committed 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 already implemented 92 projects 
in this field. 

The  special  financial  allocations  for  the  outermost  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 

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defined in the Treaty2. The implementation of that new allocation obliged the national and/or 
regional authorities to put in place new procedures and to notify specific state aid schemes. 

Thirdly, The European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) objective (2.5% of total EU budget) is 
dedicated to promoting cooperation across territories – both transnational and cross border. In 
relation to ETC programmes, more than two thirds of Member States3 address the value added 
of  ETC  to  their  regional  development  policies.  Some  of  these  Member  States  are 
characterised  by  a  high  proportion  of  border  regions  and  a  diversified  spatial  structure  and 
their  mainstream 
they  consider 
programmes. The new generation of ETC programmes supports the regional integration of the 
outermost regions with their neighbours including a reinforcement of the cooperation with the 
actions  supported  under  the  European  Development  Fund.  Within  the  ETC  programmes 
projects  selection  is  running  at  24,1%  with  progress  on  Lisbon  priorities  running  at  around 
20%. 

the  cooperation  programmes  as  complementary 

to 

Finally,  the European Union  Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is  discussed in six reports4. 
They  emphasise  their  interest  in  this  strategy  in  terms  of  improved  multilevel  governance, 
involvement  of  stakeholders  and  new  strategic  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 strategy, SE has examined how co-funded programmes can support 
the objectives of the strategy, while EE and LT are examining the possibilities to align with 
the strategy. 

3. 

INDICATIVE SELECTION OF GOOD PRACTICES EXAMPLES 

An indicative selection of 40 of the 220 projects identified by the Member States is presented 
below. These projects or schemes are presented under the three guidelines of the Community 
Strategic  Guideline  and  the  territorial  dimension.  The  full  texts  of  these  examples  are 
available in the national reports which contain around 220 examples of projects, schemes or 
programming techniques that they have selected from the ongoing programmes 2007-2013 (or 
sometimes from the programmes 2000-2006). At least one example of good practice for each 
Guideline is provided by nineteen Member States. Around 15% of all examples fall under the 
Guideline "Attractive places to invest and work". The Guideline "Improving knowledge and 
innovation  for  growth"  is  illustrated  by  approximately  30%  examples,  while  the  Guideline 
"More and Better Jobs" is represented 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 methods (selection procedures, etc.). 

To access the national reports and their good practice examples, the Commission has gathered 
links to the national reports in the national languages (sometimes with translations provided 
by the national authorities): http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/policy/reporting/index_en.htm  

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Articles 349 and 355.1 of the TFEU. 
All except PL, ES, BE, HU, LU, RO, SI, based on the reports themselves. 
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1. GUIDELINE: ATTRACTIVE PLACES TO INVEST AND WORK 

BG  OP: Transport 
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 December 2008 and is planned to end in 2012. It is the 
first approved major project 2007-2013 in Bulgaria 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 157,4 m €

CY  OP: Sustainable development Competitiveness 
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  Limassol  in  the  context  of  the  Mediterranean  sea 
shipping sector. 

Fund:ERDF/CF 

EU: 38.16 m €

ES  OP: Castilla-La Mancha 
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  with  the  aim  of  commercial  exploitation  based  on 
reliability, performance and ease of maintenance. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 5.6 m €

FI  OP: Northern Finland 
Title: Retail unit accessibility and CO2 emissions in Oulu 
Project description: Evaluate the optimal location of large commercial retail units in the Oulu region 
based on residential and workplace locations and shopping patterns by computing the CO2 emissions 
using  GIS-applications  and  data  sources.  The  aim  is  to  create  a  method  for  estimating  the  optimal 
location for new shopping centres based on minimisation of CO2 emissions. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 0.055 m €

FR  OP: Martinique 
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 Lamentin and Fort-de-France is foreseen. The transport 
capacity will rise to 2,700 passengers per hour. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 89 m €

IE  OP: Border, Midland and Western RCE 
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. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 36 m €

MT  OP 1 - Competitiveness  
Title: TEN-T infrastructure reconstruction and upgrade 
Project description: The Malta Transport Authority aims to reconstruct and upgrade five sections of 
the  Trans-European  Network  –  Transport  road  network.  20km  of  upgraded  road  will  improve  road 
security and business access both within and to and from Malta 

Fund: CF 

EU: 49 m €

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PL  OP: Infrastructure and Environment 
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  the  capacity  of  a  17.8km  long  section,  and  includes  6  flyovers,  9  road 
bridges and 6 pedestrian overpasses.  

