Reports
Date: 28 apr 2021
Period: 2014-2020
Theme: Business support, Culture, Energy, Environment, Rural development, Tourism, Transport, Urban development, Research and innnovation, Research & Development, Territorial cohesion, Social inclusion, Jobs, Education and Training, Structural Funds management and Governance
This report takes stock of the implementation of the ESI Funds over the period 2014- 2019. It provides information on progress in financial implementation and on what the Funds were able to achieve by end-2019 in terms of physical outputs and results.
It is based on the monitoring information in the 2019 annual implementation reports that the Member States submitted to the Commission regarding their investment programmes. The submission deadline of the programmes’ annual implementation reports was extended from 30 June to 30 September 2020, in accordance with the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative (CRII) amendment of the Common Provisions 2 Regulation .
The publication of this report was therefore postponed accordingly, allowing the Commission to already provide some information on the financial implementation of the ESI Funds in 2020 and their mobilisation to alleviate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This 2020 summary report takes stock of the accelerated pace of financial implementation that was maintained in 2019 across all thematic areas. It demonstrates that the level of financial implementation is consistent with the multiannual nature of the policies financed by the ESI Funds. More than €260 billion, representing 41% of the overall allocation, were spent by the end of 2019.
Progress in financial implementation varied across the different themes, with support to SME competitiveness, climate change adaptation and risk prevention, and transport and energy network infrastructures performing best.
The achievements in 2019 significantly surpassed the 2014-2018 cumulative achievements measured through indicators in many instances. Past experience shows that the achievements of the co-financed operations supported by the ESI Funds closely follow the level of financial implementation in the Member States.