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HomeSupport of ESI funds to the implementation of the country specific recommendations and to structural reforms in Member States
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Structural reforms are essential to ensure an effective use of European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds. At the same time, ESI Funds can contribute to implement structural reforms, specifically those that require public investments. An analysis of 2014-2020 ESI Funds programming highlights that the Country-Specific Recommendations (CSRs), proposed by the Commission as part of the European Semester in 2012-2015, as well as other structural challenges identified in the EC Country Reports and in the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) have been taken up in the strategic choices set out in Operational Programmes (OPs). An analysis of Specific Objectives (SOs) selected in the OPs shows that CSRs have not only been taken up in strategic choices but also that the ESI Funds are actually contributing to implement them. This study also highlights that ex-ante conditionalities and administrative capacity building financed by ESI Funds have been useful to stimulate structural reforms. The linkages between ESI Funds and CSRs are particularly well developed in relation to active labour market policy and network industries, less in other policy areas. Despite these linkages, the CSRs are often too generally defined, without targets and milestones for their implementation, and there is no systematic monitoring. Therefore, their alignment with the ESI Funds can be further strengthened by intervening on both the European Semester and the ESI Fund programming.
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- Themes: Community finance , Regional policy and regional economies , Public procurement
- Subject: administrative reform , EU Member State , investment project , operational programme , public investment , report , Structural Funds
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-79-86949-5 | DOI 10.2767/508246 | Catalogue number KE-01-18-625-EN-N |
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