Focus on: The European Structural and Investment Funds and Sound Economic Governance: Guidelines for the Implementation of Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation

Briefing 15-12-2014

This briefing aims at analysing the Commission’s Communication on the Guidelines on the application of the measures linking effectiveness of the European Structural and Investment Funds to sound economic governance according to Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 1303/2013. The aim is to provide input for the ongoing work of the Committee on Regional Development, with regard in particular to the drawing-up of an own-initiative report on this topic. The Guidelines address issues under the first strand of Article 23, and thus the analysis included in the briefing is focused on the first strand of measures linking effectiveness of ESI Funds to sound economic governance.