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28.11.2001 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 334/3 CSF EEPG ERDF ESF FDPMI FSI JER MEANS MSIF NAP OP RDP RIME SME SPD ABBREVIATIONS Community support framework European employment policy guidelines European Regional Development Fund European Social Fund Fonds de dveloppement de la petite et moyenne industrie (Development fund for small businesses) Fonds spcial dŐimplantation (F) (Special fund to encourage the setting-up of businesses) Joint employment report Methods for evaluating activities of a structural nature Merseyside Special Investment Fund (United Kingdom) National action plan Operational programme Regional development plan Microenterprise assistance scheme Small and medium-sized enterprises Single Programming Document 
28.11.2001 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning C 334/3 FDPMI FSI MEANS MSIF RIME F RKORTNINGAR Fonds de dveloppement de la petite et moyenne industrie (Fonden fr utveckling av sm och medelstora industrifretag Đ Frankrike) Fonds spcial dŐimplantation (Srskilda fonden fr fretagsetablering Đ Frankrike) Mthodes dŐvaluation des actions de nature structurelle (Metoder fr utvrdering av strukturtgrder Đ gemenskapsprogram) Merseyside Special Investment Fund (Srskilda investeringsfonden fr Merseyside Đ Frenade kungariket) Regime de Incentivo s Micro Empresas (Systemet fr std till mycket sm fretag Đ Portugal)
C 334/4 EN Official Journal of the European Communities SUMMARY I. Increasing employment is one of the central objectives of the European Union. 
C 334/4 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning SAMMANFATTNING I. En kad sysselsttning r ett viktigt ml fr Europeiska unionen.
The Court analysed the roles played by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the European Employment Strategy. 
Revisionsrtten har analyserat den roll som Europeiska socialfonden (ESF) och Europeiska regionala utvecklingsfonden (ERUF) spelar inom den europeiska sysselsttningsstrategin.
The Court also examined to what extent employment was taken into account when developing evaluation methodology and during the implementation of the measures for the planning period 1994 to 1999, and, more specifically, in the context of the implementation of measures in support of productive investment co-financed by the ERDF. 
Dessutom har revisionsrtten granskat i vilken mn sysselsttningen har beaktats i utvecklingenavutvrderingsmetoderochigenomfrandetavolikatgrderunderprogramperioden1994Đ1999, i synnerhet nr det gller det std till investeringar i produktion som medfinansieras av ERUF. Drutver har revisionsrtten kontrollerat genomfrandet av gemenskapens tgrder till frmn fr de lngtidsarbetslsa.
In addition, the CourtŐs audit focused on the implementation of Community measures to help the long-term unemployed, most of which are co-financed by the ESF within the framework of Objectives 1 and 3. 
Dessa tgrder medfinansieras till strsta delen av ESF inom ramen fr ml 1 och ml 3.
The CourtŐs audit identified inconsistencies between the Employment Strategy, and the activities of the ESF andtheERDF: Ń since the introduction in 1997 of the European Employment Strategy, the ESF planning timetable has not coincided with the schedule drawn up for taking decisions in the context of the Employment Strategy, Ń to combat unemployment, the Employment Strategy focuses, primarily, on preventive measures and does not give sufficient consideration to the curative measures which are required to deal with the problem of long-term and very long-term unemployment, Ń the employment guidelines drawn up annually by the Council make no explicit mention of the ERDF, although the impact of the ERDF on employment is not inconsiderable. 
Revisionsrttens granskning har visat p bristande samstmmighet mellan sysselsttningsstrategin och ESF:s och ERUF:s verksamhet vad gller fljande: Ń Sedan den europeiska sysselsttningsstrategin infrdes 1997 ligger tidtabellen fr ESF:s programplanering inte i fas med tidtabellen fr fattande av beslut inom ramen fr sysselsttningsstrategin. Ń Sysselsttningsstrategin avser i frsta hand frebyggande tgrder mot arbetslshet och beaktar inte i tillrcklig grad de stdtgrder som behvs fr att lsa problemet med lngtidsarbetslshet och extremlngtidsarbetslshet.
The same is true, with some few exceptions, of the national action plans (NAPs) submitted by the Member States and the joint employment reports. 
ERUF nmns inte heller, med ngra undantag, i medlemsstaternas nationella handlingsplaner eller i de gemensamma rapporterna om sysselsttningen.
