The document outlines Austria's EU budget allocations for 2014-2020, focusing on the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) and their corresponding objectives. It details Austria's socioeconomic criteria for eligibility in designated areas, funding priorities, and expected results related to climate change, innovation, and social inclusion. Additionally, it discusses the financial allocations earmarked for operational programs, emphasizing reductions in program numbers while addressing regional development needs.

1. AUSTRIA
UPDATED | 11| 2014

2. EU BUDGETS
2014 | 2020

3. COHESION
AREAS

4. POLICY
ELIGIBILITY
2014 - 2020

5. ALL AMOUNTS x 1.000.000
Global Europe
Administration
Compensation
ALLOCATION
IN 2011 PRICES
Security & Citizenship
€ 199.828
EU BUDGET
€ 959.988
in current prices: € 1.082.555

6. BUDGET
PROPORTIONS
ALL AMOUNTS x 1.000.000

7. BUDGET
AUSTRIA
AMOUNTS
REGIONALLY
ALLOCATED
ALL AMOUNTS x 1.000.000

8. THE 5
ESI FUNDS
The five European Structural and Investment Funds;
| The European Regional Development Fund
| The European Social Fund
| The Cohesion Fund
| The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
| The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

9. PARTNERSHIP
AGREEMENTS
| EU Member States are required to draw up and implement
strategic plans with investment priorities covering the five ESI
Funds.
| These Partnership Agreements (PAs) are negotiated between the
European Commission and national authorities, following their
consultation of various levels of governance, representatives from
interest groups, civil society and local
and regional representatives.

10. MAXIMUM
AID PERCENTAGES
| The designated areas, a list of regions with 2,186,465 inhabitants,
cover 25.87% of Austria's population.
| Austria has proposed its assisted areas across the country on the
basis of a wide range of criteria, including those that reflect the
socioeconomic situation (i.e. GDP per capita, below EU average or
high unemployment compared to national average), the
geographical situation (e.g. mountain areas) or structural problems
at national level.

11. MAXIMUM
AID PERCENTAGES
| The maximum level of aid that can be granted to investment
projects carried out by large companies is 10%. For investments
carried out by SMEs, these percentages can be increased by up to
10 percentage points for medium-sized enterprises and 20
percentage points for small enterprises.
| While the population coverage has increased by around 3.4
percentage points compared to the previous aid map, the aid
intensities have slightly decreased. This is in line with the
objectives of the new regional aid guidelines, which aim at focusing
support on the most disadvantaged regions of Europe.

12. STATUS
CURRENT
UPDATED 30/10
Total number
of OP´s submitted
per country
Countries have
their OP´s
adopted: 21 OP >Denmark
1 OP >Lithuania

13. PLANNING
| Partnership Agreement Adopted 17 – 10 – 2014
| 1 Operational Programmme submitted
| Adoption of OP’s by European commission in Q4 2014
| Exp.1st grant calls Q1 2015 for funding priorities related to OP’s
OPs should be submitted by Member States within 3 months following the
submission of the Partnership Agreement.
The Commission makes observations within 3 months and adopts the OP
no later than 6 months from the date of its submission.

14. FUNDING
PRIORITIES
The PA focusses in particular on the following thematic objectives:
| Preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource
efficiency (26% of ESI-Funds, EAFRD and ERDF)
| Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management
(26% of ESI-Funds, exclusively EAFRD)
| Enhancing innovation and the competiveness of SMEs and of the
agricultural sector (16.5% of ESI-Funds, EAFRD and ERDF)
| Promoting social inclusion, combating poverty and any discrimination
(11% of ESI-Funds, in particular from the EAFRD and the ESF).

15. FUNDING
PRIORITIES
Other thematic objectives will be supported by the ERDF and the ESF,
while the EMFF allocation of EUR 7 million will be focussed on
investments that should increase the competiveness of the aquaculture
sector.
As the EAFRD contributes to 80% of total ESI-Funds in Austria, the relative
weight of the fund and of the thematic objectives under which the EAFRD
operates is high.

16. EXPECTED
RESULTS
ESI-Funds will support Austria in achieving its targets:
| RTDI expenditure in relation to GDP is to increase from 2.84 (2012) to
3.76% (2020) with a focus on private spending.
| ESI-Funds will contribute to a CO² reduction (from -12.7% in 2012 to -
16% in 2020) and to improved energy efficiency and lower energy
consumption (-7.16 million tons by 2020).
| ESI-Funds are to help to increase the employment rate (to 77-78%),
reduce the early school leaving rate (to 9,5%) and to reduce the number of
people at risk of poverty or exclusion by 235,000 persons by 2020.

17. FINANCIAL
ALLOCATIONS
| Austria will receive 4,923 million EUR from ESI-Funds and 257 million
EUR for European Territorial Cooperation.
| 26.8 million EUR (5% of the ERDF allocation) will be invested in
integrated sustainable urban development actions mainly to be
implemented in Vienna. A small share of ERDF will be reserved for CLLD
in Tirol.
| An amount of 1,595 million EUR (32.4% of the total ESIF allocation) will
be invested to support climate related investments, which exceeds the
required 20% share.

18. FINANCIAL
ALLOCATIONS
For the ERDF, indicative regional allocations to each of the
Bundesländer have been determined by Austria, while for the
EAFRD, ESF and EMFF, the respective allocations are in principle
Austrian-wide without a pre-determined regional allocation, with the
exception however for the transitional region Burgenland and for
the ESF investment priority on social inclusion.

19. PROGRAMME
ARCHITECTURE
Cohesion policy will be delivered by four operational programmes (OPs),
one for each fund. As compared to 2007-2013, a reduction from nine to
one ERDF programme, and from two to one ESF programme, has been
achieved. The EAFRD and the EMFF contributions will be delivered by one
national programme as before.
Following the reduction of the number of ERDF programmes, which takes
place in the framework of the Austrian ERDF Reform Agenda, the number
of managing authorities will diminish by eight, as there will be no regional
programmes (one for each Bundesland) any more.

20. EU BUDGET
BEEAKDOWN
ALL AMOUNTS x 1.000.000

21. ALLOCATION BROKEN DOWN BY
THEMATIC OBJECTIVE& BY FUND
FRANCE
UPDATED | 09 | 2014

22. FUNDINGPRIORITIES
FRANCE
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