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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



• Policy areas






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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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Agenda

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• Context



• Policy areas






Agenda

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• Context



• Policy areas






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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Agenda

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• Context



• Policy areas






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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Agenda

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• Context



• Policy areas






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


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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


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Three examples:

• TAIEX REGIO PEER 2 PEER

• Integrity Pacts

• Public Procurement Guidance Note


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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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Peer-to-Peer: who uses it most ?

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Peer-to-Peer: who contributes most ?

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Integrity Pact – pilot project

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Integrity Pact – pilot project

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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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Translations available 23 languages

Public procurement

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Agenda

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• Context



• Policy areas






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


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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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Agenda

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• Context





Agenda

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• Context





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





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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Thank you

SRSS Internet site: http://ec.europa.eu/about/srss/

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