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Verbatim report of proceedings
Wednesday, 15 February 2017 - Strasbourg Revised edition

Investing in jobs and growth - maximising the contribution of European Structural and Investment Funds - Delayed implementation of ESI Funds operational programmes - impact on cohesion policy and the way forward (debate)
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  Lambert van Nistelrooij, rapporteur. – Mr President, thank you for having us here at this timely moment: I see that the Commissioner has just arrived and I especially want to address her.

Mr President, Commissioner Crețu, let us carry out a sort of mid-term balance on how we are performing. How are we performing in this cohesion policy, in the regional policy? I thank the Commission and all the colleagues for all the facts and figures and materials that we got on this Article 16(3) report. There are a lot of positive numbers in terms of growth and jobs. We support 150 000 startups. We have the creation of more than 500 000 jobs. This is substantial, and we also see a real shift from the infrastructure – roads and roads, bridges and bridges – of the last period to a knowledge-driven economy, to applied science, ICT, the green economy and social cohesion.

This renewed policy definitively leads to more local and European added value. We see commitments in the social field, especially for younger people to bring them to a job. The ex-ante conditionalities we have formulated lead to a more integrated policy and a better structured and targeted result. We initiated a package of simplification synergies with other funds and performance-based budgeting. It was something new in this House. The practical reflection and the relation with the European Semester is established. Cohesion concerns three-fourths of the country-specific recommendations, and we made a performance framework as an example, as I said, of this performance-based budgeting.

And on this basis we had studied and debated, I asked the Commission to come with three points of action. First, a cohesion master plan rescheduling the 2014-2020 period on the basis of the approvals of the operational programmes and the consequences for payments in the next years. N+3 has not helped to speed things up, and the austerity on the national level brought serious constraints in the co-financing. We need a new payment plan until 2023. I ask you to include three aspects in this cohesion master plan: taking away the hindrances to the expenditure in the Member States; clarifying the effects of the late start-up in the 2017-2023 period, not having this great backlog of bills in the next years to come; and clarifying the effects of the late start for the next years: N+3 will lead to performance payments in the years until 2023. Does this materially extend the period 2014-2020? Will the experience of 2014-2016 be repeated? Member States were still working to finalise the programmes and came with very late agreed programmes for the new period. Let us learn from these consequences.

I can just mention two other points. In Bratislava, the informal meeting on cohesion had a very positive assessment on how we have changed our methods, but there was also a proposal, an initiative from you, Commissioner, to present another way of communication, to come forward with a new communication plan. On the communication plan, let the European star shine, I mean the projects and those people in it.

My last point is territorial cohesion. I want to underline this smart specialisation approach and the wish of Parliament in my report to come forward with a bigger envelope in the total cohesion amount for this cross-regional and cross-country cooperation.

 
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