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Background: 2.1 Structural Funds Regulations 2007-2013

The document discusses the background and establishment of the JASPERS initiative. It was created to provide technical assistance to new EU member states in preparing projects for funding under structural funds like the ERDF and Cohesion Fund during their 2007-2013 programming period. The Commission and EIB partnered to create JASPERS due to concerns around the capacity of new member states. It would provide guidance and expertise to help authorities access EU resources. The regulations for structural funds during this period aimed to simplify management while still requiring ex ante approval of major projects over certain cost thresholds. A table provides the total indicative funding amounts for each new member state under the ERDF and Cohesion Fund for 2007-2013.

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Background: 2.1 Structural Funds Regulations 2007-2013

The document discusses the background and establishment of the JASPERS initiative. It was created to provide technical assistance to new EU member states in preparing projects for funding under structural funds like the ERDF and Cohesion Fund during their 2007-2013 programming period. The Commission and EIB partnered to create JASPERS due to concerns around the capacity of new member states. It would provide guidance and expertise to help authorities access EU resources. The regulations for structural funds during this period aimed to simplify management while still requiring ex ante approval of major projects over certain cost thresholds. A table provides the total indicative funding amounts for each new member state under the ERDF and Cohesion Fund for 2007-2013.

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2.

BACKGROUND
During the planning phase prior to the start of the 2007-2013 programming period, it was believed
that the scale of the effort required by the New Member States to submit suitably-prepared projects
for grant funding would present considerable challenges given their relative lack of experience and
capacity. The Commission (DG REGIO) therefore called for more technical assistance to be
provided to the national authorities in order to help them to access and absorb the available EU
resources.
During the previous programming period the Bank had agreed a Cooperation Framework with the
Commission. Under this framework, the EIB had been actively participating for many years with the
provision of occasional expert appraisal advice at the request of the Commission, and it was the
desire of both parties to continue to strengthen that cooperation. Extensive discussions were held in
2005, leading eventually to the establishment of the JASPERS initiative, which would have the task
of animation (progress chasing) and expert advice in order to accompany the authorities in the
Member States, at their request, in the identification and preparation of good quality projects for
support under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF). The
initiative was to be financed by its partners (now also including EBRD and KfW) in cash or in kind
(staff equivalent). The cash contribution would come from the Commission and be financed by the
technical assistance allocation under the ERDF funds. The initiative would be managed by the EIB
under a joint steering committee.

2.1 STRUCTURAL FUNDS REGULATIONS 2007-2013


A General Regulation defines common principles, rules and standards for the implementation of the
three cohesion instruments, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social
Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF). Based on the principle of shared management between
the Union and the Member States and regions, this regulation sets out a renewed programming
process, based on Community Strategic Guidelines for Cohesion and their follow-up, as well as
common standards for financial management, control and evaluation. The reformed delivery system
was intended to provide for a simpler, proportional and more decentralised management of the
Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund than in previous programming periods. Under the new
shared management principle, the burden of justification for the use of funds shifted significantly from
an ex ante to an ex post process. However, the process of confirmation of funding for major projects 7
remained an ex ante case by case appraisal and the JASPERS initiative was intended to facilitate
this process.
The total indicative amounts available to new Member States under ERDF and Cohesion Funds for
2007-2013 are summarised in tabular form below. According to the Regulation, the annual
appropriations allocated to a Member State should be limited to a ceiling fixed with regard to its
capacity for absorption.

Country/Heading Cohesion Fund EURbn ERDF Convergence EURbn Total EURbn


Bulgaria 2.3 3.2 5.5
Cyprus 0.21 0 0.21
Czech Republic 8.8 13.4 22.2
Estonia 1.1 1.9 3.0
Hungary 8.6 11.2 19.8
Latvia 1.5 2.4 3.9
Lithuania 2.3 3.4 5.7
Malta 0.28 0.44 0.72
Poland 22 33 55
Romania 6.5 9 15.5
Slovakia 4 6 10
Slovenia 1.4 1.9 3.3
Technical Assistance 0.87
TOTAL 58.99 86.70 145.69

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Projects whose capital cost exceeded EUR 50m (or EUR 25m in the environment sector)

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