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The European Parliament’s initiative in assessing the take-up of the Structural Funds deserves praise. This highly negative assessment identifies a number of unacceptable problems in this instrument, which is so crucial for reducing inequalities in regional development.
For various reasons, each one more unacceptable than the next, an excessive proportion of the available funds ends up not being used – between 30 and 60%, depending on the funds! Fortunately, Portugal has a fairly good take-up rate. This assessment identifies the reasons for this underuse, blaming both the Commission and the Member States that benefit from these funds: a lack of transition between programmes, delays in execution and the submission of projects, inadequate coordination and poor planning decisions.
It also presents solutions which, in my view, should be implemented in the mid-term review of the Structural Funds, such as: the simplification of procedures, monitoring of fund use, clarification of the responsibilities of the participants, and sanctions in the event of failure to keep to the timetable and fraud.
Finally, as I have previously argued in this House, this report proposes transitional measures for those regions that currently have Objective 1 status but risk losing it because of the statistical effect resulting from the entry of poorer countries. I welcome the fact that the Commission is sensitive to this injustice."@en1
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