The Cohesion Fund concerns Member States with a Gross National Income (GNI) per inhabitant of less than 90% of the EU-average. Compared to 2007-2013, Spain will no longer be eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fund (Spain is currently eligible to a phase-out fund because its GNI is less than the EU-15 average). In 2014-2020 Cyprus will receive phasing-out support. For the rest, all other country beneficiaries are the same as in 2007-2013.

Map: European Commision

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Note:

• The amounts (2011 prices) are subject to the final adoption of the MFF and of the sectoral legislations:
• The youth employment initiative (top up) of EUR 3 billion is not included in.

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According to a press release issued by the Hungarian Ministry for Economy on 9 July 2013, the European Commission approved the first draft of Hungary's Partnership Agreement for the period 2014-2020. Hungary plans to spend around 60% of its allocated resources on economic development.

'The largest amount, an expected 1,200 billion forints (4bn EUR), will be spent on boosting employment', twice as much as in the current generation of programmes (2007-2013). Further 1,100 billion forints will be spent on improving the competitiveness of SMEs. Hungarian authorities plan to submit the Partnership Agreement to the European Commission in November 2013. The Partnership Agreement and the operational programmes are expected to be approved in the first quarter of 2014.

• Read the full press release
• Read the draft Hungarian Partnership Agreement for the period 2014-2020
• More on Structural funds in Hungary on InsidEUROPE

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In line with EU Regulations, every year by 30 April, national authorities submit their forecast of requests for payments for the current and the following year, broken down by programme and Fund. The last column represents the relative forecasting error, which according to the source is 'the forecasting error by a Member State for a given year measured in percentage of the actual payment claims submitted by that Member State during the same year'.

According to the official report, in 2012 Member States overestimated their payment claims by 15% (20% in 2011). Denmark had the highest rate of overestimation, followed by Romania and Cyprus.

The report also notes that 'Germany overestimated its payments by 26%. As its payment claims represent 7.8% of the total claims, this forecast error also had a substantial influence on the overall average. Hungary and Italy had a relatively limited overestimation of 16% and 15% respectively but as their payment claims represent 5.8% and 6.9% of the total value, these forecast errors had a relevant influence on the overall average'.

Poland, Spain, Finland and Austria had the lowest estimation errors. Only four countries underestimated their payment requests (Austria, Sweden, Portugal and Luxembourg).

• Source:  Analysis of the budgetary implementation of the Structural and Cohesion funds in 2012, European Commission

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NOTES:

• Figures are compared to the national allocation available for the period 2007-2013 including reserves and point 17 Interinstitutional Agreement
• CB= Cross-border cooperation
• Data:  Analysis of the budgetary implementation of the Structural and Cohesion funds in 2012, European Commission

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