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 139 m €

RO  OP Environment 
Title: Reform of the water system  
Project's description: creation of the regional operators to support large investment projects and to 
ensure  a  proper  water  management;  all  the  water  projects  have  been  prepared  based  on  this  reform 
policy  (about  40  projects  of  which  11  already  approved  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.  

EU: 3.2 bn €  

Fund: CF 

UK  OP: Northern Ireland Employment and Competitiveness  Fund: ERDF 
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 systems. The NGBP aims to deliver access for 85% 
of businesses to next generation broadband networks by 2011. 

EU: 10.3 m €

2. GUIDELINE: IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION FOR GROWTH 

AT  OP: Regional competitiveness - Lower Austria 
Title: Integrated location development – "Technopoles" 
Project description: The initiative aims to integrate the three pillars science/research, education with 
economy and develop modern innovation 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  technology  and  location  development  and  national  and 
international research and technology policies. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 5.2 m €

BE  OP: Knowledge economy and innovation 
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 triggers 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. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 0.24 m €

DE  OP: Sachsen-Anhalt 
Title: Solar Valley 
Project  description:  “Solar  Valley”  focuses  on  the  solar  industry  and  sub  suppliers  and  is  a  fast 
growing industrial area in Central Europe. Today, more than 90 percent of all silicon solar cells made 
in Germany are produced in the “Solar Valley” region, anchored in Sachsen-Anhalt. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 45 m €

EE  OP: Development of Economic Environment 
Title: Additional loan resources for enterprises 
Project description: The measure has been developed in response 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. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 77 m € 

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ETC  OP: INTERREG IVC 
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 interregional exchange of good practices on innovation and design policy and 
other related areas (e.g. sustainability, R&D). 

Fund: ERDF 

EU:1.5 m €

IT  OP: Emilia-Romagna  
Title: Regional network of "technopoles" 
Project  description:  The  project  strengthens  integration  between  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  laboratories  and  incubators  will  organise  their  activities 
and resources and reach the critical mass to compete at international level. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 34.5 m € 

LV  OP: Enterpreneurship and innovations 
Title: Support to micro and small enterprises in specially assisted areas 
Project description: Project is aimed at increasing activity and number of entrepreneurs operating in 
specially assisted areas (97 contracts are being implemented). 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 36,5 m €

LT  OP: Economic Growth 
Title: Hydro-Energy Technology Centre 
Project  description:  Project  aims  to  create  modern  infrastructure  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. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 1.8 m € 

MT  OP: I Competitiveness  
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 research, development and innovation to take place. 
The main target: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), existing Small and Medium Enterprises 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 11,3 m €

NL  OP: Kansen voor West 
Title: "Geo Valley" Marknesse 
Project description: The Geomatics Business Park is a business 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-information  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 innovative and knowledge-intensive companies. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 1.9 m €

PT  OP: Competitiveness 
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. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 1,7 m € 

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AT  OP: Employment Austria 
Title: Territorial Employment Pacts (TEPs) 
Project's description: Partnerships to link labour market and employment policies with other policy 
areas are considered as instruments to implement cooperative labour market 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. 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 6.3 m €

DK  OP: More and Better Jobs 
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. 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 3.2 m €

EE  OP: Development of Human resources 
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  suitable.  The  impact  of  the  project  is  expected  to 
reach at least 10% of the targeted working-age population.  

EU: 0.32 m € 

Fund: ESF 

EL  OP: Human Resources development 
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 professionals or as entrepreneurs. 63% of the grantees 
report rising or stable turnover. In addition, it has been calculated that an average of 0,5 working place 
is created in average in each of these enterprises. 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 27.2m€

OP: Human Capital investment 
IE 
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 created by gender inequality and wider inequalities. 
Financial  support  is  provided  to  institutions  to  support  the  retention  of  students  from  lower  socio-
economic backgrounds, students with disabilities and those from Traveller and other ethnic minorities. 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 9.5 m €

LT  OP: Human resources development 
Title: Balancing work and private life via flexible childcare 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 0.5 m €

Project description: Project aims to assist people with difficulties 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 
Title: Improving employability 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 2 m €

Project  description:  Project  in  the  carpentry  sector  hit  hard  by  the  crisis:  it  includes  procedures 
recognizing the earlier acquired competences of the low-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. 

