ESI Funds Intensive School – Sprimg 2018, Brussels-30 maggio 2018

ROSSELLA RUSCA

La politica di coesione post 2020Prime considerazioni sulle proposte di

Quadro finanziario pluriennale e Regolamenti 2021-2027

Structure of MMF 2014-2020

STRUCTURE OF MMF 2021-2027

EARDF is not anymore part of the “family”. Just “EU Funds”, not “Structuraland Investment Funds” governed by a Common Strategic Framework.

Cohesion objective is ancillar; first the CPR “EU Funds” have to finance the 5 policy objectives, then the Structural Funds, in doing so, contribute to cohesion ex art 174 of TFUE

Partnership Agreement (PA): no analysis of disparities and territorial needs, no territorial development approach, no ex-ante assessment, no assessment of ex-ante conditionalities, no assessment of additionality. Guidance for investmentscomes from the Economic Semester process (Annual Growth Report and Country Reports) in 2019 and 2024. The PA is only a tool for demarcation of interventions, identification of synergies, listing of expenditures and programmes.

Flexibility versus certainty of investments:• Mid-term review of the MMF and of the programmes• Programming only 5 years• Transfer of funds among cathegories of regions, between programmes,

between management models, between headings and within headings of the MMF

Performance frame work continues without rewards or sanctions

Thank you for your attention!

Rossella RuscaEsperto per la politica regionale e i fondi strutturali

Rappresentanza permanente dell’Italia presso l’UE

profin@rpue.esteri.it