Test and update of regionalised ESIF payments 1989-2018

The study produced (1) estimated expenditures at the NUTS2 level for the programming period 2014-2020 in line with the rules developed in the previous tender contract and (2) expenditure related to the programming period 2007-2013 was added for years 2016-2018. The revised dataset is available here:  https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/d/tc55-7ysv

The regionalised and modelled expenditures produced in a previous contract were tested against the incurred member-state expenditures reported by the beneficiaries to two member-state agencies (Italy (IT) and Czech Republic (CZ) for the expenditures under the Cohesion Fund (CF) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in programming period 2007-2013.  The test did not lead to changes to the rules applied to the modelling of actual expenditure. Finally, the study examined the location granularity level (location dimension) at which the EC payments were reported in the programming period 2014-2020.