EU FUNDING INSTRUMENTS GENERAL REVIEW

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EU FUNDING INSTRUMENTS GENERAL REVIEW
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EU's funding structure 2007-2013 and the
associated instruments and programmes

• Pre-Accession Assistance EU provides funding for
  candidate countries and potential candidate
  countries in order to support their efforts to
  enhance political, economic and institutional
  reforms. This comprises a broad range of
  financial support for various types of projects
  in the fields of agriculture, environment,
  transport, IT, human rights, civil society,
  media, etc.
• External Assistance EU's external assistance
  target other countries than the Member States and
  aims to support various types of reforms,
  political and economic stability, as well as
  countries or regions in crisis.
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EU's funding structure 2007-2013 and the
associated instruments and programmes

• Regional Assistance The regional assistance
  accounts for a larger portion of the expenditures
  and finances regional development within the
  Member States in order to obtain economic and
  social prosperity and to reduce the gaps in
  development between regions.
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• Natural Resources The Natural Resources section
  comprises several funding opportunities in the
  fields of agriculture, rural development,
  environment and fisheries.

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EU's funding structure 2007-2013 and the
associated instruments and programmes

• Community Programmes EU provides financial
  assistance through various community programmes
  in a broad range of fields such as research,
  competitiveness and innovation, media, education,
  health, youth, culture, etc. Different
  organisations, bodies and companies from all
  Member States can participate, as well as
  participants from Non-Member States according to
  their agreements with the EU.
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Management of EU-finds centralized and
decentralized model.
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Community Programmes

• General overview
• The Community Programmes are a series of
  integrated measures accepted by the European
  Commission aiming to strengthen the co-operation
  among the Member States regarding Community
  policies for a period of time. The Community
  Programmes are financed from the general budget
  of the Community. All Acceding and Candidate
  countries have the opportunity to participate in
  the programmes, although, as a main condition of
  participation, an annual fee has to be paid to
  the budget.

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Community Programmes

• Community Programmes can be tied to almost every
  Community policy. The Community decides on the
  type of programmes, their budgets and their
  durations. Any legal entity (sometimes
  individuals, too) can submit a proposal. The
  submission, evaluation and settlement of the
  accounts along with the full administration
  belong to the Administration of the Directorate
  Generals (DGs) of the European Commission.
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Community Programmes

• The proposals can be submitted in a consortium
  with the participation of minimum 2 or more
  organisations from the EU Member States
  (specified in the Calls for Proposals). The
  applicants are directly in contact with EC
  officers, from the submission till the closure of
  the project. However, each participating country
  opens a national programme office or agency
  (either within a competent Ministry or within a
  separate organisation) whose task is the
  collection of information and mediation in order
  to assist the national applicants. In some cases
  the national programme coordinators have higher
  responsibility and competence.

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Transport issues funded under the Community
programmes

• WHITE PAPER European transport policy
• The Marco Polo II programme
• Trans-European transport and energy networks
• CIP-IEEE
• The Galileo programme
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The 2006 White Paper mid-term review priorities M
obility The EU must offer the necessary level of
mobility to people and business Protection
protect the environment, ensure energy security,
promote minimum labour standards, protect the
passenger and the citizen. Innovation increase
the efficiency sustainability of the growing
transport sector, the market new
innovative solutions International dimension the
EU must be a united, leading player in the
international transport
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Regional Assistance

• More than a third of the budget of the Union is
  devoted to regional development and economic and
  social cohesion through a series of European
  funds.
• The objective of EU funding under regional policy
  is to promote solidarity and to reduce the gaps
  in development among the regions and disparities
  among the citizens in terms of well-being.
• Regional assistance aims to help lagging regions
  to catch up, restructure declining industrial
  regions, diversify the economies of rural areas
  with declining agriculture and revitalize
  declining neighborhoods in the cities. It sets
  job creation as its primary concern and it seeks
  to strengthen the economic, social and
  territorial cohesion' of the Union.

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Regional Assistance

• The three new objectives for the period 2007-2013
  are
• Convergence Support emplyment and job creation
  in the Member States and least developed regions
• Regional competitiveness and employment
  Anticipate and encourage the changes in a
  globalised world
• European territorial cooperation Ensure a
  harmonius and balanced development throughout the
  entire Union

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STRUCTURAL INSTRUMENTS
2000-2006
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External Aid programs (for non-EU member states)