Because the ERDF, in contrast to the ESF, is omitted, some potential synergies are not being exploited, Ń there was found to be a lack of coordination between the interventions co-financed by the ERDF and the ESF. This was due, amongst other things, to differences between the Regulations, the organisational structures, the procedures for aid applications and grants and the timetables, on the one hand, and the large number of operators on the other. 
Ń Brister har kunnat konstateras i samordningen av de tgrder som medfinansieras av ERUF och ESF, beroende bland annat dels p skillnaderna mellan de bda fonderna i frga om regler, organisationsstruktur, frfaranden fr anskan om och beviljande av std samt tidtabeller, dels p det faktum att s mnga aktrer r inblandade.
There were a number of weaknesses in the regional development plans (RDPs), Community support frameworks (CSFs), Single Programming Documents (SPDs) and operational programmes (OPs), which were drawn up on the basis of very vague instructions from the Commission as regards employment. For Objectives 1 and 3, the formulation of the objectives, both in general terms and in the form of quantitative targets, was often imprecise and did not take every factor into account (jobs created/safeguarded, temporary/full-time jobs, sustainability of employment, accurate data for specific target groups, etc.). 
Flera svagheter finns i de grundlggande dokument Đ regionala utvecklingsplaner, gemenskapsstdramar, samlade programdokument och tgrdsprogram Đ som har utarbetats p grundval av anvisningar frn kommissionen i vilka sysselsttningsaspekterna r mycket vagt formulerade. I dokumenten fr ml 1 och ml 3 r svl de allmnna som de kvantitativa sysselsttningsmlen ofta ospecifika och beaktar inte alla relevanta komponenter (t.ex. skapade/bevarade arbetstillfllen, tillflliga arbetstillfllen/heltidsarbeten, arbetstillfllenas varaktighet, korrekta uppgifter fr enskilda mlgrupper).
In the case of the Objective 2 SPDs for 1997 to 1999, there was some improvement in comparison to the previous programming period. 
I de samlade programdokumenten avseende ml 2 fr 1997Đ1999 har en viss frbttring kunnat sknjas jmfrt med den fregende programperioden.
In this particular instance, the measures in support of productive investment financed by the ERDF included specific job-creation objectives. 
Undantagsvis omfattar tgrderna fr std till investeringar i produktion som finansieras av ERUF srskilda ml fr skapande av sysselsttning.
However, support for infrastructure, support for the development of local potential and assistance for the development of human resources, which, together, use up almost 75 % of the funds made available, were allocated without quantified objectives being specified in the CFSs/SPDs/OPs. 
De vriga tgrdstyperna Đ infrastrukturstd, std till utveckling av regionernas potential till internt genererad utveckling och std till utveckling av mnskliga resurser Đ som tillsammans svarar fr nra 75 procent av de resurser som stllts till frfogande, frdelas utan att kvantitativa ml specificeras i gemenskapsstdramarna, de samlade programdokumenten och tgrdsprogrammen.
The mid-term evaluations ran into both methodological difficulties (lack of uniformity in the concepts applied and absence of clear definitions) and practical difficulties (in particular the absence or unreliability of the necessary data), as well as difficulties with the aggregation of the results in cases where aggregation would have been appropriate. 
Utvrderingarna efter halva tiden av tgrder och program har hmmats av metodproblem (att de begrepp som anvndes inte var enhetliga och att definitionerna var otydliga) och praktiska problem (bland annat att ndvndiga uppgifter saknades eller var otillfrlitliga) samt problem med att sammanstlla resultaten i de fall dr en sdan sammanstllning hade behvts.
V. Contrary to the CommissionŐs guidelines (see paragraph 31), only in exceptional cases was the reprogramming that was carried out for the ERDF-co-financed measures based on analyses of the impact on employment. 28.11.2001 
V. I strid mot vad som sgs i kommissionens riktlinjer (se punkt 31) var det endast i undantagsfall som ndringar i planeringen av tgrder som medfinansierades av ERUF gjordes p grundval av analyser av sysselsttningseffekterna. 28.11.2001
28.11.2001 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 334/5 VI. 
28.11.2001 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning C 334/5 VI.
However, the initiatives taken by the Commission since 1996, particularly the systematic application of theMEANS(1)methodologyandtheintroductionofthetermsproposedintheCommissionworkingdocu-ment for the new period 2000 to 2006, should result in an overall improvement in the situation. 
De initiativ som kommissionen har tagit sedan 1996, bland annat den systematiska tillmpningen av Means-metodiken (1), och infrandet av de begrepp som fresls i kommissionens arbetsdokument fr den nya perioden 2000Đ2006 torde dock resultera i en avsevrd frbttring av situationen.
