SPANISH PRESIDENCY: PRIORITIES IN THE FIELD OF COHESION POLICY

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SPANISH PRESIDENCY PRIORITIES IN THE FIELD OF
COHESION POLICY
Brussels, 12 January SAWP
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• Spanish priorities
• I. Legislative issues
• II. Strategic reporting
• III. Main Events related to Cohesion Policy
• IV. Other events

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I. Legislative issues

• Council Regulation amending General Regulation
  (COMM)1083/2006
• Regulation amending ERDF Regulation (COMM)
  1080/2006
• Spanish Presidency priorities
• To transmit to the EP the importance and need
  of collaborating and working together on this
  dossier from the beginning.
• 3. International Fund for Ireland ? need of
  changing the legal basis
• Spanish Presidency priorities
• To discuss and agree on it, in the framework of
  SAWP (possibly next 15th February).

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• Cohesion Policy issues under the Spanish
  Presidency
• The COMM will publish its Strategic Report,
  based on reports presented by all MS on the
  contribution of EU Funds to the achievement of
  their objectives and functions, as well as to
  priorities of strategic guidelines (according to
  Arts. 29 and 30 of the General Regulation on
  Structural Funds).
• It should be delivered by the 1st of April 2010.
• Spanish Presidency priorities from April 2010
• 1. To elaborate and reach consensus on
  conclusions on the COMM report, at SAWP and at
  COREPER level.
• 2. 14 June, CAG meeting to present the report.

II. Strategic reporting
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• 1. Informal Ministerial Meeting on Regional
  Policy, 19 February, Zaragoza.
• Invitations on the pipeline.
• Draft paper to prepare the discussion at the
  Informal Meeting will be distributed in advance.
• 2. Attaché trip, 17 and 18 June, Madrid.
• 3. Week of Innovative Regions in Europe, (WIRE
  2010) High Level Conference, 15-17 March,
  Granada.

III. Main Events related to Cohesion Policy
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• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Territorial
  Governance, 16 - 18 March, Málaga. (Ministry of
  Territorial Policy)
• General Directors Meeting on Territorial Agenda
  and its Action Plan, 10 and 11 May, Sevilla.
  (Ministry of Environment)
• Forum on Outermost regions, 27 and 28 May,
  Brussels. Organised by the Commission together
  with the Spanish Presidency.
• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Housing and
  Urban development, 21 and 22 June, Toledo.
  (Ministry of Housing)
• Director General Meetings
• - Madrid, 27 April DG Meeting (Housing)
• - Madrid, 28 April DG Meeting (Urban
  Development)

IV. Other Events
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• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Regional Policy
• When 19 February 2010
• COMM has just called for an additional High
  Level Group on the future of Cohesion Policy,
  25th January, Brussels.
• Venue Palacio de Congresos, recinto Expo 2008,
  Zaragoza
• Spanish Presidency invites the Minister 2
  delegates. Possibility for 1 more delegate to
  attend the Informal Meeting.

III. Main Events related to Cohesion Policy
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III. Main Events related to Cohesion Policy

• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Regional Policy
• Main issues to be tackled
• The future of Cohesion Policy
• Territorial Cohesion
• Key messages for the simplification of Cohesion
  Policy for the new programming period.

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• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Regional Policy,
  Draft Agenda
• 18 February Dinner offered by the Spanish
  Presidency.
• 19 February
• Strategy and priorities of the future Cohesion
  Policy
• - Presentation by the COMM of the work done by
  the High Level Group on the future of Cohesion
  Policy
• - Debate and interventions of MS
• 2. New focus on European Territorial Cooperation
  objective
• - Presentation by the CoR
• - Debate and interventions of MS

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• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Regional Policy,
  Draft Agenda
• 3. Economic efficiency and simplification in a
  context of economic crisis
• - Presentation by the COMM
• - Presentation by the EP about the state of play
  of discussions
• - Debate and interventions of MS
• Result of the Informal meeting
• Summary of discussions to be published after the
  meeting

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• Attaché trip
• When? 17 and 18 June
• Where? from Madrid different case-study visits

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3. Week of Innovative Regions in Europe
(WIRE2010), 15-17 March, Granada. High level
conference organised by the Spanish Ministry of
Science and Innovation, together with the
COMM. High level forum for discussion of
stakeholders good practices and ideas on how to
make the best of European, National and Regional
funding for RD and Innovation. Objective to
move from synergies of policies to synergies
of actions for the optimal use of existing EU
instruments in order to make regions full
protagonists in building the knowledge-based
society.

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3. Week of Innovative Regions in Europe
(WIRE2010), 15-17 March, Granada. WIRE 2010 is
the result of merging 3 conferences a)
Conference on the efficient and effective use of
budget earmarked in Structural Funds for RTD and
Innovation, including their synergies with the
7th Framework Programme (FP7), and the
Competitiveness Innovation Programme (CIP). b)
Research potential Conference, focused on the
assessment of results and the identification of
best practices of the Research Potential
Programme (REGPOT) within the FP7 Capacities
programme. c) Regions of knowledge Conference,
which deals with the assessment of the results
and the identification of best practices of
Regions of Knowledge (REGIONS) within the FP7
Capacities programme.

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• 3. Week of Innovative Regions in Europe
  (WIRE2010), 15-17 March, Granada.
• Main topics to be discussed
• Aggregation of good practices found in the
  development of the 2 programmes REGPOT and
  REGIONS within the FP7, as well as in Structural
  Funds.
• - Synergies between the different innovation
  instruments, including those of Structural Funds.
  
• For further information www.micinn.es/wire2010

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• Thank you for your attention.