1. Unified rules for EU Funds

2. ESIF EFSI CEF CF ETC FP7 EGTC CPR ERDF MRS TFEU TOs CBA RGP HORIZON CLLD ITI COSME EAFRD EMFF ESF EIB JAP JEREMY JESSICA RGP

3. complementarity and synergy or “one fund fits all?”
Cohesion Policy
EFSI
ESIF
Horizon 2020
CEF

4. Legal framework ESIF Funds EFSI Horizon 2020 CEF
CPR, ERDF, ESF, ETC, EGTC, EAFRD, EMFF
18 implementing and delegated acts
Guidance documents
EFSI
One regulation
Horizon 2020
Two regulations
CEF
One delegated act

5. Planning and programming
Can we mix ESIF and EFSI?
Can we steal HORIZONs easy structure?
If so, how are we fighting disparities?

6. Financial allocation

7. Bottom-up vs. Top-down 2014-2020 new provisions: Funding combination
Thematic objectives
Intervention logic
Performance
Ex-ante conditionalities
Horizon 2020
Multiannual work programmes
CEF
Pre-identified list of projects
Funding combination

8. Budget implementation
State Aid
Different rules
Audit and control
Internal
External
Other independent control bodies
European Court of Auditors
Streamlined monitoring and evaluation
AIRs + evaluations
Shared
Cohesion
Rural
Direct management
Horizon 2020
COSME
Erasmus+
Creative Europe
EaSI
CEF

9. Post 2020 recommendations
Find the main goal and reshape
Proactive
Stable policy
Predictable
Balance result orientation and simplification with audits
Switch focus from correction to prevention
Define common indicators to find the impact
Control the results not the details
Complement, don’t overlap
Less is more
Help hubs

10. Post 2020 recommendations – ETC specifics
Customized and targeted simplification
Single regulation
Focus on principles
List of non-eligible expenditures
State Aid exemption
Guidelines and designation process for AA
Tailored made indicators
E-MS use, SCOs
Measures to prevent errors

11. Iulia Hertzog
Iulia Hertzog