While the focus of assistance continued to be on major projects, JASPERS intensified activity aimed at improving the technical capacity of public administrations and promoters in areas like integrated strategic planning, cost-benefit analysis, compliance with EU environmental requirements, state...
The EU Member States and regions are currently investing in sustainable and innovative energy projects using European Structural and Investment Funds in order to meet their energy security and environmental targets. This support granted by Member States may distort competition and affect trade b...
Modern and efficient public administrations are necessary to ensure fast and high-quality services for firms and citizens. This, in turn, may lead to more efficient public spending and increase the focus on measures reinforcing economic growth. In this context, the use of ICT and the deployment ...
The EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change of 2013 includes actions to enhance the resilience of infrastructure and mainstream climate adaptation into the European regional and cohesion policy. The Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) of 2013 states under article 8 that climate change mitigat...
The transport sector has experienced a large number of positive impacts as a result of developments in information and communication technologies related to operational improvements, route planning, fleet and cargo monitoring and safety as well as security issues in the (recent) past. These deve...
The Commission presents a Communication that sets out a vision of how certain budgetary functions that are essential for the euro area and the EU as a whole can be developed within the framework of the EU’s public finances of today and tomorrow....
The Public Procurement Stock-taking Study launched by DG REGIO assembled a comprehensive picture of procurement across the EU, including the capacities, experiences, practices, organisational and governance structures, human resources and systems and tools used by the Member States (MS). The stu...
In the frame of the Stairway to Excellence project, complex country analysis was performed for the EU MS that joined the EU since 2004, with the objective to assess and corroborate all the qualitative and quantitative data in drawing national/regional FP7 participation patterns, understand the p...
