Territorial Impacts of EU Sector Policies: Insights from TIA

1. Open Days 2007 – 10 Oct. • Territorial Impacts of EU Sector Policies • Dr Kai Böhme • Origin of Territorial Impact Assesssments (TIA) • TIA experience and results by ESPON • TIA application at local level • Conclusion

2. Origin of TIA • ESDP – starts European debate • Roots e.g. Austria – Raumverträglichkeitsprüfung, Germany- Raumordnungsverfahren, Finland - part of Environmental assessment • National experiences focus on territorial effects of projects • ESDP – no definition • ESDP action programme - UK: tool for assessing the impact of spatial development against spatial development objectives • ESPON - assessment criteria, strategies interrelationship, mechanisms to appraise the positive and negative externalities • Rotterdam 2004, Luxembourg 2005 - “The territorial state and perspectives of the European Union” ,  Leipzig 2007 Territorial Agenda

3. ESPON TIA approaches • Based on ESDP thinking • EU policy assessed: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Fishery, Structural Funds, Pre Accession Aid, Research & Development and Transport • Ex-post, ex-ante and comprehensive model • Key questions: • Against which policy objective? • Methodology to make objectives measurable? • Data collection? • Results?

4. CAP (Univ. of Aberdeen) • Elements • P 1 market price support • P 2 Rural development policy • Small scale actions LEADER • Reference • Balanced competitiveness • Social and economic cohesion • Assumption diminishing role of agriculture leads to competitiveness • Results • P 1  richer regions in the core • P 2 more or less neutral • LEADER most effective for rural development

5. SF (Nordregio, Stockholm & IRS, Erkner) • Elements • Structural Funds, • Pre-accession Aid • Reference • Territorial cohesion • Polycentricity (morphology, links, functions, cooperation) • 3 level approach • Results • Regional cross-border situations • Urban areas outside the core • Leverage effects

6. TEN (Christian-Albrechts-Univ. Kiel) • Elements • TEN & TINA • Motorways, HS rail network, secondary transport networks, ICT networks • Reference • Change in accessibility • GDP per capita • 13 scenarios • Results • Cohesion in relative but not in absolute terms • European polycentricity in the East • Increasing road transport East & rural areas

7. Towards an TIA methodology • Generalising efforts: • Minimum criteria for TIA • scoping • analyzing • concluding • TEQUILA: • econometric • multi-criteria • impact model • Contribution to the discussion on the cost of non-coordination of sector policies • Interaction between different policies needs to better investigated – general methodology? • TIA Ex-ante assessment of particular interest in policy debate • Results found way into policy process (Territorial State and Perspectives of the EU and indirectly in the Territorial Agenda) • ESPON 2006 only first step

8. TIA for local plans & policies • Effects of a local master plan (municipality of Gothenburg, Sweden) • Adaptation of ESPON approaches (TEQUILA) • Focus on • Housing market • Market for office premises • Labour market • Economic structure • Regional growth & development • Results expected by end of 2007

9. Conclusion • TIA can contribute to European policies • TIA can be used at local and regional level • More discussion is needed on • methodologies • how to integrate it in decision making TIA is supposed to inform policy making.

10. Thank you very much for your attention! • Dr Kai Böhme • kai.boehme@sweco.se • +46 730 39 73 30 • www.eurofutures.se • www.spatialforesight.eu