VII. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) As far as aid to productive investment is concerned, it was found that: some grant notification letters were vague in respect of the obligation to take employment into consideration, and the employment aspect was not necessarily given due weight in the co-financing decision procedures; the penalties attached to failure to comply with the conditions concerning employment were combined with exemptions, which, because they were not precisely formulated, did not favour consistent application oftherules; the efforts made and the mechanisms applied by the Member States in order to avoid deadweight and displacement effects, with the aim of increasing the net effects on employment, varied considerably; even though most of the rules laid down in the SPDs/OPs and aid schemes audited made no provision for supporting enterprises in difficulty in order to safeguard jobs, or did not contain precise details on this matter, the CourtŐs checks showed that the ÔdefensiveŐ aspect of the measures is, nonetheless, very important; the information obtained by monitoring the employment measures is often poorly compiled (inter alia, incorrect or incomplete records, absence of a definition of the concepts used), poorly exploited and not harmonised between the regions. 
VII. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) Nr det gller std till investeringar i produktion har fljande konstaterats: Vissa meddelanden om beviljande av std r fortfarande vaga nr det gller skyldigheten att beakta sys-selsttningsaspekten, och den aspekten tillmts inte alltid vederbrlig vikt i samband med beslut om eventuell medfinansiering. Sanktionerna vid underltenhet att uppfylla sysselsttningsvillkoren r frsedda med undantag som r oprecist formulerade och drfr inte underlttar en konsekvent tillmpning av reglerna.
Likewise, data concerning the impact on employment were often unsatisfactory, as the monitoring systems were not yet able to provide the relevant information; an examination of the monitoring systems revealed that the number of jobs actually created or safeguarded thanks to co-financed projects was only rarely subject to systematic global monitoring. 
Dessutom r uppgifterna om sysselsttningseffekterna ofta fga tillfredsstllande eftersom vervakningsmetoderna nnu inte kan ge tillrcklig information drvidlag. Granskningen av vervakningssystemen har visat att det antal arbetstillfllen som faktiskt skapas eller bevaras tack vare medfinansierade projekt sllan blir freml fr en heltckande och systematisk vervakning.
The databases thus quite often only contained information on job estimates; the databases often contained no figures, or contained poorly analysed figures, concerning jobs safeguarded, or they failed to distinguish between jobs created and jobs safeguarded; the evaluation of the ERDFŐs impact on jobs is complicated and even in danger of being distorted by the fact that the co-financing of a national aid scheme enables the national authorities either to apply for co-financing for an eligible project or to finance it entirely from national funds. 
Ofta innehller databaserna inga eller dligt analyserade sifferuppgifter om antalet bevarade arbetstillfllen, eller ocks grs ingen tskillnad mellan skapade och bevarade arbetstillfllen. Utvrderingen av ERUF:s sysselsttningseffekter kompliceras Đ och riskerar till och med att snedvridas Đ av att reglerna fr medfinansiering av nationella stdsystem ger de nationella myndigheterna mjlighet att fr ett visst stdberttigat projekt vlja att antingen begra medfinansiering genom ERUF eller lta finansieringen best enbart av nationella medel.
In addition, the ceilings set per job created varied greatly (from 4 882 euro, paid in the form of a loan, to 511 292 euro, paid as a subsidy); the monitoring periods set in order to avoid jobs being abolished once all the aid has been paid differed greatly from one scheme to another, as this point has never been dealt with in any regulation. 
Dessutom tillter reglerna fr strukturfonderna att tgrder och projekt som drabbats av problem byts ut mot andra s att det kan skerstllas att alla resurser utnyttjas. Flera medlemsstater har bestmt en vre grns fr stdbeloppet per arbetstillflle, men vissa medlemsstater har inte gjort detta. De faststllda vre grnserna varierar dessutom hgst avsevrt (frn 4 882 euro i form av ln till 511 292 euro i form av bidrag).
The new Regulation laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds (2) and the guidelines on national regionalaid(3)stipulatethatthegrantingofsuchaidisconditionalonthemaintenanceoftheinvestment and the jobs created in the eligible region for a minimum period of five years. 
Enligt den nya allmnna frordningen om strukturfonderna (2) och riktlinjerna fr statligt std fr regionala ndaml (3) krvs dock att ett villkor fr std skall vara att investeringen och de skapade arbetstillfllena vidmakthlls under minst fem r i den berrda stdberttigade regionen.
