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Ex-post Evaluation of the ERDF 2000-2006
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Table 3.2 Expenditure from the ERDF on enterprise support in Objective 2 regions, 2000-2006
Large
firms
SMEs RTDI Total Tourism
support
Large
firms
SMEs RTDI Total Tourism
support
EUR million
% Total support % Total expend
BE 32 83 44 158 60 19.9 52.5 27.6 46.3 17.4
DK 7 25 26 58 32 11.7 42.6 45.6 46.2 25.6
DE 106 1,078 387 1,572 400 6.8 68.6 24.6 54.0 13.8
ES 31 412 644 1,088 36 2.9 37.9 59.2 52.5 1.8
FR 155 934 444 1,533 927 10.1 60.9 29.0 29.9 18.1
IT 4 833 64 901 339 0.5 92.5 7.1 36.6 13.7
LU 0 0 4 4 6 3.9 3.9 92.1 10.7 14.8
NL 4 172 13 189 95 2.0 91.2 6.8 27.6 13.8
AT 140 198 102 440 125 31.9 45.1 23.1 70.6 20.0
FI 0 154 71 226 55 0.0 68.4 31.6 57.5 14.0
SE 1 157 35 193 52 0.7 81.1 18.2 52.4 14.1
UK 12 2,409 230 2,651 138 0.5 90.9 8.7 70.0 3.6
EU15 493 6,456 2,064 9,012 2,265 5.5 71.6 22.9 47.6 12.0
CZ 0 5 4 9 2 0.0 57.8 42.2 16.3 3.2
CY 0 10 0 10 5 0.0 100.0 0.0 43.4 21.4
SK 0 4 1 5 6 0.0 86.1 13.9 14.9 19.1
EU10 0 19 4 23 13 0.0 81.2 18.8 21.6 11.7
EU25 493 6,474 2,069 9,036 2,277 5.5 71.7 22.9 47.4 12.0
Note: Expenditure up to end-2008
Source: Estimates based on DG Regio data
The overall funding of enterprise support which the ERDF contributed to was much larger as a
result of national government co-financing and private sector contributions 21 . Overall, it
amounted to an estimated EUR 89.7.billion in Objective 1 regions in the EU15 and to EUR 49.1
billion in Objective 2 regions (Table 3.3).
How far the ERDF was responsible for levering the substantial amount of private sector financing
which it was associated with, is difficult to determine. It is almost certainly the case that some of
the investment would have been undertaken anyway, even without ERDF financing. Equally, some
would almost certainly not have been.
In the EU10, national government and private sector contributions were smaller, the overall
amount of funding being estimated at just under EUR 4 billion, still substantially larger than the
ERDF contribution alone.
21 The figures for private contributions included in Table 3.3 involves a good deal of estimation. See WP1, Task 2 of
the ex post evaluation. Financial implementation of the Structural Funds, May 2009 –
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/pdf/expost2006/wp1_tsk2_report_final_29052009.pdf.
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