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PL  OP: Human Capital 
Title: Entrepreneurship promotion and self-employment 
Project's  description:  to  provide  a  comprehensive  package  of  support  to  individuals  who 
want to start up a company through: training, advisory services and start-up grants. 

EU: 340.7 m €

Fund: ESF 

PT  OP: Human Potential 
Title: Initiative New Opportunities 
Project  description:  Making  vocational  education  a  real  option,  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. 

EU: 2.5 bn €  

Fund: ESF 

SE  OP: Regional competitiveness and employment  
Title: Företagsakademin (Enterprise Academy 2.0) 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 0.7 m €

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 restructuring among the companies involved. 

SK  OP: Human resources 
Title:  Developing  new  education  programmes  in  vocational  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. 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 1 m €

OP: Human Resources development 

SI 
Title: E-VEM for the companies 
Project  description:  The  project  provides  a  suitable  electronic  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 administrative procedures, to increase transparency and response 
of  the  public  administration,  to  increase  the  accessibility  of  the  services,  decrease  the  costs  for  the 
future entrepreneurs. 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 3.7 m €

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  into  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 
Title: Integrated Urban Development Plan  
Project's  description:  Integrated  projects  are  implemented  in  selected  urban  zones.  Support  is 
concentrated on comprehensive revitalisation or regeneration 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 attractive areas and secure spaces for the population. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 193 m €

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DE  OP: Federal ESF (Bundesprogramm) 
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). 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 5.6 m €

ES  OP Technical Assistance and Transnational Cooperation 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 3.13 m €

2007-13 
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 
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  staff  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  system)  and  4)  development  of  the  local  culture  in 
both municipalities. 

Fund: ERDF 

EU: 0.4 m €

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 administrations, their associations, NGOs, enterprises 

IT 

OP: ROP Liguria 2000-6 extended for the period 2007-
13 via an inter-regional project  

Title: Supporting and revitalizing old-time professions 

Fund: ESF 

EU: 0.9 m €

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  people,  employed  and  unemployed  adults,  over-50, 
immigrants, Roma and Sinti minorities. 

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4. 

BACKGROUND TO THE DATA ANALYSED AND INTRODUCTION TO ANNEXES 

4.1. 

Projects Selected 

Under  the  provisions  governing  structural  and  cohesion  funds  programming  the  Member 
States  provide  the  Commission  with  information  on  “allocations  to  operations  selected” 
(referred  to  in  COM(2010)xxx  as  selected  projects).  The  information  exchange  system  is 
known as the "categorisation system" and allows exchange of information on five dimensions 
of  the  selected  projects  –  priority  theme,  form  of  finance,  territorial  dimension,  the  precise 
NUTS location and the economic dimension. It is this 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  selected  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  reports  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 under the 86 priority themes in the programmes 
with the actual rate of selection of projects.  

More detailed categorisation information on selected projects will be included in the Annual 
Implementation  Reports  for  each  individual  programmes  for  2009  due  by  30  June  2010. 
Managing  Authorities  will  report  electronically,  on  a  cumulative  basis,  on  the  volumes 
allocated to selected projects under all 5 dimensions of the categorisation system and transfer 
this data via the common electronic interface (SFC2007). 

The  objective  in  providing  information  on  selected  projects  is  to  give  an  insight  into  the 
“project pipeline” of the OPs. Typically projects go through the following phases – 1) project 
preparation  2)  selection,  3)  contracting  (i.e.  procurement  where  relevant)  4)  implementation 
and  declaration  of  expenditure  and  5)  completion.  Selected  projects  should  not  be  confused 
with those projects where expenditure has been declared or the projects are completed. 

The  common  understanding  promoted  by  the  Commission  of  "selected  project"  is  that  they 
have  been  selected  by  the  Managing  authority  (or  other  delegated  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 earlier date. This fact should be carefully taken 
into consideration when making comparative analysis.  

In the data presented by the Member States, the following qualifications should be made:  

DE: 

The  detailed  data  provided  by  DE  on  allocations  to  selected  projects  by  priority 
theme dates only from 31/12/2008. The national authorities were not in a position 

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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  volume  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  included  in  the  subsequent  tables  in  the 
absence of a breakdown. Those tables therefore underestimate the DE allocations 
to selected projects by around 1% overall. 