MEANS was a European Commission programme aimed at improving the methods for evaluating activities of a structural nature. 
Means var ett program som Europeiska kommissionen genomfrde i syfte att frbttra metoderna fr utvrdering av strukturtgrder (Mthodes dŐvaluation des Actions de Nature Structurelle).
Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds (OJ L 161, 26.6.1999). 
Rdets frordning (EG) nr 1260/1999 av den 21 juni 1999 om allmnna bestmmelser fr strukturfonderna (EGT L 161, 26.6.1999).
OJ C 74, 10.3.1998, p. 
EGT C 74, 10.3.1998, s.
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C 334/6 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 28.11.2001 VIII. 
C 334/6 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning 28.11.2001 VIII.
As regards ESF measures to combat long-term unemployment, although there have been improvements in the overall EU unemployment situation in recent years, long-term unemployment has not followed the same trend: (a) information about the management and control systems relating to successful pilot and demonstration projects (Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4255/88 as amended) was not made available to the Commission and Member States, with the result that similar projects were not incorporated in mainstream ESF actions; (b) the implementation in the Member States of ESF-co-financed measures in favour of the long-term unemployed lacked a clear definition of target groups and was given a low priority by national and regional administrations and in national regulatory and management provisions, thereby incurring deadweight costs (see also paragraph VII concerning the ERDF) and suffering delays in implementation. 
Nr det gller ESF:s tgrder fr att bekmpa lngtidsarbetslshet kunde revisionsrtten konstatera att den generella arbetslshetssituationen i EU har frbttrats p senare r men att lget i frga om lngtidsarbetslshet inte har fljt den trenden. a) Uppgifter om systemen fr frvaltning och kontroll i samband med pilot-och demonstrationsprojekt (artikel 6 i rdets frordning (EEG) nr 4255/88, ssom ndrad) delgavs inte kommissionen och medlemsstaterna, vilket ledde till att liknande projekt inte infrlivades med ESF:s huvudsakliga verksamhet. b) Vid genomfrandet i medlemsstaterna av de tgrder till frmn fr de lngtidsarbetslsa som medfinansierades av ESF saknades tydliga definitioner av mlgrupper, och tgrderna gavs dessutom lg prioritet bde av nationella och regionala myndigheter och i nationella regler och freskrifter, vilket ledde till att kostnader p grund av ddviktseffekter uppstod (se ven punkt VII om ERUF) och till att genomfrandet av tgrderna frsenades.
The Court recommends that: (a) coordinationbetweentheEmploymentStrategy,ontheonehand,andtheESFandtheERDF,ontheother, be improved; (b) consistent objectives for employment be defined during the programming at the various policy, programme and subprogramme levels, in order to make evaluation of the impact of the job-creation measures easier; (c)theCommissionensurethattheobligationtotaketheemploymentaspectintoaccountissystematically given its due weight in the co-financing process. 
Revisionsrtten rekommenderar fljande: a) tgrder br vidtas s att sysselsttningsstrategin bttre stmmer verens med ESF och ERUF. b) Konsekventa sysselsttningsml br sttas upp inom programplaneringen p strategi-, program-och del-programniv fr att underltta utvrderingen av sysselsttningsfrmjande tgrders effekt. c) Kommissionen br se till att skyldigheten att beakta sysselsttningsaspekten genomgende tillmts vederbrlig vikt i den process som leder fram till medfinansiering.
In addition, the Commission should take into consideration the necessity of steps to avoid deadweight and displacement effects. 
Dessutom br kommissionen vervga behovet av tgrder fr att undvika ddviktseffekter och undantrngningseffekter.
INTRODUCTION Problems associated with employment and policy measures 1. 
INLEDNING Sysselsttningsrelaterade problem och politiska tgrder 1.
For almost 20 years the average rate of unemployment in the European Union (EU) has virtually never fallen below the 8 % mark. 
Under i det nrmaste 20 r har genomsnittsarbetslsheten i Europeiska unionen (EU) i princip aldrig varit under 8 procent.
At present, there are approximately 14 million unemployed intheEU.Inaddition,inrelationtothepopulationofworking age, the level of employment is low, with an employment rate of 62,1 %. Moreover, there is considerable geographical imbalance in the distribution of unemployment and employment within the EU. 
I dagslget r ungefr 14 miljoner mnniskor arbetslsa i EU. Dessutom r sysselsttningstalet lgt: av befolkningen i arbetsfr lder r det inte mer n 62,1 procent som frvrvsarbetar. Vidare r den geografiska frdelningen inom EU av bde arbetslsheten och sysselsttningen ytterst ojmn.
