EuropeAid Co-operation Office

Brussels

TACIS CBC SPFTACIS CBC SPFTACIS Cross-Border Co-operation Small Project Facility

The Tacis ProgrammeThe Tacis Programme Links the EU to 13 partner States in

Eastern Europe and Central Asia Actual redeployment of financial resources

in favour of the Western CIS countries, at the new external borders of enlarged EU

The total budget of the Tacis programme for the period 2000-2006 is € 3.138 billion

Tacis comprises both national and multi-country programmes

Cross-border co-operation is one of the multi-country programmes

Tacis CBC SPF has a budget of 8,4 m€ in 2000-2001

The Tacis CBC SPF Team in BrusselsThe Tacis CBC SPF Team in Brussels

Stefanos GOUVRASProgramme Manager Catherine BODSONProgramme Co-ordinator, Project Manager,

Kaliningrad and SW Russia Mia-Fatima DUBOIS-BOUSSAIDProject Manager, NW Russia - Leningrad Oblast Martin EISENBEISProject manager, Belarus and Moldova Stéphane DJERDETProject Manager, Ukraine

Impact on living standards in the border regions of Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine

Cross-border impact: to foster co-operation between regions and local authorities in the NIS, EU and CEC

To support projects addressing a common CBC problem or developing the partners competencies

The Tacis CBC Small Project FacilityThe Tacis CBC Small Project Facility

Overall Objectives

Focuses on:Focuses on:

The cross-border dimension of projects

The sustainability of co-operation

The co-ordination with other funding sources

Budget and durationBudget and duration 2000-2001 budget: 8,4 M €

SPF projects: min. 100.000 €

max. 200.000 €

MPF (Micro Project Facility):

min. 10.000 €

max. 50.000 €

Partners’ co-financing: min 20%

Max. duration: 18 months SPF

6 months MPF

The other Small ProgrammesThe other Small Programmes

Institution Building Partnership Programme (IBPP)

City Twinning

Civil Society

Lien

Key Institutions

Spheres of Co-operationSpheres of Co-operation

Local Economic development

Environment and Energy Efficiency

Administrative Reforms

Social Affairs

Spheres of co-operationSpheres of co-operation

Administrative

Reforms

Management of local and regional self-

government

Local & regionaldemocracy

Finance and budgeting

Decision-making procedures in local

and regional authorities

Relations with the public (e.g.

information provision)

Local Economic

Development

SME support and development

Economic planning and industrial

conversion Economic

development with sectoral focus

Development and tourism strategies

Strategies for tackling

unemployment

Rural diversification

Social Affairs

Urban and social health policy

Integration of national minorities

Youth policy

Education

Environment & Energy Efficiency

Environmental protection and

improvement

Waste treatment strategies

Transport and traffic management

Efficient energy supply and monitoring of

energy use

Use of alternative sources of energy

Who can participate ? (1)Who can participate ? (1)

Core partners

Local or Regional Authorities Association of Local and Regional

Authorities Entity closely linked to the local or

regional authority (Regional Development Agency) and mainly owned by the authority

Min 2 core partners NIS/EU or NIS/Phare

Who can participate ? (2)Who can participate ? (2)

Additional partners

Local or Regional Authorities NGOs Public Utilities Locally or Regionally based education

centres Subcontractors for a limited and specific

part of the project (may even be commercial enterprises)

Examples of Eligible ActivitiesExamples of Eligible Activities

Training of personnel Study visits Establishment of best practice and

procedures System analysis and transfer of

knowledge Establishment of advisory and

development functions Sectoral and regional studies Environmental management Human and institutional capacity

building measures

Types of non-eligible projectsTypes of non-eligible projects

Individual sponsorships Individual scholarships One-off conferences Projects exceeding 18 months Projects submitted by other than

local/regional authorities or associations of local/regional authorities

Singular cultural events

Project Selection CycleProject Selection Cycle

Statistics 2002

144 SPF proposals received 58 Eligible proposals 55 Missing Documents 31 Ineligible proposals

12 MPF 5 Eligible 5 Missing documents 2 Ineligible

1. Registration

22 March

Project Selection CycleProject Selection Cycle

2. Opening Session

9 April

3. Check administrative compliance and eligibility

10 April- 24 April

4. Evaluation Committee I

Decisions on administrative compliance and eligibility

29 April

Copies sent to Delegations

5. Letters to ineligible applicants:Request for missing documents: (deadline : 7 June) up to 10 May

Start preparation of Fact Sheets

6. Evaluation by experts (Panel)

13-19 May

Deadline for Comments of Delegation : 7 June

7. Fact Sheet Completion

with Comments of Delegation

and Experts Evaluation

10-24 June

8. Evaluation Committee II

- Final decision on administrative compliance and eligibility

- Selection of projects

26 June

9. Approval of recommendations of the Evaluation Committee

12 July

10. Preparation of contracts

12-26 July

11. Contracts

signed

By 30 September

Evaluation and Selection Evaluation and Selection CriteriaCriteria

Administrative Compliance

Eligibility of applicants, partners and project

Evaluation of the quality of the proposal

Financial Evaluation of project

Evaluation grid

Grounds for rejection Grounds for rejection of a proposalof a proposal

Application received after the closing date

Application is incomplete The applicant or partners are ineligible The project is ineligible The project is not relevant The relevance and quality of the

proposal is lower than that of the selected proposals

Financial quality is insufficient After consultation with other services,

project is rejected (overlap, bad experience, etc)

