Deprived Urban Areas and Cohesion Policy URBACT Seminar – Deprived Urban Areas Corinne Hermant-de Callataÿ, Senior Policy Officer, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy

Context Long history of EU involvement on issue – Urban Pilot Projects, URBAN I ( ), URBAN II ( ) etc. Problem of poverty and exclusion has increased – Cities of Tomorrow report (2011) Issue now being discussed in the context of an EU Urban Agenda Need for integrated participatory approach central elements of our arrangements (Article 7, CLLD etc.)

Regional & Urban Policy ERDF Regulation Sustainable urban development Article 7 §1. « The ERDF shall support, within operational programmes, sustainable urban development through strategies that set out integrated actions to tackle the economic, environmental, climate, demographic and social challenges affecting urban areas... » Member States should earmark at least 5% of ERDF resources for integrated sustainable urban development with a degree of delegation to urban authority level (minimum=selection of projects)

Regional & Urban Policy ERDF Regulation Sustainable urban development Article 7 §2. « Sustainable urban development shall be undertaken through Integrated Territorial Investment … or through a specific operational programme, or through a specific priority axis … » This approach takes account of  Complexity of tackling deprived areas. Approx. €15 billion (8% of ERDF) to be spent in this way. Most Member States opted for the minimum level of delegation to urban authorities (i.e. selection)

Example 1 - Ile de France region 20% of ERDF/ESF allocation to sustainable urban development in deprived neighbourhoods. Targeted on neighbourhoods which have been selected as "quartiers prioritaires" under the "politique de la ville", and so they may better host economic and commercial activities and public services.

Géographie prioritaire de la politique de la ville

Regional & Urban Policy Une stratégie urbaine basée sur les quartiers prioritaires de la politique de la ville

Example 2 - Rotterdam

Different (territorial and thematically) focus  Basis is urban vision and strategy of each city Combination ERDF and ESF  Future labour market potential (ERDF) & access to employment (ESF)  Physical, economic and social regeneration (ERDF) but also innovation & low carbon economy

Key figures  17 MS will employ ITIs as a delivery mechanism for the implementation of Article 7 Sust. Urban. Dev. (with a financial allocation of EUR 7 billion)  Under half of the Member States will use Art 7 to explicitly tackle urban deprivation  Half of the Member States will allocate more than 7.5% of their ERDF budget for Article 7 to support Sustainable Urban Development

Financial allocation to sustainable urban development (Article 7 ERDF) per MS

Thematic Breakdown of Art 7

New Tools - CLLD Support from all 5 Funds (ERDF, ESF, CF, EARDF, EMFF  for integrated local development strategies designed and implemented by the local community CLLD is a new instrument in Cohesion Policy  Reluctance by some MS to use this instrument 17 MS will apply CLLD in 40 OPs using EUR 2 billion  EUR 1.3 billion of ERDF  0.7 billion of ESF Follow-up required  in order to gain information on the use of this tool

New Tools – Urban Innovative Actions  €371m ( )  To promote innovative and experimental approaches and solutions in the field of sustainable urban development  Annual calls for projects - €5 million maximum per project  Themes to be announced soon call expected this year