Position Paper for Germany

Position of the Commission Services on

the development of the Partnership Agreement and Programmes in Germany

for the period 2014-2020

Berlin, 27.11.2012

Introduction: why a Position Paper ?

A. Main challenges and priorities for funding

B. Ex-ante conditionalities

C. Arrangements for effective programming and delivery

D. Territorial Cooperation

E. Next steps

Contents

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Why a position paper?

• Closer alignment with Europe 2020 strategy and Country Specific Recommendations (National Reform Programme)

• Pro-active approach: early stage information on Commission services' position on priorities 2014-20 to Member States

• Commission's view on development needs, challenges and priorities

• Framework for dialogue between Commission services and Member States

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THE COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, EMFF

THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, EMFF

Operational

Programmes for ERDF

Rural development

programmes

(EAFRD)

Operational

Programmes for ESF

EU level

National level

Multifund Operational

Programmes for ERDF,

ESF

Operational

Programmes for

EMFF

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Socio-economic situation

in Germany

• GDP per capita 118 % of the EU-27

• Stable labour market and low unemployment rate (5.5% in 2012)

• Significant differences between and within German regions

• Remaining considerable challenges in East Germany, especially regarding demographic trends, the still existing innovation lag, the low number of entrepreneurs, the lack of private capital and of foreign direct investment.

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Selected Europe 2020

Headline targets for Germany

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Europe 2020 headline targets

Current situation in

Germany

National 2020 target

in the NRP

3 % of EU's GDP to be invested in research

and development 2.82 % (2010) 3 %

20 % of energy from renewables

11 % (2010), DE has

already achieved its

2011/2012 interim

targets

18 %

75 % of population aged 20-64 should be

employed 76.3 % (2011) 77 %

Reducing the number of people in or at risk

of poverty or exclusion by at least 20 million

in the EU (compared with 2008 levels)

19.7% of the

population in 2010,

i.e. 15.9 million

people.

20% reduction in the

number of long-term

unemployed by 2020

compared with 2008

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A. Main challenges for Germany

• Regional competitiveness and demographic change

• Enhance labour market potential, social inclusion and raise educational achievement

• Transformation of the energy system and strengthening sustainable use of natural resources

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Priorities for funding

1. Reducing regional disparities in competitiveness taking account of demographic change

2. Enhance labour market potential, social inclusion and raise educational achievement

3. Supporting transformation of the energy system and strengthening sustainable use of natural resources

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Reducing regional disparities in competitiveness taking account of demographic change (1)

• Increasing R&I investment to address regional disparities in competitiveness

• Enhancing business innovation and competitiveness, including in agriculture and fisheries and improving access to finance for SMEs

• Strengthening entrepreneurial potential

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Funding priority 1

Reducing regional disparities in competitiveness taking account of demographic change (2)

• Ensuring full coverage and equal access to ICT in rural areas

• Diversifying economic activities on the whole rural territory and promoting small infrastructure in sparsely populated areas:

• Strengthen advisory services and training for

cooperation, environmental challenges and

diversification

• Support the set-up of producer groups and cooperation

• Facilitate restructuring of farms and generational

renewal

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Funding priority 1

Enhance labour market potential, social inclusion and raise educational achievement

1. Enhance the employment and income opportunities of long-term unemployed and provide activation and integration measures for people at risk of poverty

2. Promote equal opportunities throughout all stages of the education and training system and increase quality as well as educational outcomes, in particular of disadvantaged young people

3. Address more efficiently shortages of skilled workers

4. Support participation in and increase quality of full-time child-care and all-day schools

5. Strengthen labour market participation of women, older workers and migrants

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Funding priority 2

Some groups are at higher risk of poverty

*This indicator is the headline indicator to monitor the EU2020 strategy poverty target. It reflects the share of the population which is either at risk of poverty (60% of median income),

or severely materially deprived or lives in a household a very low work intensity.

Source: EU-SILC 2011

0 20 40 60 80 100

Single parents

Low-skilled (ISCED 0-2; 18-64)

Migrants non EU/EFTA

Unemployed (18-64)

Total

•People at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)*: vulnerable groups in Germany (2011)

Funding priority 2

1. Enhance the employment and income opportunities of long-term unemployed and provide activation and integration measures for people at risk of poverty

- Support people furthest from the labour market and facilitate integration

- Increase the individualized support for long-term unemployed through life-long learning offers

- Upgrade of basic skills and key competences for disadvantaged people

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Funding priority 2

2. Promote equal opportunities throughout all stages of the education and training system and increase quality as well as educational outcomes, in particular of disadvantaged young people

- Focus on reducing early school leaving of vulnerable groups by targeted support and participation in pre-school education

- Promote smooth transition from school to work through VET

- Increase participation and attainment levels, in particular for those with a migration background by developing new education approaches