The employment rates for the various Member States range from 52,3 % to 76,5 % (see Tables 1 and 2). 
Sysselsttningstalet fr medlemsstaterna varierar mellan 52,3 och 76,5 procent (se tabellerna 1 och 2).
In many regions in the south and on the periphery and in many former industrial regions of the EU, employment rates of less than 50 % are common. 
I ett stort antal regioner i EU:s sdra delar och i dess utkanter, liksom i mnga gamla industriregioner, ligger sysselsttningstalet under 50 procent.
The severity of the structural problems affecting employment has gradually become a central preoccupation and at the Essen EuropeanCouncil(December1994)ŃforthefirsttimeŃcom-mon guidelines were drawn up with a view to improving the employment situation. 
Dessa allvarliga strukturella problem p sysselsttningsomrdet har s smningom blivit en central frga, och vid Europeiska rdets mte i Essen (december 1994) faststlldes fr frsta gngen gemensamma riktlinjer fr hur sysselsttningssituationen skulle frbttras.
Subsequently, at the Amsterdam European Council (1997), it was decided to insert a new title devoted to employment in the Treaty establishing the European Community (see also paragraph 6). 
Vid sitt mte ngra r senare i Amsterdam (1997) beslutade Europeiska rdet sedan att infra en ny avdelning om sysselsttning i Frdraget om upprttandet av Europeiska gemenskapen (se ven punkt 6).
2000 (1 ) 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Table 1 Unemployment in the European Union by Member State (figures harmonised by Eurostat) Ń Ń ŃŃŃ 
2000 (1 ) 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Tabell 1 Uppgifter om arbetslsheten i Europeiska unionen per medlemsstat, harmoniserade av Eurostat Ń ŃŃŃ
28.11.2001 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 334/9 Scope of the audit 3. 
28.11.2001 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning C 334/9 Granskningens omfattning 3.
The CourtŐs audit covers two aspects of Structural Funds intervention to combat unemployment: the impact of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) on employment and the European Social Fund (ESF) measures to combat long-term unemployment. 
Revisionsrttens granskning avser tv aspekter av strukturfondernas tgrder mot arbetslsheten: dels inverkan p sysselsttningen av tgrderna inom ramen fr Europeiska regionala utvecklingsfonden (ERUF), dels de insatser mot lngtidsarbetslshet som vidtas av Europeiska socialfonden (ESF).
As far as the ERDF is concerned, the Court examined the role assigned to the ERDF in the context of the European Employment Strategy. 
Nr det gller ERUF granskade revisionsrtten ERUF:s roll inom ramen fr den europeiska sysselsttningsstrategin.
Part of the audit was devoted to the emphasis placed on employment in the implementation of aid schemes in support of productive investment. 
En del av granskningen gllde sysselsttningens betydelse vid genomfrandet av system fr std till investeringar i produktion.
Checks were carried out in the CommissionŐs departments and in nine Member States (Belgium, Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom). 
Kontroller gjordes vid kommissionen och i nio medlemsstater (Belgien, Tyskland, Spanien, Grekland, Frankrike, Irland, Italien, Portugal och Frenade kungariket).
In the Member States/ regions selected, 92 enterprise support projects under 13 schemes for aid to the productive sector were audited, either by means of file audits (38) or on-the-spot checks (54). 
I de utvalda medlemsstaterna och regionerna kontrollerades 92 projekt fr std till fretag, ingende i 13 olika system fr std till nringslivet; 38 av projekten kontrollerades p grundval av bokfringsmaterial och de terstende 54 genom besk p platsen.
The Court also examined 25 ESF projects in five Member States (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain and Italy), whose objective was to combat long-term unemployment, to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the national action plan (NAP) measures. 
Revisionsrtten granskade ven 25 ESF-projekt i fem medlemsstater (Belgien, Tyskland, Grekland, Spanien och Italien) som hade som ml att bekmpa lngtidsarbetslshet och att bedma om genomfrandet av tgrderna i de nationella handlingsplanerna var verkningsfullt.
The CommissionŐs (DG Employment) management systems were examined, with a special focus on the CommissionŐs participation in the Monitoring Committees and on evaluation reports. 
Kommissionens (GD Sysselsttning) frvaltningssystem granskades, med srskild inriktning p kommissionens medverkan i vervakningskommitterna och p utvrderingsrapporterna.