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are transversal to all areas such as cohesion, cultural and youth policies and thepromotionofequalopportunitiesandcitizenship,notablygenderequality.ThedefinitionofthepriorityareasofthePNRNewCyclealsotakesintoaccounttheneedforconvergenceoftheimplementationoftheLisbonStrategywithoneofitsmaininstruments,theNSRF2007/2013.BoththepreviousandthecurrentcycleoftheLisbonAgendafindthestructuralfundsandthecohesionfundtobeasignificantlever for action, in particular in the convergence objective regions (North, CentreandAlentejo,Azores),asthefundingofthisdevelopmentisgreater,butalsointhecompetitiveness and employment regions (Lisbon, Madeira, Algarve) where theLisbonAgendafindsaparticularlyfertileterrainalthoughthefundingisless.ButitisnotedthatthePNRcontainsasetofobjectives,measuresandactionsofalegislativeandregulatorynatureinvariousareas,aswellasincentivesandsupportmeasures targeting private agents or their surroundings. With regard the NSRF,therefore, it is a Plan that comes to the aid of a wide range of instruments andinterventiontypologies.ItisalsonotedthatthetimereferenceframeworksofPNRand of NSRF, 2008/2010 and 2007/2013 respectively, do not totally coincide.However,throughoutthenextcycletherewillbeakeyinfluencebetweenthetwoprocesses which requires careful articulation between the respective coordinationstructures.ThefollowingfigureillustratesthecoherentandconsistentassociationbetweenthepriorityareasoftheNewCycleofthePNRandthestrategicprioritiesoftheNSRF,setforalltheOP. 1 1 Forgreaterdevelopmentseeannex“TheroleoftheNationalStrategicReferenceFramework(NSRF)inthePNR”.6