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How did Austrian RDA‘s prepare to enter the EU

Lublin, June 2001

MANFRED KOJANÖAR Regional Development Consultants

A-1010 Vienna / Austria


Background

• Austria accessed the EU in January 1995• Austria has a very strong federalistic structure• 9 NUTS II regions• inhomogeneous and diversified regional and local

development structures


RDA‘s in Austria

WIBAG

Wirtschaftsservice Burgenland AG

ECO-PlusTMG

Upper Austrian Technology and Marketing Agency

SFG

Styrian Business Agency

Salzburg Agency

Tech-Tyrol

VTTZ

Vorarlberg Region

KWF

Carinthian Business Agency

WWFF

Vienna Business Agency

NUTS II: 9 RDAs

NUTS II-III: 25 local development promotion, 40 LEADER, BIC, TEC, Business Incubators, ...


Austrian accession process• strong lead on national level

BKA (Austrian Chancellery)ÖROK (Austrian Spacial Co-ordination Conference)

• Regional Programmes on NUTS II level developedcounty administrationexternal process assistance (ÖIR, ÖAR, SIR,...)

• low development of RDAsone of several involved partners within the process (sectoral/regional experts)


How Austrian‘s regions prepare for EU accession

• no EU but some national money for EU-accession preparation

• ÖROK/ÖAR studies, analysis of how other EU countries prepared their programmes

• ÖROK: programming meeting for dissemination of EU-accession, Know how to RDAs and Regional Administration

• RDAs (and Regional Administration) adapt their subsidy system to EU conformity

• RDAs: learning by doing


The actual position of Austrian RDAswithin EU-programming and programme implementation

• Important experts (regional Know-How) within the programming process

• High involvement in INTERREG programmes (programming, specific projects, ...)

• co-ordination and administration of some of the EU-structural funds (and national funds)

• Development and management of own (RDA) EU projects

• Assistance for region to develop projects for EU co-financing


Interregional co-operation of Austrian RDAs

The Information Net ofRegional Development Agencies

in theCentral European and Danubian Area


BLR

HUNAUT

CZESVK

SVN

MLT

ITA

The RDA-Net CEDA Area

AustriaItalyGermany

Czech RepublicSlovakiaHungarySloveniaPoland


CEDA International Conference:Networking Regions

"Regional Development and TransnationalCo-operation in an enlarging EU"

June 18th / 19th 2001, Vienna and Sankt Pölten, Austria

Major Topics of the conference:• RDAs and their role for the regions • Networks and Networking• Transnational Co-operation • Panel Discussion: EU Structural Funds and community

initiatives after EU-Enlargement

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