List of programme specific indicators related to the cohesion policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic

In the coming months, Member States and regions will be amending their programmes to transfer funds to actions targeting the COVID-19 response. During such transfers, it is important that also indicators and targets are adjusted to capture the changed nature of the programme’s priorities. Several MS have discussed informally with the Commission their plans to add programmes specific indicators for new actions targeting the COVID-19 response to capture the outputs from expenditure.

In order to exploit programme specific indicators, which could be commonly applied across Member States, we propose a voluntary list of such indicators, to be used when relevant. The use of the unique codes and names will allow the Commission to make use of the monitoring done by the cooperating programmes. A wide use of these codes and indicators would be highly valued for accountability, transparency and other policy purposes, such as communication at EU level (with all caveats on the potential lack of completeness of aggregation).