- Tackle gender stereotypes in education and training

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Funding priority 2

3. Address more efficiently shortages of skilled workers

5. Strengthen labour market participation of women, older

workers and migrants

- Increase participation in effective lifelong learning measures

- Develop innovative, accessible and elderly-friendly froms of work organization

- Enhance gender equality and facilitate women's reintegration into high quality employment after career breaks due to care duties

- Dismantle structural barriers for older people, persons with disabilities and people with a migration background

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Funding priority 2

…but the potential of older worker remain untapped in the higher age brackets

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EU27 DE SE

55-59 y

60-64y

65-69y

Source: Eurostat data 2011

Funding priority 2

•Gender pay gap in unadjusted form (2010)

High gender segmentation and gender pay gap

Source: Eurostat, no data for Estonia and Greece

Funding priority 2

Germany's gender pay gap: high disparities between West and East…

Source: Destatis

Funding priority 2

Funding priority 2 4. Support participation in and increase quality of full-time child-care and all-day schools - Better qualification of the care personal by international standards - Higher participation rates in care facilities below the age of three, in particular of children from disadvantaged familes and those with a migration background - Development of new concepts for the educational pre-school and school phase - Support more gender – balanced distribution of unpaid care work

…reflecting the availability of childcare facilities

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0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Germany West East

2006

2011

Source: Destatis

Funding priority 2

Germans use childcare facilities twice as much as migrants

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Funding priority 2

Supporting transformation of the energy system and strengthening sustainable use of natural resources • Support for innovation in energy systems, in particular for smart distribution grids

• Increase energy efficiency in public buildings

• Development and implementation of integrated sustainable low-carbon urban, rural and territorial strategies

• Promoting the implementation of measures which improve soil management

• Enhancing risk prevention/management and environment protection

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Funding priority 3

• Innovation in energy systems

• Research and Development

• Pilot projects

• Increase energy efficiency and saving efforts

• Reach climate and renewable energy targets

• Integrated solutions for sustainable energy

communities

Support for innovation in energy systems and increase energy efficiency in public buildings

Funding priority 3

• Promote low-carbon strategies for urban and

rural areas and decentralised energy concepts

• Reduce Greenhouse gas emmissions from

agriculture

• Focus on economically and ecologically

sustainable (water quality, biodiversity, soil)

production of renewable energy

Development and implementation of an integrated sustainable low-carbon strategies

Funding priority 3

Promote soil management and support risk prevention and -management

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• Improve soil management

Support measures which prevent soil degradation

Soil carbon stock

• Reinforce risk prevention and -management

Improve flood prevention

Support forest fire prevention

and forest restoration

• Protect biodiversity, soil and water

Environmentally sound farming and forestry systems

Targeted agri-environmental-climate measures

• Sustainable management of

Natura 2000 areas

High nature value farmland

Enhance environment protection and promote resource efficiency

Supporting sustainable fisheries

• Implement the reformed Common Fisheries Policy and develop sustainable fishing communities

• Enhance competitiveness of businesses in the fish processing and aquaculture sectors

• Support deployment of low carbon technologies and increase energy efficiency of fishing ports, aquaculture and fish processing

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Integrated Maritime Policy and Blue Growth

• Harness growth in Germany's blue economy, in line with the Guidelines for the German Maritime Policy until 2020

• Adapt to new challenges in marine sectors: coastal tourism, maritime transport, aquaculture, even shipbuilding and repair

• "New" sectors: blue energy, biotechnology, marine minerals

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B. Ex-ante conditionalities

• Develop regional R&I strategies for smart specialisation and ensure effective coordination and cooperation between the regions in the development and implementation phase

• Develop and implement a national strategy for poverty reduction

• Define appropriate and congruent selection criteria for the implementation of the rural development policy

• Adopt a multiannual national strategic plan for aquaculture, improve data collection (shift to shared management) and implement a Union control, inspection and enforcement system

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• Identification of optimal level

• Build on the positive 2007-13 achievements

• Where relevant, the CSF Funds should exploit potential for synergies with the other EU instruments

• Coordination between policies and complementarity of interventions is the key condition for successful implementation of CSF Funds.

• Integrated approach for territorial development

C. Arrangements for effective programming and delivery

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D. European Territorial Cooperation

• Germany highly connected to its neighbours

• Programming based on experience

• Clear understanding of border regions challenges

• Better link between ETC/Competitiveness programmes (sectoral/national/regional programmes and policies)

• Baltic Sea Region and Danube Region strategies

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E. Next steps

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PA and OPS/RDPs

adoption

by EC

Second

semester

2013

Beginning

of the official

negotiations

between EC

and

Germany

November

2012

Kick-off

meeting

in Germany

From November

2012 until

submission

PA by MS

Informal

dialogue

between EC

and

Germany

on PA and Ops/RDPs

End of first

semester

2013

As from

second

semester

2013

Submission

PA and Ops/RDPs

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• Thank you!

• Vielen Dank!

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