christina skantze. baltic sea strategy initiative – why? new political context for cooperation –...
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Christina Skantze
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Baltic Sea Strategy initiative – why?
• New political context for cooperation – EU-enlargement, integration
• Underline priorities and pressure to deliver• More strategic use of EU-funding• Urgent state of the Baltic sea• Unused potential for growth• EU policy development to take territorial
differences into account – Lisbon treaty, Territorial green paper, Territorial Agenda
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Baltic Sea Strategy – what?
Commission Communication on 10 June*Strategy identifying 4 objectives*Action Plan identifying around 80 projects- rolling and updated regularly
• Ministerial Conference and Joint Declaration 18 Sept• General Affairs conclusions on 26 Oct.• European Council adoption 29-30 Oct.
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Baltic Sea Strategy – how?
Existing EU-funding, existing organisations
An EU governance structure for delivery:
• General Affairs Council responsible
• Commission to facilitate, monitor, update, evaluate, report
• High level group
• Coordinators for 15 Priority Areas of Action Plan
• Lead Partners for flagship projects
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Baltic Sea Strategy – how?
• Aligned EU-funding – EU-programs in the BSR contribute to the realisation of the Strategy
• The European Investment Bank and other international and regional financial institution could also contribute
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EU
Macro regionallevel
Member states
Regional level• Regional Development Plans• Structural Funds Program
• Lisabon Agenda
• Community Strategic Guidelines (Structural Funds)
• Macro regional strategies- EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy
• National Strategic Reference Framework(Structural Funds)
A new level in policy implementationi.a. cohesion policy
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“A pro-active response”
• Action Plan projects identified as most important for the BSR – pre-selection
• BSR Program to identify most suitable projects (flagships) to support (environ., innovation)*work with them (strategic project-model)*Outside regular selection (change progr.docs)
• Add Strategy contribution to selection criteria• Secure alignment of funding• Actively contributing with analyses of what projects
are needed to rolling action plan• Systematic info sharing among Interreg-programs
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“Baltic Sea Region” trans-national cooperation programme 2007-2013
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Why is the interregional component art 37.6b useful?
• Bilateral (trilateral) co-operation• Parallell projects• Common themes identified in participating
Operational Programmes
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How can the ’interregional’ componentbe used?• Managing Athorities to play a major role
• Facilitate preparation of interregional co-operation projects for the beneficiaries
• Concentrate on themes common to financing OPs
• Few MAs to be involved only 2-3 from at least 2 countries
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To be noted!
• Interregional co-operation can occur even if the Operational programmes do not mention it explicitly as long as the projects fit in within its priorities
• 4 Member States in the Baltic Sea Region have the ’interregional’ component in their Operational Programmes (ie. 21 programmes)
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MAs discussions in Sweden• Difficult to see and understand the added value
with this article as we can already co-operate interregionally
• There is a need for guidelines from the Commission
• How to find partners abroad
• Which costs can be financed
• For the time being there is 1project using art 37.6b
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Conclusions
• Art 37.6b exists and can be useful
• We cannot wait for guidelines from the Commission
• We have to be creative and find solutions and then ask the Commission
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