EE 

EL 

ES 

The data provided by EE was extracted on 28/10/2009 

The data provided by EL was extracted on 05/11/2009 

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 Lisbon Growth and Jobs Agenda. The definition of 
earmarking  was  provided  in  Article  9  and  Annex  IV  of  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1083/20065. 

For  the  Convergence  objective  regions  47  of  the  86  priority  themes  were  identified  as 
earmarked  priorities,  while  in  Regional  Competitiveness  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. including certain priority 
theme codes as national Lisbon earmarked priorities6. 

Investment  shares  of  60%  in  Convergence  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  Cohesion  Fund  operational  programmes,  the 
Commission strongly recommended the use of common minimum core indicators7 concerning 
business support,  education,  environment, health, job creation, information society, research 
development and innovation, tourism, transport and urban development.  

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OJ L 201, 31.7.2006, p. 25. 
Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 Chapter IV, Article 9.3, OJ 3 201, 31.7.2006. 
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  

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Eighteen Member States submitted data on core indicators in their national strategic reports. 
35  out  of  41  core  indicators  were  used.  Jobs  created,  Number  of  RTD  projects,  Number  of 
cooperation  project  enterprises-research  institutions,  Number  of  start-ups  supported  are  the 
indicators  Member  States  more  frequently  reported  on.  A  summary  of  the  number  of  core 
indicators  use  by  the  Member  States  in  their  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  individual  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. 

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ANNEX I 

Global progress by Member State in selecting projects 

Programme volumes 
- EU contribution (€)

EU amount allocated to 
selected projects (€) 

% 

1.204.478.581
2.063.500.766
6.673.628.244
7.815.224.954
612.434.992
26.302.604.484
25.488.616.290
509.577.239
3.403.459.881
34.657.733.981
1.595.966.044
13.449.221.051
20.210.261.445
24.921.148.600
750.724.742
27.965.315.403
6.775.492.823
50.487.332
4.530.447.634
840.123.051
1.660.002.737
65.221.852.992
21.411.560.512
19.213.036.712
1.626.091.888
4.101.048.636
11.360.619.950
9.890.937.463
344.305.598.427

2009 allocations

247.155.550
1.260.898.467
1.348.913.250
1.882.310.420
258.686.686
5.615.772.516
4.919.757.173
153.011.045
1.779.726.718
10.099.811.458
505.746.852
3.501.386.380
2.400.948.542
11.541.360.316
388.568.643
10.633.897.198
2.396.316.031
14.460.188 
1.673.017.721
409.452.037
926.353.744
12.682.948.883
8.136.196.969
2.711.947.484
787.989.893
1.731.582.355
2.106.256.613
3.482.870.901
93.444.474.921

3.636.194.313
97.080.669.234

20,5 % 
61,1 % 
20,2 % 
24,1 % 
42,3 % 
21,6 % 
19,3 % 
30,0 % 
52,3 % 
29,1 % 
31,7 % 
26,0 % 
11,9 % 
46,3 % 
51,8 % 
38,0 % 
35,4 % 
28,6% 
36,9 % 
48,7 % 
55,8 % 
19,5 % 
38,0 % 
14,1 % 
48,5 % 
42,2 % 
18,6 % 
35,2 % 
27,1 % 

28,2 % 

MS 

AT 
BE 
BG 
CB8 
CY 
CZ 
DE9 
DK 
EE 
ES 
FI 
FR 
EL 
HU 
IE 
IT 
LT 
LU 
LV 
MT 
NL 
PL 
PT 
RO 
SE 
SI 
SK 
UK 
Total 

DE 
Total 

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 comparative analysis of the 
Annexes. It is recommended to compare MS progress to the EU average rather than making direct comparison 
between MS. 

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CB = Cross Border or European Territorial Cooperation programme allocations. 
DE has reported 3.6bn € allocated to selected opera tions in 2009. It was not in a position to provide a 
thematic breakdown.  