Other Sources of FundingOther Sources of Funding

INTERREG: Finnish / Russian border

Phare CBC on CEEC / NIS borders

Co-ordination with the Co-ordination with the other sources of fundingother sources of funding

Exchange of information with Delegation, INTERREG Secretariats and other services of the Commission

Developing common procedures with INTERREG and Phare in view of the future guidelines

Priority to support projects with a clear link to an INTERREG or a Phare project

Before designing a Before designing a project proposalproject proposal Identify the needs/problems of the

beneficiary country Identify if these needs/problems

are met by potential partners in the border regions

Identify the solutions adopted by other countries / border regions / partners

Identify possible partnership with border regions and eventual EU countries

When designing a When designing a project proposalproject proposal

Be clear ! Be consistent Transparency with the project

partners Communication with the partners Budget / Expenses

• Staff• Equipment• Travel expenses and per diems

Sustainability of the project

How can we help ?How can we help ?

Information dissemination Regular updates of the Tacis CBC SPF

website Partner search is put on the web Contacts with the Delegations, Liaison

Offices, NCU ’s, Tacis Branch Offices, other DGs

Assistance to ApplicantsAssistance to Applicants Russia

Kaliningrad and Southwestern Russia: Catherine BODSON (EU Commission)

Leningrad Oblast and Northwestern Russia: Mia-Fatima DUBOIS-BOUSSAID (EU Commission)

St Petersburg Liaison Office

Belarus Martin EISENBEIS (EU Commission) National Co-ordinating Unit (NCU) EC Delegation in Minsk (Tacis

Branch Office)

Assistance to ApplicantsAssistance to Applicants

Moldova Martin Eisenbeis (EU Commission) NCU EC Delegation in Chisinau (Tacis

Branch Office)

Ukraine Stéphane DJERDET (EU

Commission) NCU Delegation of the EU in Minsk

And now ?And now ?

Final Conference of the Tacis CBC SPF March 2000 Submission Round in Brest (Belarus): 27-28/06/2002

Completion of current project selection cycle by end July 2002:

+/- 40 projects should be awarded Revision of the Tacis CBC SPF

guidelines in September 2002 Information Campaigns in all Tacis

CBC regions and the border countries as from last quarter 2002

Launching Days for the awarded projects end 2002 in Odessa (Ukraine)

BelarusBelarus

Tacis Branch Office National Co-ordinating Unit (working

in close co-operation with TBO):

- Provides information about the Calls for Proposals to regional executive committees

- Organises consultations with the applicants and gives advice on the project ideas

- Clarifies some unclear points of guidlines

Contact detailsContact details

Tacis CBC SPF Website:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/tacis_cbc_spf/

The European Commission

1049 Brussels - Belgium

Tel: 00 32 2

Fax: 00 32 2

e-mail: firstname.lastname@cec.eu.int

RussiaRussia

St Petersburg Liaison Office

Malaya Konyushennaya str., 1/3A, office B13a

191186 St-Petersburg, Russia

Tel: ( 7 812) 103 54 60

Fax: (7 812) 103 54 64

e-mail: anastasia.moskvina@cec.eu.int

valentina.chaplinskaya@cec.eu.int

BelarusBelarusNational Co-ordinating Unit - Belarus

for the European Union's TACIS Programme

Leonid Orlov

Room 513, top floor

10, Kollectornaya St.

220004 Minsk, Belarus

Tel: +375 17 - 220 67 48 / 220 87 56

220 64 65 / 227 32 39

Fax: +375 17 - 227 26 15

E-mail: ncu@infonet.by

orlov@infonet.by

BelarusBelarus

Tacis Branch Office

21 Internatsionalnaya St.

2nd Floor

220030 Minsk - Belarus

Tel: +375 17-229 26 13

Fax: +375 17-289 12 81

e-mail: tacis_eudel@infonet.by

MoldovaMoldova

NCU

Technical Assistance Division

Foreign Economic Relations Department

Ministry of Economy

Mr. Veaceslav Scobioala

Piata Marii Aduranii, of.216

Nationale 1, MD-2033 Chisinau

Tel: +373 2 23 83 40

e-mail: vscob@moldova.md

MoldovaMoldova

Tacis Branch Office

Corobceanu Street, 22

2004 Chisinau

Tel: +373-2-24 77 90

Fax: +373-2-24 91 13

e-mail: lborislavljevic@mdl.net

UkraineUkraine

NCU

3rd floor, r. 302, 303, 324

28, Druzhby Narodiv Blvd

01103 Kiev - Ukraine

Tel: +380 44 296 97 89

Tel/Fax: +380 44 294 43 25

Ms Natalia V.Ryabtseva

Tel: + 380 44 261 13 50

Mobile: +380 50 310 59 93

e-mail: ryabtseva@ncu.kiev.ua

UkraineUkraine

EC Delegation

vul. Kruglouniversitetska 10

252024 Kiev - Ukraine

Tel: +380-44-462 00 10

Fax: +380-44-230 23 90

e-mail: mail@ukr.eudel.com

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