Revista Tinerilor Economiºti (The Young Economists Journal)

Finances - Accounting
governments.
5. Additionality. Contribution offered by these funds will not replace public or
equivalent structural expenditure by Member States. The level of additionality is
determined by macroeconomic conditions in which funding is made, taking into
account specific situations, such as privatization and an exceptional level of public or
equivalent structural expenditure in the Member States.
General Regulation on Structural tools and features to make the main
components of structural instruments management:
National Strategic Reference Framework. Member States must provide the
Commission with a National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), which ensures
that Community structural aid is consistent with the Community strategic guidelines
and identify the link between Community priorities, on the one hand, and national and
regional priorities, the Moreover, in order to promote sustainable development. Each
national strategic reference framework shall contain a summary of Member States'
strategy (strategic section) and the mechanism for implementation (operational section).
Section NSRF strategic must: a) thematic and territorial priorities, including
urban regeneration and economic diversification of rural areas dependent on fishing and
b) only for the convergence objective, the proceedings provided for strengthening the
administrative efficiency of the Member States, including management funding and
evaluation plans, c) only for the objective "Regional competitiveness and employment
", the list of regions chosen for regional competition.
Operational section should contain: a) a list of operational programs and the
indicative annual allocation from each fund for each program, ensuring a balance
between regional and thematic activities, b) the mechanism for ensuring coordination
between operational and funding programs, c) the contribution of other instruments and
the coordination of their funds.
Operational programs. Operational programs are documents approved by the
Commission for implementation of those sectoral priorities and / or regional National
Development Plan which are approved for funding through the Community Support
Framework. Each operational program must cover the period 2007-2013, will include
goals and priorities of the NSRF and will cover only one of the three objectives of
cohesion policy. OP should receive funding from a single fund. ERDF and the ESF may
finance specific measures other Fund in the amount of up to 10% of the amount
allocated to each operational program priorities (flexibility clause).
Operational programs that support the goal of "convergence" to be screened at
the appropriate geographical level, at least at the regional level NUTS II.
4. Analyses
Access and absorption of structural funds is the biggest challenge for public
administration for business and nongovernmental sector. European integration itself
depends on the optimization and efficient absorption of substantial funds for Romania
during 2007-2013. Our country will receive in 2007-2013 Structural and Cohesion
Funds amounting to 19.67 billion euros. The money will be allocated to basic
infrastructure projects (60% of the total) and economic competitiveness (15%), human
capital (20%) and capacity (5%). National co-financing the same period is estimated at
5.53 billion euros, made up of both public (77% of the total co-financing) and private
sources (23%). According to the information provided by the Ministry of Finance, the
total amount was paid by Romania to the EU budget in 2007 was 3.97 billion lei (1.2
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