Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA) Revised multi-annual indicative financial framework for 2011-2013

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COUNCIL OF Brussels, 12 November 2010 (15.11)

(OR. fr) THE EUROPEAN UNION

16293/10

ELARG 83 PESC 1453 RELEX 967 FIN 570 CADREFIN 63 COWEB 289 COVER NOTE from:

Secretary-General of the European Commission, signed by Mr Jordi AYET PUIGARNAU, Director

date of receipt: 11 November 2010 to: Mr Pierre de BOISSIEU, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

Subject: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA)

Revised multi-annual indicative financial framework for 2011-2013

Delegations will find attached Commission document COM(2010) 640 final.

Encl.: COM(2010) 640 final EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 10.11.2010 COM(2010) 640 final COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL INSTRUMENT FOR PRE-ACCESSION ASSISTANCE (IPA) REVISED MULTI-ANNUAL INDICATIVE FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK FOR 2011-2013 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL INSTRUMENT FOR PRE-ACCESSION ASSISTANCE (IPA) REVISED MULTI-ANNUAL INDICATIVE FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK FOR 2011-2013

Introduction

The Multi-Annual Indicative Financial Framework (MIFF) for the Instrument of Pre- Accession Assistance (IPA) is designed to provide information on the indicative breakdown of the overall IPA envelope proposed by the Commission in accordance with Article 5 of the IPA Regulation (EC) 1085/2006. It acts as the link between the political framework within the enlargement package and the budgetary process. The Multi-Annual Indicative Planning Documents (MIPD) established for each beneficiary country and for the multi-beneficiary programme, through which pre-accession aid is delivered, take into account the indicative breakdown proposed in the MIFF. For the first time for 2011-2013 there will also be a separate MIPD for cross-border cooperation.

The MIFF is based on a rolling three-year programming cycle. Under normal circumstances, a MIFF for years N, N+1 and N+2 will be presented in the last quarter of year N-2 as part of the enlargement package, representing a proposed financial translation of the political priorities set out within the package itself, taking into consideration the Financial Framework. As 2013 represents the last budgetary year of IPA, this MIFF covers the same years as the previous MIFF, i.e. 2011-2013. It indicates the allocation of the envelope for pre-accession assistance by country and by component for these years, and also gives an indication of the multi- beneficiary programme envelope and support expenditure.

As in previous years, the MIFF is published based on the current status of the countries concerned and so does not at this stage pre-empt any decision by the Council on the Opinions presented with the enlargement package or a likely date of accession for any candidate country. It does for the first time include Iceland as a beneficiary country. If any significant amendments to this MIFF are needed before the next annual publication of the MIFF in autumn 2011, the Commission will publish an amended version at the appropriate time. Once a candidate country accedes to the EU, any pre-accession funds provisionally allocated to that country from the year of accession onwards will no longer be available for this new Member State.

The overall political priorities for pre-accession are set out in the Accession and European Partnerships, the annual progress reports and the enlargement strategy paper contained in the enlargement package presented to the European Parliament and the Council each year.

Strategic Financial Programming

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    Allocation of funds between countries The starting point for allocations in 2007 was a commitment by the Commission to ensure that no beneficiary country would receive less in 2007 than they did in 2006 and furthermore that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania should receive no less than the annual average of the funding each received between 2004 and 2006. This latter point reflected the fact that the funding for these countries was frontloaded in 2004.

The figures for 2008 onwards have been calculated on the basis of per-capita allocations which have been quoted in the past as a proxy for needs and impact. Against this measure, the per capita levels for each of the potential candidates of the Western Balkans increase during the course of the current financial framework to above the 2004-2006 per-capita average of 23 (in 2004 prices) received under CARDS. For Montenegro, the per capita levels of funding are higher than for other potential candidate countries, reflecting a minimum level of funding needed for adequate administrations, irrespective of the size of the country. The global breakdown of funds between countries has been respected with the exception of Kosovo which received increased IPA funding. In 2008, 60 million were granted by the budget authority as part of a wider mobilisation of new funds to support the stability and development of Kosovo. This was supplemented by a transfer of a further 60 million from unused macro-financial assistance (MFA) appropriations. In 2009, an additional 40 million was committed as a follow up of the Donor's conference which took place in July 2008.

For Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as candidate countries, a level of over 30 per capita (in 2004 prices) is allocated. This level is maintained across the period for Croatia. For the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the funding in per capita terms continues to increase, reflecting a minimum level of funding needed for building adequate administrations, irrespective of the size of the country.