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ANNEX II 

Projects selected: Global Progress in implementing 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
Road
Other transport
Energy
Broadband
Environment
Culture & social

23.856.392.361
40.647.045.913
17.218.933.106
10.808.045.616
2.304.553.527
46.477.783.269
22.805.478.827

5.371.579.945  22,5% 
13.824.228.166  34,0% 
4.557.447.931  26,5% 
1.424.323.194  13,2% 
418.171.980  18,1% 
9.769.612.721  21,0% 
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
Entrepreneurship
ICT for citizens & businesss
Other investments in enterprise

49.702.909.371
8.474.699.007
12.907.084.871
14.085.604.672

14.183.316.319  28,5% 
2.218.205.794  26,2% 
2.855.876.947  22,1% 
5.671.286.416  40,3% 

Guideline: More and better jobs 

Human capital
Labour market 
Social Inclusion
Capacity Building

69.860.323.997
30.870.958.465
22.834.966.581
11.308.765.918
4.845.633.033

18.327.392.084  26,2% 
8.589.354.948  27,8% 
5.990.860.613  26,2% 
2.837.435.950  25,1% 
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% 

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ANNEX III 

Project selected: Global Progress in implementing Lisbon earmarking within the 
Community Strategic Guidelines – by Objective 

Convergence

Attractive places to invest and work
Improving knowledge and innovation for 
growth
More and better jobs

Lisbon Earmarking

Non earmarked

Planned EU 
investment

 Allocated to 
projects selected 

%

Planned EU 
investment

 Allocated to projects 
selected 

%

65.883.387.327

16.235.104.167 24,6%

76.579.187.061

20.340.205.383 26,6%

64.598.696.095

19.726.907.771 30,5%

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

Territorial Dimension

Regional Competitiveness and Employment

Attractive places to invest and work
Improving knowledge and innovation for 
growth
More and better jobs

National earmarking priorities
Technical Assistance
Territorial Dimension

European Territorial Cooperation

181.314.764.877

50.244.013.827 27,7%

100.001.832.644

26.559.831.327 26,6%

8.450.148.645

2.486.207.783 29,4%

11.094.732.191

3.036.456.499 27,4%

2.530.810.511

827.032.273 32,7%

7.031.822.669

1.695.269.787 24,1%

18.601.025.961

4.740.009.734 25,5%

21.614.112.726

6.318.453.419 29,2%

462.938.707

75.576.599 16,3%

714.406.620

192.860.169 27,0%

1.686.057.166
2.532.601.591

353.270.622 21,0%
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%

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 
growth
More and better jobs
Technical Assistance
Territorial Dimension

1.970.575.865

461.767.971 23,4%

540.188.467

78.806.403 14,6%

3.458.138.423

708.694.963 20,5%

504.929.579
457.402.754
481.601.562
4.357.086.531

129.403.688 25,6%
153.272.925 33,5%
138.015.582 28,7%
1.173.615.457 26,9%  

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Project selected: Progress in implementing Lisbon earmarking  
by Member State and by Objective 

A. Convergence Objective:  

Lisbon Earmarking 
 Allocated to 
projects 
selected  
8.061.288.462
7.013.189.691
6.876.406.328

Planned EU 
investment 

42.336.237.226
20.757.713.276
16.806.269.532

14.719.590.554
14.306.106.346
13.325.507.916
12.175.632.967
11.732.517.803
9.858.248.292

6.412.334.224
3.534.347.834
3.385.886.925
2.694.750.638
2.527.858.320
2.355.639.764

2.558.077.069
5.811.324.954
1.686.475.006
6.835.959.926
2.186.355.032
929.857.129

1.011.756.622
1.407.777.062
612.176.612
1.140.627.731
1.207.410.655
976.827.673

Non earmarked 

% 

19,0% 
33,8% 
40,9% 

17,4% 
40,6% 
12,7% 
56,1% 
18,6% 
9,4% 

15,8% 
39,8% 
18,1% 
42,3% 
47,8% 
41,5% 

Planned EU 
investment 

22.885.615.766
5.418.694.427
3.664.656.714

11.165.091.217
7.334.318.950
6.246.376.827
10.733.286.440
4.346.816.819
9.354.788.420

4.493.395.237
3.241.144.989
3.287.741.319
1.406.297.998
2.002.589.314
556.909.861

 Allocated to 
projects 
selected  

% 

4.621.660.425  20,2% 
2.057.724.312  38,0% 
820.903.039  22,4% 

559.879.607 

2.939.830.606  26,3% 
2.031.915.116  27,7% 
9,0% 
4.705.400.393  43,8% 
1.194.873.496  27,5% 
1.782.090.357  19,1% 

1.026.564.199  22,8% 
988.538.971  30,5% 
736.736.638  22,4% 
590.954.629  42,0% 
465.607.067  23,3% 
224.913.325  40,4% 

