Amendment of Common Provisions Regulation articles for Member States in financial difficulty

Mad-Daqqa t’Għajn 19-10-2016

The implementation of programmes under the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) is challenging, not least because of the liquidity problems resulting from the fiscal consolidation efforts being made in various EU Member States. The European Commission is suggesting amendments to the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR), the main regulation covering the ESI Funds, in order to ease the liquidity problems that various countries are facing.