European Union - Nineteenth Report
Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 8 July 2008.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Foreword—What this report is about
Chapter 1: Introduction and Background
The Development of European Regional
Policy
Box 1: Different Measures of Regional Prosperity
Measuring Disparities
Table 1: Regional GDP per Head in the European
Union, 2005
Box 2: The NUTS Regional Classification
Our Inquiry
Chapter 2: The European Union Structural
and Cohesion Funds
Map : Structural Funds 2007-13: Convergence
and Regional Competitiveness Objectives
Table 2: Cohesion Policy Architecture
Intervention Principles
The Current 2007-2013 Financial Framework
Table 3: Policies' shares of the EU budget
Table 4: Indicative Financial Allocations:
2007-2013
Implementation
Allocation between the Member States
Alternatives to grants
Chapter 3: Proposals for change
Measuring the Policy's impact
Spending priorities
Absorption Cap and co-financing
Relationship with other policies
Concentration of funding
Table 5: Net loss to Member States if Competitiveness
Objective objectives are transferred to Convergence Objective
funding, 2007-2013
Regions and the measurement of wealth
Chapter 4: Administration
Box 3: Regional Representation in Brussels
Administrative burden
Chapter 5: Summary of Conclusions
Appendix 1: Sub-Committee A (Economic and
Financial Affairs, and International Trade)
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: The EU Classification
Appendix 5: List of United Kingdom NUTS regions
Appendix 6: Glossary
Appendix 7: Reports
Oral and Written Evidence
Oral evidence, 8 January 2008
Oral evidence, 15 January 2008
Oral evidence, 29 January 2008
Oral evidence, 19 February 2008
Oral evidence, 26 February 2008
Oral evidence, 4 March 2008
Oral evidence, 6 March 2008
Written Evidence
NOTE: References in the text of the report are as
follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
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