Report from the Commission – Annual report on the Cohesion Fund (2009)

Summary:

Regulation (EC) No 1084/2006 establishing a Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1164/94 does not require the presentation of an annual report on the Cohesion Fund.

Therefore this report is presented in conformity with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1164/1994 and thus covers the implementation during 2009 of Cohesion Fund projects adopted under the 2000-2006 period as well as ex-ISPA projects in the Member States concerned, including Bulgaria and Romania.

As a consequence, this report covers Cohesion Fund operations in the thirteen beneficiary Member States as of end-2006, i.e. Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, as well as ex-ISPA projects adopted in the 2000-2006 period in Bulgaria and Romania. It must be recalled that, as a result of economic growth, Ireland has not been eligible since 1 January 2004, nevertheless, on-going Cohesion Fund projects are still to be closed.

Details on the implementation in 2009 of projects adopted under the 2000-2006 period for each Member State are presented in the Annex to this report.