Article 175 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policies ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
European Investment ◽  
European Regional

Article 159 EC Member States shall conduct their economic policies and shall coordinate them in such a way as, in addition, to attain the objectives set out in Article 174. The formulation and implementation of the Union’s policies and actions and the implementation of the internal market shall take into account the objectives set out in Article 174 and shall contribute to their achievement. The Union shall also support the achievement of these objectives by the action it takes through the Structural Funds (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guidance Section; European Social Fund; European Regional Development Fund), the European Investment Bank and the other existing Financial Instruments.

scholarly journals Finansowanie ochrony zdrowia z funduszy strukturalnych Unii Europejskiej

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Bromber
Keyword(s):  
Health Protection ◽  
General Description ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Financial Perspective ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
External Sources ◽  
The Subject

Accepting the argument that the financial means dedicated to health protection are limited, the author of the paper emphasizes the need to use external sources of financing, in this case European Union structural funds. This paper attempts to answer the question of to what extent the sources from the European Regional Development Fund, and the European Social Fund, have influenced, or can influence the improved efficiency of the health protection system in Poland. The paper begins with the fundamental notions of health protection, the levels and forms of the delivery of health services, the subject range of the system (including the catalogue of beneficiaries), and the sources of finance. The most important (in the author’s opinion) current problems related to the organization and financing of health protection are also mentioned. Next, a general description of selected operating programs is presented with the examples of health protection projects financed from the structural funds that have already been implemented. The opportunities to fund these types of projects under the present financial perspective are also indicated. The subject matter of a detailed analysis presented in the paper concerns the Lubuskie province.

Coordination of Policy in the EEC

1974 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Margaret J. Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
Common Market ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
The Common ◽  
European Investment

The most notable and best publicised achievements of the European Economic Community (EEC) have been in liberalising trade between its member countries. But apart from setting up the ‘common market’ from which it derives its popular name, the Treaty of Rome gave the Community the duty ‘to promote …. an harmonious development of economic activities, a continuous and balanced expansion, an increase in stability, an accelerated raising of the standard of living and closer relations between the Member States belonging to it’. In addition to the elimination of barriers to the passage of goods between members and the establishment of a common agricultural policy and a common basis of trade with the outside world, the Treaty provided specifically for freedom of movement for persons, services and capital, a common transport policy, a system ensuring that competition should not be distorted, procedures for coordinating economic policies and remedying balance of payments disequilibria, the approximation of laws to the extent required for proper functioning of the common market, and a European Social Fund and European Investment Bank.

scholarly journals The Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Implementation of Infrastructural Investments within the Regional Operational Programme for the Podkarpackie Province for the years 2007-2013

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Wojciech Lichota
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
Leisure Facilities ◽  
Learning Schools ◽  
European Regional

This article aims to assess the effects of the implementation of infrastructural investments within the Regional Operational Programme for the Podkarpackie Province for the years 2007-2013. The article was prepared based on the examination method of documents that included the Regional Operational Programme for the Podkarpackie Province for the years 2007-2013, the Annual Report (for 2014) and Periodical Report (for the second half of 2015) on the implementation of the Programme, Monitor Regionalny, The report – the situation at the end of July 2015. The conducted analysis shows that most assumed material project indicators, i.e. output and result indicators, were achieved. As a result of the implementation of the Programme 924 km of regional roads were modernized, 76 km of regional roads were built, 107 units of municipal transport fleet were purchased and modernized, a 58 km broadband network was built, 13 406 entities have gained access to the broadband Internet, 157 units of fire engines were purchased within the projects in the field of the protection against forest fires and other threats, 190 369 persons were connected to the water supply network, 78 343 persons were connected to the sewage system, 59 educational facilities were modernized, 20 lifelong learning schools were supported, 26 health care centres were modernized, 19 social welfare institutions were modernized, and 40 sports and leisure facilities were built. It is worth noting that by the end of July 2015, projects using all available allocation of funds were contracted and the beneficiaries of the Programme were paid more than 94% of the funds within the available allocation, which puts the Podkarpackie Province on the third place on the background of the country. Keywords: EU funds, European funds, structural funds, regional programmes, the European Regional Development Fund, Podkarpackie Province.

Stichting Greenpeace and Environmental Public Interest Standing before the Community Judicature: Some lessons from the Federal Court of Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 269-306
Author(s):  
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray
Keyword(s):  
Federal Court ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
Locus Standi ◽  
European Court ◽  
Court Of First Instance ◽  
European Regional

On April 2,1998, three years after the ruling of the Court of First Instance, the European Court of Justice issued its appeal decision in the Stichting Greenpeace case. The Court of First Instance had denied locus standi under Article 230(4) (Article 173(4)) of the EC Treaty to Greenpeace, two local environmental groups and a series of individual applicants to challenge the decision of the European Commission to continue providing Community structural funds under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to Spain to build two power stations in the Canary Islands.

