1. State of play of OP negotiations and OP implementation
ESF Committee Luxembourg, 4 December 2015

2. I. Statistics on adoption of OPs
Number of ESF supported OPs adopted:
By : out of which ALL 34 OPs supported by the YEI
Number of ESF supported OPs to be adopted:
14 : all ES OPs

3. Austria 1 Belgium 4 Bulgaria 3 2 Croatia Cyprus Czech Rep. 3 (adopted)
MEMBER STATE
Total number of OPs
Adopted by end of 2014
Carry-over
(all adopted)
To be adopted after MFF amendment
Austria 1
Belgium 4
Bulgaria 3 2
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Rep.
3 (adopted)
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France 33
Germany 17 16
Greece
Hungary 5
1 (adopted)
Ireland

4. 20 1 8 (8 adopted) 8 9 22 (8 adopted) 1 (adopted) 4 2 (adopted)
MEMBER STATE
Total number of OPs
Adopted by end of 2014
Carry-over (all adopted)
To be adopted after MFF amendment
Italy 29 20 1
8 (8 adopted)
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxemburg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland 17 8 9
Portugal 10
Romania 2
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain 23
22 (8 adopted)
Sweden
1 (adopted)
United Kingdom 6 4
2 (adopted)

5. II. OP Amendments
All OP amendments are to be examined and approved by the Monitoring Committee
(Art. 110(2)(e) CPR)
But not all OP amendments need to be approved by the Commission
Art. 96(10) CPR lists the elements that are not approved by COM decision: e.g. the categories of intervention and their indicative breakdown, the authorities, the role of partners in implementation, monitoring and evaluation, …

6. III. Amendments not requiring COM approval
MA has to inform the Commission within 1 month of the decision to amend the OP. The decision has to mention the date of entry into force – date cannot be earlier than its adoption (Art. 96(11) CPR).

7. IV. Amendments requiring COM approval (1)
Procedure is set out in Art. 30 CPR
Requests must be duly justified: what, why and impact ?
Set out expected impact on achieving the OP’s specific objectives and on achieving the Europe 202O Strategy
No need for an ex ante evaluation
Changes in the OP to be compliant with the regulatory framework and consistent with Partnership Agreement

8. IV. Amendments requiring COM approval (2)
COM may make observations within one month following submission of amended OP
Member State to provide the all necessary additional information
COM to adopt the amendment ASAP but no later than 3 months after the submission of the amended OP – provided all observations have been adequately taken into account.
3 month deadline is interrupted following the COM observations until receipt of an amended OP that takes into account the observations

9. IV. Amendments requiring COM approval (3)
Expenditure that becomes eligible as a result of an amendment to an OP (that has to be approved by the COM) shall only be eligible from the date of the submission of the request for amendment to the COM.

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