1.811.283.210
1.560.942.443
491.278.519
368.140.800
154.478.287
181.314.764.877

290.059.620
893.926.371
365.082.673
207.248.227
15.205.816

1.379.872.345
16,0% 
1.842.517.438
57,3% 
147.047.635
74,3% 
471.982.251
56,3% 
22.688.677
9,8% 
50.087.032.659 27,6% 100.001.832.644

203.793.011  14,8% 
885.800.349  48,1% 
144.239.146  98,1% 
202.203.810  42,8% 
5.785.488  25,5% 
26.189.413.984  26,2%

PL 
ES 
PT 

CZ 
IT 
EL 
HU 
DE 
RO 

SK 
LT 
BG 
SI 
LV 
UK 

FR 
EE 
BE 
MT 
AT 
20 

NB: PL, EL, ES, PT, CZ, IT, HU, DE, RO, SK = 88% of Convergence 

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

P L ES CZ HU IT P T EL RO DE SK LT BG LV SI EE FR UK MT BE AT EU20

Earmarked Ot her

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B. Regional Competitiveness and Employment Objective 

Non earmarked 

Lisbon Earmarking 
 Allocated to 
projects 
selected  
2.556.077.410
1.230.309.466
2.094.345.486

889.236.175
1.555.609.541
661.539.686
408.965.309
665.452.889
545.216.965

207.941.776
390.185.734
138.208.122
145.505.933
60.930.553

Planned EU 
investment 

8.090.730.610
7.736.411.732
6.193.002.023

6.098.907.229
5.065.123.109
1.407.260.632
1.375.965.515
1.320.593.128
1.190.483.947

984.291.129
934.061.242
663.811.932
600.862.370
457.388.655
343.259.311

329.286.599
314.511.444
310.481.234
43.923.978
43.460.355.819

FR 
DE 
UK 

ES 
IT 
SE 
FI 
NL 
BE 

HU 
AT 
PT 
IE 
DK 
SK 

CZ 
CY 
EL 
LU 
19 

% 

31,6% 
15,9% 
33,8% 

14,6% 
30,7% 
47,0% 
29,7% 
50,4% 
45,8% 

22,3% 
58,8% 
23,0% 
31,8% 
17,8% 

Planned EU 
investment 

2.167.334.886
1.672.869.936
785.385.815

2.382.419.048
1.259.766.998
218.831.256
220.000.529
339.409.609
234.690.665

1.027.938.064
93.250.375
276.822.334
149.862.372
52.188.584
111.631.178

28,7% 
36,1% 
36,3% 

94.563.560
113.512.630
112.596.222

88.636.114
297.923.548
327.895.468
6.563.354
11.870.197.457 27,3% 11.713.420.133

% 

 Allocated to 
projects 
selected  
451.456.346  20,8% 
308.219.179  18,4% 
186.784.417  23,8% 

139.661.280 
5,9% 
476.916.055  37,9% 
126.450.207  57,8% 
96.781.543  44,0% 
157.423.949  46,4% 
206.359.683  87,9% 

18.222.470  19,5% 
48.701.868  17,6% 
35.111.000  23,4% 
7.505.112  14,4% 
6,3% 
7.005.239 

23.301.284  26,3% 
145.174.056  48,7% 
41.997.707  12,8% 

2.477.071.395  21,1% 

NB: FR, DE, UK, ES, IT = 75% of RCE 

100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%

FR DE ES UK IT HU NL SE FI BE AT PT IE EL CY DK SK CZ LU EU19

Earmarked 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. 

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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  

% 

Guideline: 
Attractive 
places to 
invest and 
work 

Rail 

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% 

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% 

Road 

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% 

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 

28 

Multimodal transport 
(TEN-T) 
Intelligent transport 
systems 

446.841.078 

42.030.497 

9,4% 

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 

32 

52 

Inland waterways 
(regional and local) 

Inland waterways 
(TEN-T) 
Promotion of clean 
urban transport  

268.088.006 

44.733.495 

16,7% 

603.973.016 

83.906.632 

13,9% 

6.126.564.580 

1.982.867.452 

32,4% 

Other 
Transport 

Energy 

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 

38 

39 

40 

41 

Petroleum products 
(TEN-E) 
Renewable energy: 
wind 
Renewable energy: 
solar  
Renewable energy: 
biomass 