Delivering strategic economic development in a time of urban austerity: European Union structural funds and the English city regions

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Nurse ◽  
Matthew Fulton
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Level Structure ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
European Regional

Supranational funding such as that from the European Union has become a key ingredient of the economic development of many major cities. Set across comparatively short time frames, these schemes are constantly evaluated and realigned to reflect current priorities, becoming increasingly competitive as cities deploy every strategy available to mitigate the effects of urban austerity. In the United Kingdom, European Union funding is currently allocated through a multi-level structure involving the state, subregional structures and cities, all conforming to supranational (i.e. European Union) guidelines. Considering this, this paper explores the extent to which funds such as the European Regional Development Fund can be effectively drawn down to focus upon issues deemed to be locally important. The paper achieves this through a case study of policy making in Liverpool, United Kingdom which, having successfully used Objective One funding to support an economic recovery in the 1990–00s, is now fully engaged with European Regional Development Fund agendas. In doing so, the paper explores how successful European Regional Development Fund-funded schemes are developed, drawing out the experiences of key stakeholders working at each level of the funding process. This allows for a reflection on the effects of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and, moreover, makes a series of policy recommendations as to how future funding strategies might be improved.

scholarly journals Cohesion policy after Brexit: the economic, social and institutional challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN BACHTLER ◽  
IAIN BEGG
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Institutional Challenges

AbstractSince 1988, when the current EU Cohesion Policy was introduced, it has played an influential role in setting priorities for policies aimed at dealing with the effects of European economic integration on regional and social disparities. Although, latterly, the amount of money spent in the UK through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) has declined, EU programmes have had a disproportionate effect on the design and implementation of UK policies shaping regional and local economic and social development. This paper starts by recalling how EU Cohesion Policy has functioned in the UK, then considers how Brexit may affect regional and social development and the need for a corresponding policy response, focusing on the sorts of policies currently supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF). The paper shows that filling the policy vacuum will be far from straightforward because complementary national policies and institutional frameworks have lacked consistency or coherence. It concludes by examining the wider policy issues arising from rethinking domestic policy outside the ESIF framework. The sub-national level, in particular, will need a fresh approach following Brexit.

13 Stichting Greenpeace and Environmental Public Interest Standing before the Community Judicature: Some lessons from the Federal Court of Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 269-306
Author(s):  
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray
Keyword(s):  
Federal Court ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
Locus Standi ◽  
European Court ◽  
Court Of First Instance ◽  
European Regional

On April 2,1998, three years after the ruling of the Court of First Instance, the European Court of Justice issued its appeal decision in the Stichting Greenpeace case. The Court of First Instance had denied locus standi under Article 230(4) (Article 173(4)) of the EC Treaty to Greenpeace, two local environmental groups and a series of individual applicants to challenge the decision of the European Commission to continue providing Community structural funds under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to Spain to build two power stations in the Canary Islands.

scholarly journals A Clash between the Business and Political Climates in Sweden – Gender in the European Structural Fund Partnerships

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Hedfeldt ◽  
Gun Hedlund
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Structural Fund ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional ◽  
Gain Access ◽  
The Eu

In this paper we highlight and discuss a Swedish equality paradox in two different spheres: entrepreneurship and politics. We focus on the EU Structural Funds and women entrepreneurs' access to resources through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Combining human geography and political science, we draw upon network and partnership theory posing questions concerning the room for manoeuvre for women entrepreneurs to gain access to relevant networks, to create new networks in order to establish relations with EU related partnerships, and to gain access to the process of allocating EU structural fund financial resources.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of EU Regional Policy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Finland

REGION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ville Vehkasalo
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Postal Code ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Postal Code Area ◽  
European Regional ◽  
The Eu

European Union regional policy is implemented through structural funds, such as the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which support investment in peripheral regions of the EU. We studied the effects of EU regional policy on key economic variables using a rare natural experiment setting. In 2007, parts of regions that were previously covered by the ERDF programme for Western Finland were reallocated to the ERDF programme for Northern Finland, with higher support intensity per capita. This area reallocation was caused by the newly adopted EU legislation regulating the classification of regional statistical areas. With a detailed postal code area dataset and a difference-in-differences estimator, we discovered desirable regional policy effects on unemployment and the number of jobs.

scholarly journals Assessment of changes in the level of human capital in Poland in the context of the use of European funds for projects in the field of science and education contracted for implementation in 2004–2006

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Sikora-Gaca ◽  
Urszula Kosowska
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
Regional Leaders ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact

The article presents the analysis of 2,947 projects in the area of science and education co-financed by the Structural Funds in Poland in 2004–2006. It summarizes the investments co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. Data on 2,947 projects, with their regional division, have been verified. Thanks to this regional leaders have been distinguished in terms of the number of projects and raised funds in 2004–2006. Most importantly, the amount of the subsidy from the EU to projects in the area of science and education in Poland in the years 2004–2006 has been estimated per capita of individual region. These data were compared with the selected human capital development indicators in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012 to assess the impact of European funding in the field of science and education on human capital in Poland.

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