Post on 15-May-2018
Secretariat-GeneralSecretariat-General
Technical support to Member States
High-Level MeetingBrussels 5 July 2016
Agenda
• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
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Agenda
• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
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• COM steps up its capacities for supporting MS
• Objective: support the preparation, design and implementation of growth-enhancing reforms
• Focus on implementation and support on the ground - covering all challenges
• Focus on country-specific perspective
• New policy areas
• Coordinating role
Context
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• Creation of the SRSS
• Team of 130 staff/experts
• Located in Brussels and in Member States
• Additional means of funding
- Preparatory action for 2016
- Dedicated programme from 2017 onwards (SRSP)
New capacities for support
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Economic governance processes
• European Semester• Union Law• Policy priorities • Better use of funds
Technical support to Member States
MS reforms at their own initiative
• Other growth-enhancing reforms to achieve sustainable investment, growth and job creation
Adjustment programmes • Conditionalities
• Support provided upon request from the MS
• Ownership of the reforms relies on MS
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Agenda
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Sources of and instruments for support
Sources
• COM services
• MS officials
• Public Agencies
• International Organizations
• Private sector
Instruments
• Expert missions (short term, long term, embedded)
• Study visits
• Analysis (legal, processes, IT, etc.)
• Reform Partnerships
Support
• Scoping missions, EU benchmarking
• Seminars, conferences, workshops, training
• Peer-to-peer exchanges
• Consultancy (legislation, communication, data analysis, change management…)
• Reform design, strategic support
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COM MS officials
Scoping mission Frame and assess the request for support
ImplementationDesign, data analysis, legal advice, deployment
COM, MS officials, IO, public agency
and/or private sector
MS officials Workshops and study visitsEU benchmark
A unique combination of support means
MS "Reform partner" Strategic guidance
Member-State request10
Evaluation
COM, MS
• COM is at disposal of the MS throughout the reform process
• Strategic and technical expertise from other EU Member States
• Unique combination of support providers
• Financing can be made available for all steps of the reform
Key benefits
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Support for policy areas (not exhaustive)
Governance and public
administration
Tax revenue and public financial management
Labour market, health and
social services
Financial sector and access to
finance
Growth and business
environment
• Governance
• Central and local administration
• e-Government
• HR reform
• Better regulation
• Anti-corruption and anti-fraud
• Anti-money laundering
• Revenue collection
• Budget preparation
• Spending reviews
• Fiscal strategy and tax policy
• Supreme audit institutions/ Fiscal Council
• Labour market and laws
• Strategies to mitigate unemployment
• Labour inspectorates
• Welfare system
• Pension system
• Healthcare system
• Access to finance, microfinance
• Credit mediation, insolvency
• CMU
• Venture capital
• Insurance
• Legal and institutional issues
• Supervisory and resolution
• Competition issues
• Investment licensing and regulation
• Competition policy and business dpmt.
• Trade issues
• Digital society
• Land registry
• Sectoral expertise: transport, env., water, agriculture, tourism
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Examples of support provided (non-exhaustive)
Assistance to set up an
inter-ministerial
coordination structure
Governance and public
administration
Assistance for reform of the
judicial system
Assistance for implement. of anti-money-
laundering law
Tax revenue and public financial management
Support for the reorganisation
of the tax
administration
Spending reviews
Assistance in setting up a fiscal council
Growth and business
environment
Support for optimisation of renewable
energy sources
Strengthening the
implement. of energy directives
Assistance in the design
and evaluation of PPP projects
Labour market, health and
social services
Assistance with
introduction of services voucher system
Assistance for national
rollout of a GMI
Assistance with
development of IT strategy
and infrastructure
for a NHS
Financial sector and access to
finance
Support for SME NPLs
Support for bank
recapitalization
Support for development
of capital markets
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Short version = print & online (80 pages)Full version = online only (500 pages)
http://ec.europa.eu/esf/toolbox
Governance and public administration
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Different sources of funding:
• Technical assistance at the initiative of the Member
States linked to efficient management of the funds
• EUR 13.6 bn in 28 MS implementation by MS
• Technical assistance at the initiative of the Commission
linked to efficient management of the funds
• EUR 1.2 bn implementation by COM
Support for the efficient use of ESIF
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Support at the initiative of the Member States:
• Human resources in key bodies: recruitment and training
• Support to beneficiaries: development of project pipeline
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Studies and strategies
• Promotion and publicity
Support for the efficient use of ESIF
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Support at the initiative of the Commission:
• PEER 2 PEER: better use of available know-how
• Public procurement
• State aid
• Anti-fraud and anti-corruption
• Professionalization of the management of the funds
Support for the efficient use of ESIF
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Three examples:
• TAIEX REGIO PEER 2 PEER
• Integrity Pacts
• Public Procurement Guidance Note
Support for the efficient use of ESIF
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Expert missions Study visits Workshops
Up to 5 Days Up to 2 Days Up to 2 Days
TAIEX-REGIO PEER 2 PEER FACILITATES EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE AMONG MEMBER
STATES ON COHESION POLICY ISSUES
Taiex Regio peer-to-peer
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Public Procurement - Guidance for Practitioners
• Guidance structured around the 6 main stages of a public
procurement process based on a list of 25 most common
errors identified in audits
• Toolkit of resources addressing specific topics with concrete
examples on what to do and what not to do during the
procurement and contract implementation
Public procurement
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Sources and instruments
• Policy areas
• Structural Funds
• Specific assignments
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Aid Regulation for the TC Community
• Overall objective of the regulation:
• To facilitate the reunification of Cyprus by encouraging
the economic development of the Turkish Cypriot
community (TCc) with particular emphasis on the
economic integration of the island, on improving
contacts between the two communities and with the EU,
and on preparation of the acquis communautaire.
