REACT-EU

ReactEU – 2014-2020 period

Additional resources of EUR 58.3 billion (in current prices)

Budgetary commitments in the 2014-2020 OPs, distributed in 2 rounds

2020: EUR 5 billion (from MFF) and 2021: EUR 42.5 billion (from ERI)

2022: EUR 10.8 billion (from ERI)

No mixing with “normal” allocations

Allocation method: per MS, taking into account relative prosperity

and the extent of the socio-economic effects of the current crisis

Exceptionally, no breakdown per categories of regions

Up to Member States to distribute between ERDF, ESF and FEAD

Up to 100% EU co-financing (optional)

End date for eligibility remains unchanged

New thematic objective “Fostering crisis repair in the

context of the COVID-19 pandemic and preparing a green,

digital and resilient recovery of the economy”

ERDF will focus primarily on:

product and services for health services and working capital or

investment support to SMEs

investments in transition towards a digital and green economy

investments in infrastructure providing basic services to citizens, or

economic measures in the most affected regions and sectors

ERDF – green, digital and resilient recovery

Recovery package – 2021-2027 CPR ERDF JTF

Commission proposals on 2021-2027

1) CPR:

More flexibility to transfer resources – both at PA and programme level

Rapid and easy use of the Funds in response to exceptional circumstance as

referred to in the Stability and Growth Pact (recognized by the Council) - temporary

measures to be proposed by the Commission (IA)

Up to EUR 10 billion available as MFF technical adjustment in 2024

2) ERDF/CF

More visibility for some sectors (job creation, health sector, on-line education &

training, culture & tourism

Temporary measures in case of exceptional and unusual circumstances in the

context of the SGP

Commission proposal on JTF

3) JTF - Increase resources totaling EUR 44.1 bn (current prices) to

cope with the acceleration of investments in transition and the

higher vulnerability of impacted territories

through additional MFF resources (increase to EUR 11.3bn in current prices)

through external assigned revenue allocated to the years 2021 to 2024 (EUR

32.8 bn in current prices)

Obligatory ERDF/ESF+ transfer applies ONLY to the MFF resources ie EUR 11.3

bn (not to the assigned revenue)

Annex I on the allocation methodology is adjusted accordingly (EUR 8 bn capping

and EUR 32 min. aid intensity over the period – both in 2018 prices)

REACT-EU (ESF and FEAD)

Marianne DOYEN, DG EMPL

Unit F1: ESF&FEAD

The increased ESF funding will mainly support:

job maintenance

job creation

youth employment

access to social services

education, training and skills

ESF - Keeping people in work

• additional support to people facing poverty

• FEAD programmes can get additional resources

under REACT-EU (2020-22)

• under specific rules

• On a voluntary basis for MS

Amendments to the FEAD

Amended proposal for a Regulation on the ESF+ (2021-2027)

Marianne DOYEN, DG EMPL

Unit F1: ESF&FEAD

ESF+ What is new?

Scope

ESF

YEI

FEAD

EU4Health

Programme

EaSI

EU4Health Programme

European Social Fund

(shared management)

Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived

(shared management)

Youth Employment Initiative

(shared management)

European Programme for Employment

and Social Innovation

(direct management)

• Budget: €97 332 282 000 in current prices

• Thematic concentration requirements:

Youth employment (15% in MS with high NEET rates in 2019)

Child poverty (5% of ESF+ shared management resources; for: early

childcare, education, access to services, healthcare and housing

• Emphasis on green and digital transitions & gender equality

• NEW article on “Temporary measures for the use of the ESF+ in

response to exceptional & unusual circumstances” Empowerment for

the COM to :

extend the ESF+ scope

ease thematic concentration requirements

ESF+ What’s new?