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PMC HCIOP Structural Funds – preparations for next ‘round’

Mullingar, 12.12.2012

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Commission Position Paper Contents

• A. Context
• B. Challenges and Priorities relevant to Funds
• C. Success Factors for Effective Delivery
• D. What next?

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Content s

Common Strategic Framework

• Strategic, integrated, coordinated and coherent

approach

• Thematic concentration
• Prioritisation for visible results
• Results orientation
• Cooperation
• Simplification

3 Context

THE COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, EMFF THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, EMFF Operational Programmes for ERDF (incl. ETC) ESF EMFF EAFRD

EU level

National level

Context 4

Socio-economic situation in Ireland

• Ireland GDP per capita 129 % (2011) of the EU-

27 (2009: 127%)

• Regional disparities (2009) between Southern

and Eastern (142%) and Border, Midland and Western (89%)

• Unemployment: 14,7% (2011) (of which 59,4%

long-term in nature)

• Youth unemployment: 29,1% (2011)
• At-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion 29,9%

(2010)

5 Context

Europe 2020 headline targets

Europe 2020 headline targets Current situation Ireland National 2020 target - NRP

3% of EU GDP to be invested in research and development 1.8% 2% 20% energy from renewables 5,8% 16% 75% population aged 20-64 should be employed 64,1% 69-71% Reduction in number of people in EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion by al least 20 million 277000 200000

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Why a Position Paper?

• Context: closer alignment with Europe 2020

strategy, Memorandum of Understanding and Country Specific Recommendation

• Pro-active approach: "no surprises" early stage

information on Commission services' position on Member State priorities for 2014-2020

• Based on challenges and development needs
• Clears the way for informal dialogue between

Commission services and Member States

7 Context

• B. Challenges and Priorities relevant

to the Funds

• High levels of unemployment, increasingly long-

term in nature

• High youth unemployment
• Increasing risk of social exclusion

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• High unemployment, increasingly long-term

in nature:

9 Significant challenges

Youth Unemployment and NEET rate

10 Significant challenges

Level of early school leaving above national target for 2020

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Source: Eurostat

Significant challenges

Increasing risk of Poverty and social exclusion

12 Significant challenges

Combatting

• 1. long-term unemployment
• 2. youth unemployment and
• 3. social exclusion

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Funding priority

• 1. Promoting employment and labour mobility

1.1. Access to employment and support for labour mobility:

• Support the unemployed, with a particular focus on the

long-term unemployed, to access employment

• Improve qualification levels of low skilled unemployed, with

a particular focus on low skilled long-term unemployed

• Support women to (re)integrate into the labour market

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1.2. Sustainable integration of young people not

in employment, education or training (NEET) into the labour market

• Support NEETS to participate in training programmes which

include work experience with labour market relevance;

• Support the introduction of the youth guarantee that aims

at offering support to young people not in employment, education and training within 4 months of leaving school.

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• 1.3. Modernisation and strengthening of labour

market institutions

• Support the development of skills of PES staff
• 1.4. Facilitating diversification and job creation

in rural areas

• Up-skilling, job creation and entrepreneurship in rural areas
• 1.5. Facilitating the transition towards new

skills and jobs from fisheries and related activities

• Support for quality job creation in coastal communities

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• 2. Promoting social inclusion
• 2.1. Active inclusion:
• Support people in poverty or at risk of poverty and social exclusion to

access counselling, training and other activities, with the aim to bring them closer to the labour market;

• Preventative support at an early stage for children and teenagers of

vulnerable groups to help them integrate in the labour market and society.

• 2.2. Support to basic services and other poverty

reduction measures in rural and coastal areas, including

• Provision or adaptation of local basic services and promotion of

entrepreneurship and skills acquisition,

• Fostering Community-led Local Development (CLLD) including LEADER

local development strategies and investments in small- scale infrastructures.

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• 3. Investing in education and lifelong learning
• 3.1. Reducing early school-leaving :
• Support early school leavers and low skilled people to gain upper

secondary education and to reduce low achievement in basic skills.

• 3.2. Lifelong learning, training and advisory services for

farmers, seafarers and rural population

• Support the transfer of knowledge in particular on good farm and forestry

management practice.

• Support vocational training, entrepreneurship and skills acquisition in new

technologies specific to the marine industry, agriculture and forestry.

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Challenges and Priorities relevant to the Funds

Insufficient commercialisation of basic research and low availability of finance for the private sector (especially SMEs) Irleand 10th on the Innovation Union scoreboard and Innovation Follower

• Funding Priority:
• Promote R&D investment and the

competitiveness of the business sector

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Challenges and Priorities relevant to the Funds

Inefficient use of resources

• 5,8% share of renewable energy sources in final

consumption

• 7,6% reduction in GHG emissions – long way to

go to reach 20% target in 2020 Funding Priority: Promotion of an environmentally-friendly and resource efficient economy

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• C. Success Factors for Effective

Delivery

• Strategic, integrated, coordinated and coherent

approach

• Monitoring and Evaluation aligned to new

regulatory framework

• Coordination, complementarity and synergy

between CSF funds including use of integrated approaches (ITIs, CLLD, etc.)

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Ex-ante conditionalities:

• Smart Specialisation Strategy
• Active labour market policies are designed and

delivered in coherence with Employment Guidelines

• Fisheries-related conditionalities (multi-annual

strategic plan on aquaculture, administrative capacity for data collection and implementation

• f an EU control, inspection and enforcement

system)

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Monitoring and evaluation

Emphasis should shift from financial absorption to

• results. This implies building robust monitoring and

evaluation capacities, implying:

• Setting of reliable targets and tracking of physical

progress

• Improved alert mechanisms
• In-depth evaluations and conversion of results into

remedial measures when required

• Development of sound methodologies to capture the

results of the interventions

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Integrated approaches to territorial development

• A broad range of instruments are provided for in this

regard and should be fully grasped (e.g. Atlantic Strategy)

• In order to stimulate ownership, the role of local actors

should be enhanced in line with the LEADER experience

• Integrated Territorial Investments allow the flexible

implementation of parts of OPs in a cross-cutting manner – their success may critically depend on setting up sound management structures

• Community-led Local Development offers an integrated

bottom-up approach in response to complex territorial challenges

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• D. What Next?
• Informal dialogue meetings between Commission

and Ireland

• Submission of draft Partnership Agreement
• Negotiation mandate and observations on

Partnership Agreement sent to Ireland by Commission

• Adoption Partnership Agreement
• Submission of draft Programmes
• Observations on Programmes by Commission
• Final deadline for adoption of Programmes

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Next steps

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PA adoption by EC Second semester 2013 Second semester 2013 Beginning

• f the official

negotiations between EC and Ireland Decemberr 2012 Decemberr 2012 Launch Ireland

December 2012 until submission PA by MS December 2012 until submission PA by MS

Informal dialogue between EC and Ireland - Discussion

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specific areas PA/OPs Second semester 2013 Second semester 2013 Q1 2014 Q1 2014 First half 2014 First half 2014 Official submission PA and OPs OP adoption by EC

What next?

Timing for negotiations

What next? 27

It is essential to start the preparation of the new programming documents now. Work should start on:

• Ex-ante conditionalities to be fulfilled by the PA

and OPs submission

• Ex-ante evaluation to be ready by the PA and

OPs submission

• Involvement of all partners from the start

ensuring ownership of the programmes

What next?

Thank you.