Cohesion Action Plan

The Cohesion Action Plan, prepared in November del 2011, was created in order to overcome the delays which, five years from the start of the operational phase of planning for 2007-2013, emerged in the use of the Structural Funds, thus responding to requests for intervention by the European Union.

In 2010, with the adoption of the National Plan for the South, an attempt had been made to speed up the implementation of the Programmes, strengthened by CIPE Resolution No. 1/2011 identifying a path for the reprogramming of the resources of the Operational Programmes targeting the under-utilised areas, and for the definition of commitment targets and certified expenditure.

The Cohesion Action Plan acts to consolidate the acceleration process, defining strategic actions for re-launching southern Italy and committing the branches of the Central and Regional Government to speed up the programmes showing serious delays. The Plan, which is the result of cooperation actions between the European authorities, the Italian Government and the national and regional administrations, lays down rules and principles for the revision of co-financed programmes. The investments defined are concentrated in four priority areas of national strategic interest: education, the digital agenda, employment, railway infrastructures.

Divided into several reprogramming and updating stages, the Cohesion Action Plan provides for the redistribution of Community and national resources totalling 12.1 billion euro.

The NOP for Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013 has joined the Cohesion Action Plan, through the reprogramming of its own resources, transferring the amount of € 1,781,000,000 to the Plan.

The corrective reprogramming of the NOP included in the CAP is structured as follows:

  * Resources available for the CAP horizontal priorities - jurisdiction MiSE-DPS Department Economic Development and Cohesion

To find out which interventions have been started up thanks to the contribution of the NOP for Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013 to the Cohesion Action Plan: