COMPARATIVE REGIONAL POLICY IMPACT ANALYSIS: EX POST EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND*

- The article describes the different stages which marked the elaboration of the EEC regional policy starting from the preliminary studies in the Sixties to the formal inclusion of this domain in the Single European Act (1986). The creation of the European Regional Development Fund (1975) and its reforms are crucial events in the definition of the EEC regional policy which highlight the slow and difficult passage from a system redistributing money among Member States to the launch of new form of supranational territorial solidarity. The ERDF, that was initially linked to the need to rearrange the financial benefits of membership/accession to the EEC for some members States (in particular, Italy and Great Britain), was later rearranged in order to allow more autonomous policy choices at the Community level (Community programmes). The Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, adopted in the Eighties, are the symbol of this new approach because they linked EEC regional measures to common problems arising from economic integration and increased the coordinating functions of the Commission.Parole chiave: Politica regionale della CEE, Commissione europea, Economie regionali, FESR, Programmi comunitari, PIM EEC Regional Policy; European Commission, Regional Economies, European Regional Development Fund, Community Programmes, Integrated Mediterranean Programmes

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The 2014–2020 European Regional Development Fund Indicators: The Incomplete Evolution

Social Indicators Research ◽

10.1007/s11205-017-1610-8 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 137 (2) ◽

pp. 559-577 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Daniel Nigohosyan ◽

Albena Vutsova

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Development Fund ◽

European Regional Development Fund ◽

European Regional

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The European Economic Community's regional policy during the ‘age of disorder'. From ‘harmonious development' to market-oriented policies (1972-1987)

ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA ◽

10.3280/icyearbook-oa12265 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 127-154

Author(s):

Antonio Bonatesta

Keyword(s):

Regional Policy ◽

Demand Side ◽

Public Intervention ◽

Development Fund ◽

European Economic ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

European Regional Development Fund ◽

Single European Act ◽

European Regional

This article examines the transformation of the European Economic Community's (EEC) regional policy paradigms from the early 1970s, when negotiations for the creation of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) began, until the approval of the Single European Act. The article identifies this period as the beginning of a deep transition from demand-side "interventionist" and "neo-mercantilist" models — typical of certain regional policies used up to that time by member states (primarily by Italy) — towards more openly neoliberal models. My analysis of the harsh conflicts within the Regional Policy Committee (the national technocracies' representative body in charge of managing the ERDF) and between the committee and the European Commission demonstrate that this outcome was not at all taken for granted. It was determined, above all, by the overload of objectives of EEC regional policy in a context of scarce resources, and by the progressive lack of trust in the role of public intervention.

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Article 178 TFEU

The EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198759393.003.292 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Leo Flynn

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

European Parliament ◽

Development Fund ◽

European Regional Development Fund ◽

Legislative Procedure ◽

Ordinary Legislative Procedure ◽

Committee Of The Regions ◽

European Regional

Article 162 EC Implementing regulations relating to the European Regional Development Fund shall be taken by the European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and after consulting the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.

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