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European Communities - Eleventh Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 18 March 1997.

VOLUME I-CONTENTS

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  PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1

  PART 2 BACKGROUND 7

  EU terminology 7

  Funds: scale and purposes 11

  Principles of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund 20

PART 3 WITNESSES' EVIDENCE AND OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE 27

Introduction 27

  Opinion: introductory matters: cohesion-who pays? 31

Cohesion: a joint Community and Member State responsibility 32

  Opinion: responsibility for cohesion 34

Philosophy: the four Principles 37

Programming and Partnership 38

  Opinion: programming and partnership 45

Concentration 51

  Opinion: concentration 52

Additionality and matching-funding 53

  Opinion: additionality and matching-funding 55

What are the Funds achieving? 57

Statistical evidence on disparities 57

National macro-economic policies 62

Funding issues 64

Administrative weaknesses 69

Psychological effects 74

  Opinion: economic achievements 76

  Opinion: funding issues 79

  Opinion: psychological effects 83

  Opinion: basis for reform 89

Enlargement 98

  Opinion: enlargement and EMU 102

  Opinion: distribution of funds within the EU after 1999 105

Recommendation 111

PART 4 SUMMARY OF THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS 112

  Responsibility for cohesion 112

  Programming and partnership 114

  Additionality 119

  Economic achievements 121

  Funding issues 122

  Psychological effects 125

  Basis for reform 126

  Enlargement and EMU 133

  Distribution of Funds within the EU after 1999 135

Appendix 1-Membership of Sub-Committee A

Appendix 2-List of Witnesses

Appendix 3-Facts on Structural Funds

NOTE: Pages of the report (Volume I) are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence (Volume II-HL Paper 64-I) are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the report are as follows:

    (Q)  refers to a question in oral evidence;
  (p)  with a bold number refers to a page of the report and with an ordinary number to a page of evidence.



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