• Budget:
• EUR 259 million (2006)
• C.a. EUR 30 million annually since 2011
• Total to date: EUR 416 million 29
Cyprus settlement talks
• COM support through President Juncker's Personal Representative to the UN Good Offices Mission to Cyprus, Pieter Van Nuffel
• COM experts invited to present relevant acquis areas to the Bi-Communal Ad Hoc Committee on EU Preparation
• Visit of Negotiators on 4 February
• Commission strengthened support
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Structural Reform Support Programme
• COM adopted a proposal (ordinary legislative procedure) for the SRSP on Nov 2015 as part of the EU Semester package
• Rationale: MS may benefit from tailored support to design and implement structural reforms
• Duration: 2017-2020
• Estimated budget: EUR 142.8 million (to be split into annual allocations); possible add-on: voluntary contribution from beneficiary MS (transfer of funds to COM)
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SRSP - Objective
• Objective: strengthen the capacity of MemberStates to prepare and implement growth-enhancing reforms, including through assistancefor the efficient and effective use of Union funds
• enhance capacity to implement reform in an integrated manner
• implement appropriate processes and methodologies based on "best" practice
• enhance human resource management
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• Support is demand-driven (MS request for support)
• Triggering factors
• COM decisional process
• Criteria for analysis of request
• COM decides on MS request
• COM implements SRSP via (current proposal)
• Multi-annual work programme (setting priorities, expected results)
• Annual financing decisions (grants, procurements, expert missions, etc.)
Process under the SRSP
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SRSP - timeline
• Council: COREPER approved MS "common position" at end of May 2016
• European Parliament: discussions are ongoing; possible "trilogues" end 2016; plenary vote early 2017
• SRSP entry into force after OJ publication (i.e. post lawyer-linguist revision, translations etc.)
• Start of support operations: after adoption of the annual financing decision under the SRSP
• concrete timing depends on approval of SRSP by co-legislators
• other steps needed under the SRSP: MS request, COM assessment, multi-annual work programme, annual financing decision
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Agenda
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• Context
• Current technical support capacity
• Future developments
• New programme – Structural Reform Support Programme
• New areas – Capital Markets Union
Offering technical support covering a number ofissues:
• Financial institutions: Legal and institutional issues,including supervision, resolution and competitionissues;
• Access to finance, including Capital MarketsUnion, micro-finance, credit mediation and venturecapital;
• Insolvency: Legal and institutional issues; and
• Insurance undertakings: Legal and institutionalissues, including supervision and regulation.
Financial sector support
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• Major Commission initiative to mobilise capital in the EU.
• Goals are to:
• Unlock more investment from the EU and the rest of the world
• Better connect financing to investment projects across the EU
• Make the financial system more stable
• Deepen financial integration and increase competition
Capital Markets Union
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1. Increasing supply of non-bank finance for
companies, in particular for SMEs (private debt
and equity);
2. Increasing demand for non-bank finance;
information provision, signposting and guidance;
3. Market infrastructure;
4. Strengthen supervisory capacity – N.B. first
project underway in this area.
Potential discussion areas
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Timeline
July-August:
Commission, together with potential TA providers, finalise indicative list of areas for support
September-October:
Engagement with Member States to allow Member States to indicate their own priorities
November onwards:
Development of projects in preparation for SRSP adoption (within the procedures laid down by the SRSP)
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