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Annual Implementation.Reports (AIR) 2013

… on 7 years of activity

DG REGIO B2-European Semester & Evaluation

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Outline

1. Annual Implementation Reports (AIR) process

2. Categorisation - Tracking the inputs 3. Core Indicators – measuring the outputs 4. Next steps & Conclusions

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1. 2013 AIR process (ERDF) still incomplete & slower that 2012 !!

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• Approving AIRs … 2 month slower than last year … • @January 2015

• 200 / 249 – Accepted 81%• 18 - 7% - With DG REGIO • 31 – 12% - With MA (Interrupted or rejected)

• Overlapping with 2014-2020 preparations.• Not all interruptions are linked to data.• Stats exclude ESF and ETC programmes.

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AIR 2013 treatment – MA/REGIO

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2. Project Selectionannual aggregate trends

Date EUR Billion % allocated

09/2009 93.4 27.1%

12/2009 90.8 26.4%

12/2010 181 52.2%

12/2011 244 70.4%

12/2012 291.5 83.9%

12/2013 317.9 91.6%

Total Budget decided (2012)

346.7 100%

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Project selection – 2013"Gross" and capped at 100% of OP

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Project selection – 2013

Main Messages •91.8 % of total volume allocated to projects is to low !!•Varies from 53% to over 150% by MS

Still some data reliability issues •Mis-allocations / reporting …

ES – Payment based not proejct selection ?NL – ESF problem … not cumulative?

•Over programming in some programmes => dormant project

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Turning project selection to spending … (2013 selection vs 2014 spend)

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Turning project selection to spending … (2013 vs 2014 expend Declarations)• AT & ES appear to report on payments only - not

project selection• Project selection is not a guarantee of spending:

some projects naturally take longer to mature and spend

• Capacity is a real problem in many important programmes

Co-financing - Administrative and techncial capacity - Beneficiaries

• Significant N+2/3 decommitments have started (400 m€ in 2014)

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Project selection by major theme – relative progress

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Project selection by major theme

• At this aggregate level differences between rates of project selection still persist

• Delays in Rail – Energy • Others are well ahead of average:

Roads, Social Infrastructure – Tourism culture – Generic Business Support

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3. Core Indicators - measuring outputsERDF/CF

• Delayed finalisation of 20% of OP AIR !!! • Plausibility checked by REGIO • Manual corrections & analysis still done by REGIO• WP zero also checking

- Consistency of definitions / Measurement units

- AIR text vs SFC data

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3a. Improved data but certain limitations

Key weaknesses:•Core Indicators not collected/used when relevant (i.e. several FR, DE programmes)•Inconsistent definitions and practices (Jobs, Km road, rail )

•Reporting "contracted" not "completed" (Significant corrections in GR, ES, and other specific OPs)•Units of measure (MW, Km², ...) •Quality control in certain OPs or Nationally

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4. Next Steps

Ex-Post 2007-2013 •Work Package "zero" being finalised•All other thematic packages launched – Deadline end 2015/ early 20162014 AIR: •Will MAs integrate WPzero corrections? •Present consistent trend in outputs? Final IR (2017): •reconcile categorisation data with final declaration•Final statement of outputs achieved

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Conclusions • Better data … but not perfect • In certain programmes … still slow progress on

project selection … growing absorption concerns• Outputs growing steadily as projects are

completed – but uneven reporting

• OPEN Data platform will be updated in Feb 2015 with 2013 data (excel files online also for researchers)

• 2013 data will be the basis for ex-post 2007-2013• Important input to the impact assessment post-

2020.

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