Research for REGI Committee – Technical Assistance at the Initiative of the Commission

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This in-depth analysis, requested by the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development (REGI), focuses on technical assistance (TA) activities at the initiative of the Commission (EC) (Article 58 of the Common Provision Regulation or CPR ) and aims to shed some light on the historical background of its principles and implementation, as well as on the current relationship with the management of TA activities when a Member State is facing temporary budgetary difficulties (Article 25 of the CPR).

At the time of writing, the European Commission has presented a proposal concerning a new ‘TA programme’ (i.e. the Structural Reform Support Programme), and this analysis also provides some preliminary considerations of this initiative, especially as regards the amendment of Article 25 of the CPR and the transfer of TA resources.

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, September 2016: Research for REGI Committee - Technical Assistance at the Initiative of the Commission http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/585889/IPOL_IDA(2016)585889_EN.pdf

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