0 

0 

0 

0,0% 

0,0% 

785.490.798 

23.068.741 

2,9% 

1.064.250.008 

126.776.413 

11,9% 

1.786.119.368 

212.911.887 

11,9% 

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43 

Broadband 

10 

44 

45 

46 

Renewable energy: 
hydroelectric, 
geothermal and other 
Energy efficiency, co-
generation, energy 
management 
Telephone 
infrastructures 
(including broadband 
networks) 
Management of 
household and 
industrial waste 
Management and 
distribution of water 
(drink water) 
Water treatment (waste 
water) 

1.123.790.899 

136.016.259 

12,1% 

4.270.266.273 

894.407.700 

20,9% 

2.304.553.527 

418.171.980 

18,1% 

6.239.490.861 

1.017.714.614 

16,3% 

8.143.908.866 

1.677.872.585 

20,6% 

13.886.543.167 

3.817.546.044 

27,5% 

Environment 

47 

Air quality 

1.018.376.565 

63.647.821 

6,2% 

48 

49 

50 

51 

Integrated prevention 
and pollution control  

Mitigation and adaption 
to climate change 

Rehabilitation of 
industrial sites and 
contaminated land 
Promotion of 
biodiversity and nature 
protection (including 
Natura 2000) 

738.943.655 

67.660.706 

9,2% 

304.727.396 

224.861.474 

73,8% 

3.451.309.651 

417.323.348 

12,1% 

2.675.723.383 

483.042.811 

18,1% 

53 

Risk prevention (...) 

5.801.167.699 

706.753.238 

12,2% 

54 

55 

56 

58 

59 

60 

Other measures to 
preserve the 
environment and 
prevent risks 
Promotion of natural 
assets 
Protection and 
development of natural 
heritage 
Protection and 
preservation of the 
cultural heritage 

Development of cultural 
infrastructure 

Other assistance to 
improve cultural 
services 

1.675.670.593 

799.896.097 

47,7% 

1.136.699.224 

249.861.896 

22,0% 

1.405.222.209 

243.432.087 

17,3% 

2.933.794.281 

703.932.486 

24,0% 

2.233.157.980 

750.862.010 

33,6% 

797.433.362 

81.253.458 

10,2% 

Cultural and 
Social  

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% 

RTDI 

Guideline: 
Improving 
knowledge 
and 
innovation 
for growth 

77 

Childcare infrastructure  

555.726.179 

176.963.608 

31,8% 

78 

Housing infrastructure 

950.014.977 

176.225.509 

18,5% 

79 

01 

02 

03 

Other social 
infrastructure 
R&TD activities in 
research centres  
R&TD infrastructure 
and centres of 
competence in a 
specific technology 
Technology transfer 
and improvement of 
cooperation networks ... 

2.894.664.878 

669.541.018 

23,1% 

5.806.164.273 

1.973.175.795 

34,0% 

9.738.640.336 

3.157.233.927 

32,4% 

5.446.089.255 

1.011.294.995 

18,6% 

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5.772.595.500 

1.248.492.134 

21,6% 

2.475.879.153 

484.945.381 

19,6% 

8.670.367.334 

2.929.283.498 

33,8% 

6.861.090.285 

2.535.755.318 

37,0% 

4.932.083.235 

843.135.271 

17,1% 

5.254.107.502 

1.727.698.194 

32,9% 

3.220.591.505 

490.507.600 

15,2% 

3.542.430.597 

1.151.475.700 

32,5% 

523.302.208 

178.745.702 

34,2% 

5.217.998.422 

1.007.895.931 

19,3% 

2.114.759.867 

165.566.454 

7,8% 

1.508.593.777 

352.193.160 

23,3% 

14.085.604.672 

5.671.286.416 

40,3% 

9.675.045.933 

2.254.455.075 

23,3% 

8.693.100.234 

2.234.983.589 

25,7% 

12.502.812.298 

4.099.916.284 

32,8% 

1.897.998.513 

158.242.092 

8,3% 

04 

06 

07 

09 

74 

05 

68 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

08 

62 

72 

73 

63 

Assistance to R&TD, 
particularly in SMEs 
(including access to 
R&TD services in 
research centres) 
Assistance to SMEs for 
the promotion of 
environmentally-friendly 
products and 
production processes 
Investment in firms 
directly linked to 
research and 
innovation (...) 
Other measures to 
stimulate research and 
innovation and 
entrepreneurship in 
SMEs 
Developing human 
potential in the field of 
research and 
innovation, in particular 
through post-graduate 
studies ... 
Advanced support 
services for firms and 
groups of firms 
Support for self-
employment and 
business start-up 
Information and 
communication 
technologies (...) 
Information and 
communication 
technologies (TEN-ICT) 
Services and 
applications for citizens 
(e-health, e-
government, e-learning, 
e-inclusion, etc.) 
Services and 
applications for SMEs 
(e-commerce, 
education and training, 
networking, etc.) 
Other measures for 
improving access to 
and efficient use of ICT 
by SMEs  

Other investment in 
firms  

Development of life-
long learning systems 
and strategies in firms; 
training and services for 
employees ... 

