Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee. 2012 annual report on financial assistance for enlargement (IPA, PHARE, CARDS, Turkey Pre-Accession Instrument, Transition Facility)

This Report covers the most significant developments regarding the implementation of pre-accession assistance in 2012, including considerations on future perspectives.

Details on specific activities undertaken during the reporting period can be found in the technical Staff Working Document complementing this report, covering in one single document both IPA and preceding instruments for pre-accession and for the Western Balkans (i.e. PHARE, CARDS, Turkey Pre-accession Instrument and the Transition Facility).

The 2012 Annual Report is an occasion to look at the present successes and lessons learnt at a moment in which the institutional setting of the new IPA instrument covering the next Multiannual Financial Framework is in the process of being finalised.

The Report briefly sets out the political and economic context in which EU-funded activities took place. It highlights the progress made to improve strategic planning and programming documents, providing summary reports on project implementation, their results and the on-going enhancement of donor coordination. Analysis of past experience, provided also by evaluations and conclusions from the IPA 2012 Conference, is used to draw recommendations for further improving the impact of IPA funds up to and beyond 2013.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)625: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:625:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2013)326: Background document http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2013:326:FIN

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