Cohesion Policy 2007 13 Reporting on Categorisation European

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Reporting on Categorisation European Commission seminar for managing and certifying authorities Brussels, 9 June 2009 Mathieu Fichter DG REGIO – D 2 Brussels, 9 June 2009 1

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Content • • • Purpose of the categorisation exercise The 5 reporting dimensions The ‘operations selected’ The timing The data transfer Categorisation in the AIR Brussels, 9 June 2009 2

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Purpose of categorisation • Report on how EU tax payer’s money contributes to Cohesion Policy • Inform budgetary authorities, civil society and citizens • Useful data for the MS, regions, monitoring committees, stakeholders. Brussels, 9 June 2009 3

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Purpose of categorisation • Report on how EU tax payer’s money contributes to Cohesion Policy • Inform budgetary authorities, civil society and citizens • Useful data for the MS and regions Brussels, 9 June 2009 4

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 The 5 dimensions (I) • Priority themes: – Entry point of the reporting – Covers a variety of measures or a more specific one • Type of financing – Nature of the funding (4 possibilities) Brussels, 9 June 2009 5

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 The 5 dimensions (II) • Territory: – Type of zone in which investment is made – Make a choice: assess if project is predominantly rural or urban for instance – Split an operation pro rata between 2 or more codes • Economic activity: – Different from priority theme – To be linked to the end use of the investment Brussels, 9 June 2009 6

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 The 5 dimensions (III) • Localisation – Indicate the code of the NUTS area where the investment takes place – Provide the most detailed level – If more than one NUTS region: provide common denominator at lowest possible level • Amount: – Cumulative basis – In €, EU funding for the operations selected – Euro value of commitment made in national currency (use of 1 exchange rate for all programmes) Brussels, 9 June 2009 7

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Use of category codes - 1 • State aid schemes (or venture capital schemes) with multiple beneficiaries can be coded as follows BAR code Theme Form Territory Economic Activity 8 1 (or 3) 01 (or 00) 6 Other investment in firms Non repayable (or VCF) Urban (or NA) Unspecified manufacturing NUTS MS or NUTS II Brussels, 9 June 2009 8

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Use of category codes - 2 • 3 waste water projects, with EU allocations of 5 Mio € each, would represent only one combination => only one cumulative amount. BAR code Theme Form Territory Economic Activity NUTS 46 01 01 21 PL 127 Water Treatment Non repayable Urban Activities linked to Env. Warsaw Brussels, 9 June 2009 9

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 The ‘operations selected’ • Use a common national definition of this concept • For EC it is operations selected by MAs or delegated intermediate bodies • Implies a decision to grant – that decision can take different forms Brussels, 9 June 2009 10

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 The timing • On-going data collection on individual projects (operation), encoded electronically • Reporting (electronic form) at the moment of the submission of the annual and final reports Brussels, 9 June 2009 11

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 The data transfer • Data (allocation by combination of dimensions) to be transmitted only in electronic form – No manual encoding of data into SFC 2007 – Uploading of excel sheet as an attachment in SFC 2007 will be mandatory – Develop a ‘web-service’ based data transfer linked with SFC 2007 Brussels, 9 June 2009 12

Cohesion Policy 2007 - 13 Categorisation in the AIR • MA present summary table on the funding to the monitoring committee for approval • No paper version of the report to be sent to the EC • EC will make aggregate data available on EU or national level Brussels, 9 June 2009 13