#EU #Cohesion #post2020: What’s Ahead
So far:
-2014: Launch of ex-post evaluations and studies
-2014: High Level Group on implementation set-up
-28 August 2015: Speech by Mrs Creţu at 55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association in Lisbon
-2015: High level Group on simplification set-up
Upcoming:
-interim results/discussions on ex-post evaluation of ESIF
-26 November 2015: Informal Council on Cohesion Policy to evaluate/review Territorial Agenda 2020
-Before end-2015: Commission report on 2014-2020 on the outcome of the 2014/20 PA programming and OP negotiations
-Early 2016:Pubblication of Ex-post evaluation of ESIF
-March 2016: Conference of the Committee of the Regions on cohesion policy post-2020, Brussels
-First half of 2016: Urban Agenda subject to several conferences under Dutch Presidency
-2016: Additional allocation of EUR 4 billion in view of most recent statistics (Art. 92.3 of Common Provisions Regulation)
-Before end-2016: Review of EU 2014-2020 budget
-By the end of 2016: ESIF Summary Report by Commission based on AIRs and synthesis of evaluation findings (annually thereafter)
-2017: High-level Group on Simplification to present conclusions
-31 August 2017: MS Progress Report to Commission on PA implementation
-2017: Commission Strategic Report on ESIF
-End-2017: 7th Cohesion Report to set-out reform proposals and launch public consultation on post-2020 policy design
-31 August 2018: MS Progress Report to Commission on PA implementation
-By 2018: European Commission to present 2021-2027 (?) budget and legislative proposals
-2019: EU Institutional negotiations on post-2020 ESIF Regulations
-2019: EU institutional negotiations on post-2020 MFF
-2019: Performance Reserve Review
-2019: European Commission strategic report on ESIF
