The annual review meeting between the European Commission and the Managing Authorities of the ERDF and ESF Operational Programmes was held in Naples (30-31 March).
The meeting, hosted by the Campania Region and convened by the European Commission, was attended by representatives of the Department for Cohesion Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Agency for Territorial Cohesion, Anpal, the Managing Authorities of the Operational Programmes of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF), technicians and institutional representatives.
The meeting took place at a particularly important time for the Italian administrations involved in the implementation of the programmes co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds, which are between the closure of the 2014-2020 programming period and the beginning of the 2021-2027 cycle.
To open the works the president of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, who discussed, with the Head of the Department for Cohesion Policies of the Italian Government, the release of resources from the Development and Cohesion Fund (FSC). Five billion and 600 million euros that the Campania Region must receive for interventions on roads, urban regeneration, the protection of artistic and environmental heritage.
At the end of the two days, during which inspections and in-depth analysis were also carried out on symbolic interventions such as the Naples Metro and the University Centre of San Giovanni a Teduccio, the representative of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission Nicola De Michelis (disambiguation), He said he was reassured by the outcome of the meeting, although he still felt ‘the problems with the closure of the old programmes and some delay in the departure of the new ones’. The Director praised Campania and included it in the list of regions where European programmes ‘work well’.
Two intense days, also for the Managing Authority of the ROP Campania ERDF, Sergio Negro (disambiguation), according to which, through the comparison between the European Union, the central State and the Regions, important indications emerged to initiate some corrective actions, both from a financial and documentary point of view, to fully absorb expenditure in relation to programming 14-20 and to start on the right foot for the new programming 21-27, avoiding dualisms and overlaps with the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
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