Proposal for a Regulation laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund covered by the Common Strategic Framework and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006

Summary:

On 29 June 2011, the Commission adopted a proposal for the next multi-annual financial framework for the period 2014-2020: A Budget for Europe 2020. Simplification of policy delivery, focus on results and increased use of conditionality are among the major hallmarks of the next set of programmes.

Simplification has been defined as a key objective in the EU Budget Review Communication, the Smart Regulation agenda and the aforesaid communication on the next multi-annual financial framework. Experience suggests that in the current programming period, the diversity and fragmentation of rules governing spending programmes are often perceived as unnecessarily complicated and difficult to implement and control.

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European Commission: SEC(2011)1141: Impact assessment http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2011:1141:FIN:EN:PDF

European Commission: SEC(2011)1142: Summary of the impact assessment http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2011:1142:FIN:EN:PDF

EUR-Lex: C 255/91: Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A52013AE3206

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