1. Part-financed by the European Union The Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 by the Joint Technical Secretariat BSR INTERREG III B Neighbourhood Programme 5th Quality Workshop “Implementation of joint ERDF/Tacis financed projects” 26 September 2007, Riga

2. What is the BSR INTERREG IIIB Neighbourhood Programme Situation in the 1 st round (year 2001) - INTERREG 1 Application for ERDF + Norwegian funding (DE, DK, SE, FI, NO) 1 Application for PHARE (PL, LT, LV, EE) 1 Application for Tacis (RU, BY) Situation in the 8 th round (year 2005) - NEIGHBOURHOOD 1 Application for internal (ERDF) fund & External (Tacis) fund (Single application process opened to all 11 BSR countries) Situation in the future (years 2007-13) – BSRP (incl. ENPI) Fully integrated implementation procedures for ERDF and ENPI Challenge: To synchronize the two different systems that apply to the two different funding sources (ERDF and Tacis)

3. Division of responsibilities regarding external (Tacis) fund Joint Secretariat: Preparation of the call and registration of incoming applications Assessment Steering Committee: Funding decisions EC Delegation : Clarification and contracting Activity and financial reporting/monitoring Payments

4. Programme statistical overview Total number of projects approved in all 9 rounds129 Total ERDF programme funding committed in all 9 rounds :€ 120 M Total external Tacis IIIB programme funding committed in all 9 rounds:€ 7,1 M External (Tacis) funding committed to 19 joint projects in 8th round:€ 3,8 M External (Tacis) funding committed to 10 projects in 9th round:€ 3,3M

7. BSR INTERRERG III B NP Programme Data