For Turkey, taking into account the size and absorption capacity of the country, there is a gradual increase in per-capita levels of assistance over the period 2007-2013.

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    Allocations between components IPA is delivered through the following five components: I Transition and Institution Building; II Cross-border cooperation; III Regional Development; IV Human Resources Development; and V Rural Development.

Component I, Transition Assistance and Institution Building, covers all institution building actions and the investments related to the acquis communautaire; it helps beneficiary countries build up administrative and judicial capacity and addresses, according to priority, cooperation measures not expressly covered by other components.

Component II, Cross-Border Cooperation, supports cross-border activities among beneficiary countries and between beneficiary countries and Member States; it also covers the participation of IPA beneficiaries in ERDF trans-national and interregional co operation programmes and in ENPI sea basins programmes, as appropriate.

Components III and IV are accessible to candidate countries and aim to prepare these countries for the programming, implementation and management of Structural and Cohesion Funds upon accession by approximating, to the greatest extent possible under External Aid rules, the implementation methods of these funds. Specifically, component III, Regional Development, emulates to the greatest extent possible the ERDF and Cohesion Fund.

Component IV, Human Resources Development prepares candidate countries for the European Social fund, in the framework of the European Employment Strategy. Component V, Rural Development, helps the candidate countries prepare for post-accession EU-funded rural development programmes by implementing pre-accession assistance through systems which are as similar as possible to those required post accession.

In determining the allocations between components, due account has been taken of the readiness of the decentralised management systems necessary for the implementation of components III, IV and V in the current candidate countries as well as the need for component II funding as it relates to cross-border cooperation with Member States to match that of the equivalent ERDF funding from heading 1b.

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    Other Allocations Support expenditure This envelope covers the administrative costs directly linked to the implementation of IPA.

Multi-beneficiary programme allocations The multi-beneficiary programmes under component I are designed to complement the national programmes and to strengthen multilateral relations in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The strategy focuses on areas identified as crucial for European integration and stability in the region and to address issues for which the countries need to cooperate.

Programmes with a regional impact, and / or those which can benefit from economies of scale or scope if implemented horizontally across a number of beneficiary countries, are funded under this envelope.

Multi-beneficiary programmes support, among others, the Regional School for Public Administration, the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), fight against organised crime, ERASMUS scholarships and higher education. They also provide a basis for the Civil Society Facility which combines support from both the national and multi-beneficiary IPA programmes. Institution building for the Western Balkans, Turkey and Iceland is supported via the TAIEX instrument, and allocations are made for audits and evaluation of regional and national programmes, as well as for information and communication activities. Investment needs for SMEs, energy efficiency and infrastructure development, delivered in close collaboration with the European Investment Bank and other International Financial Institutions (IFIs), will continue to be supported with a substantial part of the regional and horizontal allocation. This support will be coordinated under the Western Balkan Investment Framework, set up at the end of 2009 to enhance coordination and cooperation among donors and IFIs actively engaged in the Western Balkans. From 2010, part of component II, namely the participation of countries in ERDF trans-national programmes " Mediterranean" and "South-East Europe" will also be implemented on a multi-beneficiary basis for ease of implementation.

Presentation of the figures The following table provides the above figures in current prices and in euros. It shows the allocations by country and by component, as well as for the multi-beneficiary programme and support expenditure. The final commitment figures for previous years as well as updated figures for 2010 are included for ease of reference.

Revised Multi-Annual Indicative Financial Framework: Breakdown of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance envelope for 2011-2013 into allocations by country and component Component 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 CROATIA

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 49,611,775 45,374,274 45,601,430 39,483,458 39,959,128 40,872,310 38,513,885

Cross-border Co-operation 9,688,225 14,725,726 15,898,570 15,601,136 15,869,158 16,142,542 16,698,384

Regional Development 45,050,000 47,600,000 49,700,000 56,800,000 58,200,000 59,348,000 62,000,000

Human Resources Development 11,377,000 12,700,000 14,200,000 15,700,000 16,000,000 16,040,000 18,000,000

Rural Development 25,500,000 25,600,000 25,800,000 26,000,000 26,500,000 27,268,000 27,700,000 TOTAL 141,227,000 146,000,000 151,200,000 153,584,594 156,528,286 159,670,852 162,912,269 FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 41,641,613 41,122,001 28,803,410 28,207,479 27,941,228

