1. Making it happen Delivering Cohesion Policy 2007-2013
“State of play of negotiations and first assessment on the basis of the NSRFs and Ops received”
Prof. Dr. Danuta Hübner
Commissioner for Regional Policy
Press Conference, 2 April 2007, Brussels

2. State of play of negotiations
All National Strategic Reference Frameworks (NSRF) delivered by Member States by 5 March 2007
These contain information about the national strategy, objectives to be achieved, the number of Operational Programmes, the allocations to the ERDF, ESF and Cohesion Fund and the delivery systems
By 2 April, 311 Operational Programmes out of a total of 444 have been delivered. These account for 90% of the total budget

3. 311 out of a total of 444 Operational Programmes delivered accounting for 90% of the total budget
Total budget for Cohesion policy under the Financial perspectives
Budget covered by programmes transmitted to Commission

4. Cohesion policy contributes to finance growth-enhancing investments…

5. …in particular those closely related to the Lisbon agenda …
An increase of more than 50 billion compared to the previous programming period

6. … with a specific effort on R&D and innovation related expenditure both in absolute terms

7. … and relative terms.

8. JEREMIE financial engineering as an integral part of the delivery of European cohesion policy
3 MS (Slovakia, Greece and Romania) and 4 regions (Guadeloupe and Auvergne (France), Galicia (Spain), Lombardia (Italy) signed MoU with EIF (in view of assigning it with the JEREMIE holding fund tasks).
A minimum of 2 billion will be managed by the EIF.
In all, 21 out of 27 MS have shown positive interest in JEREMIE.