1. Cohesion & Structural Funds 2007-2013 Categorisation
Eddy Hartog & Juan Lopez Jover

2. Context Information is a complement to decentralisation
It is important to prepare administrations in time
There is a debate going on in the Council
Today is a technical debate: political decisions will be made in the Council

3. Classification of areas of intervention 2000-2006
Legislative basis
Commission Regulation (EC) 438/2001 (Annex IV)
Tasks
Ex ante estimation at measure level
Ex post information at the time of payments
Ex post information at measure level

4. Programme complement 2000-2006

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8. Programming
Page 2

9. Programming To apply the appropriate code to each measure
Member States have to choose between :
- 4 first level codes
20 second level codes
87 third level codes
from the list of areas of interventions,
and eventually allocate percentages to each measure for different areas of intervention.

10. Data entry
Page 1

11. Data entry
Page 2

12. Annual report

13. Year 2003
Page 1
Year : 2004
Year 2004

14. Year 2003
Page 2
Year : 2004
Year 2004

15. Year 2003
Page 3
Year : 2004
Year 2004

16. Period
Page 1

17. Period
Page 2

18. Period
Page 3

19. Classification of areas of intervention 2007-2013
Legislative basis
Council Regulation (Articles 36 (1)(d) and 66(2)(d)) Commission Regulation (Article 11 and Annex II)
Tasks: electronic transmission of
Ex ante estimation of 3 dimensions at programme level
Ex post information at programme level

20. Programme

21. Programme
Page 1

22. Programme
Page 2

23. Programme
Page 3

24. Programme

25. Data entry 2007-2013 You already collect the following information:
Regional code NUTS (field 8) Dimension 5:
Date of the decision (field 13 of control requirements)
Normally you also know:
Type of support Dimension 2
Priority theme Dimension 1
We ask you to add:
Nature of the location Dimension 3
Economic sector of activity Dimension 4

26. Combinaison des codes des dimensions 1 à 5
Data entry
As a consequence each project/group of projects/measure has a bar code:
Combinaison des codes des dimensions 1 à 5
Code *
Dimension 1
Thème prioritaire
Dimension 2
Forme de financement
Dimension 3
Territoire
Dimension 4
Activité économique
Dimension 5
Localisation
Montant ** 62 01 00
ES62
40.920

27. Data to be transmitted electronically
Annual report
Computer query (no paper needed):
For all projects that have a date in field 13 …..
…. Add up the amounts (i.e. total eligible public cost multiplied by the SF co-financing rate for the priority) ….
….For each of the combination of codes that a project/group of projects/measure may have.
Data to be transmitted electronically

28. Annual report

29. Elements of simplification
Programme level
No information at payment
No mixed dimensions (type of support and priority theme)
No paper reporting for the annual report

30. Changes compared to earlier versions
From seven to five dimensions
Ex-ante information for three dimensions only (in stead of seven)
Clarification of the thematic dimension
Simplification of the 'form of financing dimension'

31. Thank you for your attention
Seminar on data exchange SFC2007 in January next year