EU Budget Austria 2014-2020 update november 2014

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Administration

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Security & Citizenship

€ 199.828

€ 959.988in current prices: € 1.082.555

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The five European Structural and Investment Funds;

| The European Regional Development Fund

| The European Social Fund

| The Cohesion Fund

| The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

| The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

ESI FUNDSTHE 5

| EU Member States are required to draw up and implement

strategic plans with investment priorities covering the five ESI

Funds.

| These Partnership Agreements (PAs) are negotiated between the

European Commission and national authorities, following their

consultation of various levels of governance, representatives from

interest groups, civil society and local

and regional representatives.

AGREEMENTSPARTNERSHIP

| The designated areas, a list of regions with 2,186,465 inhabitants,

cover 25.87% of Austria's population.

| Austria has proposed its assisted areas across the country on the

basis of a wide range of criteria, including those that reflect the

socioeconomic situation (i.e. GDP per capita, below EU average or

high unemployment compared to national average), the

geographical situation (e.g. mountain areas) or structural problems

at national level.

AID PERCENTAGESMAXIMUM

| The maximum level of aid that can be granted to investment projects carried out by large companies is 10%. For investments carried out by SMEs, these percentages can be increased by up to 10 percentage points for medium-sized enterprises and 20 percentage points for small enterprises.

| While the population coverage has increased by around 3.4 percentage points compared to the previous aid map, the aid intensities have slightly decreased. This is in line with the objectives of the new regional aid guidelines, which aim at focusing support on the most disadvantaged regions of Europe.

AID PERCENTAGESMAXIMUM

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Countries have

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adopted:21 OP >Denmark

1 OP >Lithuania

| Partnership Agreement Adopted 17 – 10 – 2014

| 1 Operational Programmme submitted

| Adoption of OP’s by European commission in Q4 2014

| Exp.1st grant calls Q1 2015 for funding priorities related to OP’s

OPs should be submitted by Member States within 3 months following the

submission of the Partnership Agreement.

The Commission makes observations within 3 months and adopts the OP

no later than 6 months from the date of its submission.

PLANNING

The PA focusses in particular on the following thematic objectives:

| Preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource

efficiency (26% of ESI-Funds, EAFRD and ERDF)

| Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management

(26% of ESI-Funds, exclusively EAFRD)

| Enhancing innovation and the competiveness of SMEs and of the

agricultural sector (16.5% of ESI-Funds, EAFRD and ERDF)

| Promoting social inclusion, combating poverty and any discrimination

(11% of ESI-Funds, in particular from the EAFRD and the ESF).

PRIORITIESFUNDING

Other thematic objectives will be supported by the ERDF and the ESF,

while the EMFF allocation of EUR 7 million will be focussed on

investments that should increase the competiveness of the aquaculture

sector.

As the EAFRD contributes to 80% of total ESI-Funds in Austria, the relative

weight of the fund and of the thematic objectives under which the EAFRD

operates is high.

PRIORITIESFUNDING

ESI-Funds will support Austria in achieving its targets:

| RTDI expenditure in relation to GDP is to increase from 2.84 (2012) to

3.76% (2020) with a focus on private spending.

| ESI-Funds will contribute to a CO² reduction (from -12.7% in 2012 to -

16% in 2020) and to improved energy efficiency and lower energy

consumption (-7.16 million tons by 2020).

| ESI-Funds are to help to increase the employment rate (to 77-78%),

reduce the early school leaving rate (to 9,5%) and to reduce the number of

people at risk of poverty or exclusion by 235,000 persons by 2020.

RESULTSEXPECTED

| Austria will receive 4,923 million EUR from ESI-Funds and 257 million

EUR for European Territorial Cooperation.

| 26.8 million EUR (5% of the ERDF allocation) will be invested in

integrated sustainable urban development actions mainly to be

implemented in Vienna. A small share of ERDF will be reserved for CLLD

in Tirol.

| An amount of 1,595 million EUR (32.4% of the total ESIF allocation) will

be invested to support climate related investments, which exceeds the

required 20% share.

ALLOCATIONSFINANCIAL

For the ERDF, indicative regional allocations to each of the

Bundesländer have been determined by Austria, while for the

EAFRD, ESF and EMFF, the respective allocations are in principle

Austrian-wide without a pre-determined regional allocation, with the

exception however for the transitional region Burgenland and for

the ESF investment priority on social inclusion.

ALLOCATIONSFINANCIAL

Cohesion policy will be delivered by four operational programmes (OPs),

one for each fund. As compared to 2007-2013, a reduction from nine to

one ERDF programme, and from two to one ESF programme, has been

achieved. The EAFRD and the EMFF contributions will be delivered by one

national programme as before.

Following the reduction of the number of ERDF programmes, which takes

place in the framework of the Austrian ERDF Reform Agenda, the number

of managing authorities will diminish by eight, as there will be no regional

programmes (one for each Bundesland) any more.

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