Design, introduction 
and implementing of 
reforms in education 
and training systems ... 

Measures to increase 
participation in 
education and training 
throughut the life-cycle 
... 
Design and 
dissemination of 
innovative and more 
productive ways of 
organising work 

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Entrepreneu
rship 

ICT 

Other 
Investment 
in firms 

Guideline: 
More and 
better jobs 

Human 
capital 

Labour 
Market 

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Development of special 
services for 
employment, training 
and support in 
connection with 
restructuring of sectors 
...  
Modernisation and 
strengthening labour 
market institutions 
Implementing active 
and preventive 
measures on the labour 
market 
Measures encouraging 
active ageing and 
prolonging working 
lives 
Measures to improve 
access to employment 
and increase 
sustainable 
participation and 
progress of women ... 
Specific action to 
increase migrants' 
participation in 
employment ... 
Pathways to integration 
and re-entry into 
employment for 
disadvantaged people 
... 
Promoting the 
partnerships, pacts and 
initiatives through the 
networking of relevant 
stakeholders 
Mechanisms for 
improving good policy 
and programme design, 
monitoring and 
evaluation ... 

Other assistance to 
improve tourist services 

Integrated projects for 
urban and rural 
regeneration 
Compensation of any 
additional costs due to 
accessibility deficit and 
territorial fragmentation 
Specific action 
addressed to 
compensate additional 
costs due to size 
market factors 
Support to compensate 
additional costs due to 
climate conditions and 
relief difficulties 
Preparation, 
implementation, 
monitoring and 
inspection  
Evaluation and studies; 
information and 
communication 

64 

65 

66 

67 

69 

70 

71 

80 

81 

57 

61 

82 

83 

84 

85 

86 

2.758.540.858 

547.288.723 

19,8% 

2.345.253.742 

605.767.408 

25,8% 

12.152.127.292 

3.895.030.482 

32,1% 

1.043.599.104 

109.212.232 

10,5% 

2.637.447.072 

675.319.676 

25,6% 

1.244.192.527 

253.293.912 

20,4% 

10.064.573.391 

2.584.142.038 

25,7% 

1.279.205.168 

181.907.596 

14,2% 

3.566.427.865 

727.832.977 

20,4% 

3.779.651.032 

1.320.318.586 

34,9% 

10.136.013.807 

2.981.940.305 

29,4% 

474.847.281 

76.273.274 

16,1% 

128.961.873 

1.389.700 

1,1% 

43.661.332 

5.141.711 

11,8% 

7.753.873.689 

2.434.848.538 

31,4% 

2.839.734.876 

557.932.857 

19,6% 

Social 
Inclusion 

Capacilty 
Building 

Territorial Dimension 

Technical Assistance 

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Core Indicators reported by the National Strategic Reports 

N. of Core Indicators 
used 

Targets_ 
Programme 

Targets_ 
Committed projects 

Achievements 
reported* 

8 

2 

15 

3 

11 

6 

0 

0 

0 

4 

0 

0 

6 

0 

6 

 13 

0 

0 

4 

1 

0 

4 

1 

5 

0 

AT 

BE 

BG 

CY 

CZ 

DE  

8 

2 

18 

3 

13 

8 

DK 

Info not available 

EE 

EL 

ES 

FI 

FR 

HU 

IE 

IT 

LT 

LU 

LV 

MT 

NL 

PL 

PT 

3 

3 

0 

4 

0 

17 

8 

0 

6 

 13 

0 

0 

4 

24 

13 

RO 

Info not available  

SE 

SK 

SL 

UK 

4 

1 

5 

0 

* Achievement values different from 0  

. 

EN 

8 

2 

0 

0 

8 

0 

0 

3 

0 

0 

0 

17 

 0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

4 

24 

13 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

5 

3 

7 

8 

3 

0 

0 

4 

0 

0 

7 

0 

5 

10 

0 

0 

0 

4 

0 

4 

0 

3 

0 

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