39,310,500 36,917,068

Cross-border Co-operation 4,158,387 4,077,999 4,371,501 5,124,876 5,183,373 5,243,041

4,467,526

Regional Development 7,400,000 12,300,000 20,800,000 29,400,000 39,300,000 42,300,000 51,800,000

Human Resources Development 3,200,000 6,000,000 7,100,000 8,400,000 8,800,000 10,380,000 11,200,000

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Rural Development 2,100,000 6,700,000 10,200,000 12,500,000 16,000,000 19,000,000 21,028,000 TOTAL 58,500,000 70,200,000 91,684,594 98,028,286 105,070,852 117,212,269 81,782,001

Component 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 ICELAND

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 10,000,000 12,000,000 6,000,000 TOTAL 10,000,000 12,000,000 6,000,000 TURKEY

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 256,702,720 256,125,297 239,550,810 228,620,919 233,900,336 238,325,843

217,809,826

Cross-border Co-operation 2,097,280 2,874,709 3,049,190 9,779,081 9,974,664 10,174,157

3,090,174

Regional Development 167,500,000 173,800,000 182,700,000 238,100,000 293,400,000 367,805,000 378,000,000

Human Resources Development 50,200,000 52,900,000 55,600,000 63,400,000 77,600,000 89,930,000 96,000,000

Rural Development 20,700,000 53,000,000 85,500,000 131,300,000 172,500,000 197,890,000 213,000,000 TOTAL 497,200,000 538,700,006 566,400,000 653,700,000 781,900,000 899,500,000 935,500,000

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ALBANIA

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 54,318,790 84,301,650 85,987,683 87,446,037

65,237,75671,360,000 84,200,000

(note: 4 Cross-border Co-operation)6,681,210 8,582,244 9,822,921 9,973,173 10,126,636 10,283,169 10,666,232 TOTAL 61,000,000 94,428,286 96,270,852 98,112,269 73,820,000 81,182,921 94,173,173 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 58,136,394 69,854,783 100,688,099 102,681,861 104,673,499 106,870,228

83,900,000

Cross-border Co-operation 3,963,606 4,945,217 5,207,746 4,696,495 4,746,425 4,797,353 4,942,041 TOTAL 62,100,000 74,800,000 105,384,594 107,428,286 109,470,852 111,812,269 89,107,746

(note: 4 Includes 1.5 million additional funds recovered from previous programmes.)

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Component 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 MONTENEGRO

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 27,490,504 28,112,552 29,843,599 30,446,471 30,996,035

29,832,17929,838,823

Cross-border Co-operation 3,909,496 4,487,448 4,667,821 4,310,344 4,338,551 4,418,687

3,682,690 TOTAL 31,400,000 32,600,000 33,521,513 34,153,943 34,785,022 35,414,722 34,500,000 SERBIA

Transition Assistance and Institution Building 181,496,352 179,441,314 182,551,643 186,206,679 189,956,810 193,801,948 203,101,005

Cross-border Co-operation 8,203,648 11,458,686 12,248,357 11,751,753 11,922,790 12,097,244 11,630,694 TOTAL 189,700,000 190,900,000 194,800,000 197,958,432 201,879,600 205,899,192 214,731,699 KOSOVO

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Transition Assistance and Institution Building 68,300,000 184,700,000 106,100,000 65,828,286 67,070,852 70,712,269

66,100,000

Cross-border Co-operation 0 0 0 2,871,714 2,929,148 2,987,731

1,200,000 TOTAL 68,300,000 184,700,000 106,100,000 67,300,000 68,700,000 70,000,000 73,700,000

Component 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 TOTAL COUNTRY PROGRAMMES

1,109,427,000 1,311,720,006 1,305,072,668 1,397,306,900 1,553,046,687 1,692,667,622 1,755,395,497

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MULTI-BENEFICIARY PROGRAMMES

Transition Assistance and Institution Building

129,571,000137,736,644188,867,536141,706,551

186,269,100 156,860,000 177,845,477

Cross-border Co-operation 0 0 0 4,921,679 5,293,313 5,672,378 6,059,026 SUPPORT EXPENDITURE

44,793,000 51,950,000 47,648,000 80,500,000 84,500,000 47,393,000 52,183,900 GRAND TOTAL 1,263,200,000 1,935,700,000 2,023,800,000 1,501,406,650 1,541,588,204 1,591,328,130 1,796,793,000

Figures are in euros, current prices

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