This report on behalf of the Italian Unit of DG Regio sets out a proposal for a plan for administrative reinforcement in the management of ERDF funds in Italy for the period 2021-2027. The report sets out the analyses and proposals for action contained in the previous report of April 2020, which examined the results of the Administrative Strengthening Plan (PRA). The report sets out objectives appropriate to the urgency of making the PA’s response more effective to support the economic recovery, taking into account the lessons learned from the 2014-2020 ARP requested by the Commission. It focuses on three critical regions (Sicily, Calabria and Campania) where administrative capacity building is most urgent due to the problems they face by more programming and the amount of resources they are responsible for. For the other regions, a strengthening plan of different nature and intensity, but useful to accelerate the dynamic of endogenous improvement and establish a link between the new programming and the capacity intervention, with targets and results.
