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Kurt HaugenFinancial Mechanism OfficeBucharest, 7 June 2011

EEA Grants 2004 – 2009

Summing up of results and lessons learned

 

Reducing disparities Strengthening relations

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Agenda Funds Allocation Committed funding Partnerships Disbursement rates Preliminary results Information

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Country allocations of EEA and Norway Grants

From the total amount of EEA and Norway Grants (1,183,770,000 EUR) 4 % has been allocated to Romania

Poland45%

Spain4%

Cyprus0%

Bulgaria2%

Slovenia1%Slovakia

6%Romania

4%

Portugal3%

Czech Republic9%

Estonia3%

Greece3%

Hungary11%

Latvia4%

Lithuania5%

Malta0%

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Committed funding (EEA and NRW Grants) in all Beneficiary states (by Priority sector)

The EEA Grants represent 54 % (624.347.152 EUR) of the total committed amount of EEA Grants and Norway Grants (1,151,736,049 EUR)

Human resource development 123,752,071 (11%)

Implementing Schengen / strengthening the judiciary

121,031,326 (11%)

NGO fund85,347,695 (7%)

Promotion of sustainable development

38,281,418 (3%)

Protection of environment 217,240,938 (19%)

Technical assistance acquis communitaire

3,870,664 (0%)

Technical assistance for grant management

20,259,794 (2%)

Regional policy 25,824,152 (2%)

Seed money facility 3,969,229 (0%)

Academic research 80,467,154 (7%)

Conservation of European cultural heritage

251,022,746 (23%)

Cross-border activities 15,825,648 (1%)

Health and childcare 164,843,214 (14%)

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Romania – committed funding (by Priority sector) The total committed funds equal to 46.300.812 EUR in Romania

40 individual projects (85 % of total committed amount in Romania) 2 Funds (13 % of total committed amount in Romania) 1 Technical Assistance for Grant Management (2 % of total committed amount in Romania)

NGO fund5,098,189 (11%) Human resource

development6,104,429 (13%)

Promotion of sustainable development264,688 (1%)

Protection of environment

8,433,115 (18%)

Technical assistance for grant management

910,350 (2%)

Regional policy255,003 (1%)

Academic research3,356,438 (7%)

Conservation of European cultural

heritage8,092,337 (17%)

Health and childcare13,786,263 (30%)

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Partnerships in all Beneficiary states (by Priority Sector, in EUR and number of projects)

56

56,639,019

38

61,683,001

3

944,21732

21,700,381

45

49,840,797

14

35,486,646

12

13,393,527

45

33,183,735

14

7,677,396

Academicresearch

Conservation ofEuropeanculturalheritage

Cross-borderactivities

Health andchildcare

Humanresource

development

ImplementingSchengen /

strengtheningthe judiciary

Promotion ofsustainabledevelopment

Protection ofenvironment

Regional policy

22 % out of 1181 projects/funds in all Beneficiary states notified partnership cooperation (including both source of Funding EEA and NRW Grants)

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Romania – Partnerships (by Priority Sector, in EUR and number of projects)

23% out of 40 projects in Romania notified Partnership cooperation

1

1,776,573

3

4,527,846

1

680,0004

2,463,746

Academic research Conservation ofEuropean cultural

heritage

Health and childcare Human resourcedevelopment

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Committed funding (in EUR) versus disbursement rate (in % as of 31 May 2011) for all Beneficiary states

The current average disbursement rate reached 67 % (including both source of funding EEA and NRW Grants)

Romania achieved level 41% (of the total committed amount in Romania)

19,423,88247.27%

4,352,56273.90%

104,579,57081.91%

30,388,04487.13%

30,885,8385.41%

42,949,58438.46%

122,647,79647.51%

63,200,29246.84%50,176,24567.53%

3,387,88461.63%

526,221,07081.75%

29,502,77949.69%

46,797,88841.29%

17,370,92578.89%

59,851,69076.01%

BG

CY

CZ

EE

EL

ES

HU

LT

LV

MT

PL

PT

RO

SI

SK

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Results Out of 43 projects in Romania

33 projects with the eligibility deadline April 2011

7 projects with the extended eligibility deadline April 2012

2 projects are likely to be completed under the reserve of FM 09-14

1 terminated

Too early for final result – assessment of PCRs needed

Decision by the Donors – transformation from project-based to programme-based approach and application of results based management in FM 2009-2014

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