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JASPERS – EBRD Role. EBRD Role in JASPERS. Partner in JASPERS together with EIB and EC, member of JASPERS Steering Group Provide 5 to 8 staff years input to JASPERS Back up from EBRD Resident Offices Involved in preparing Jaspers Country Action Plans
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EBRD Role in JASPERS • Partner in JASPERS together with EIB and EC, member of JASPERS Steering Group • Provide 5 to 8 staff years input to JASPERS • Back up from EBRD Resident Offices • Involved in preparing Jaspers Country Action Plans • Focus via Jaspers on support in project preparation and resolving horizontal issues affecting projects
Examples of JASPERS-type cooperation (1) • Prepare project concepts (eg. ISPA Arad PPP options study; CF Gdansk asset holding) => Ensure project structure meets DG Regio guidelines • Organise feasibility studies; write feasibility study ToRs; supervise consultants (eg. ISPA Wroclaw waste; CF Bydgoszcz; ISPA Romania MELF) => Ensure good feasibility study input to CF/SF Application • Tackle state aid issues (eg. CF Krakow heating – legal analysis, project scope adjustment, liaison with DG Regio/Competition; also public transport-Altmark ruling SF) => Help pre-empt / overcome problems during inter-service consultation • Financial analysis (use common affordabilty/financial model) => Ensure proposed grant rate is justified
Examples of JASPERS-type cooperation (2) • Assurance of counterpart funds (eg review of beneficiary capacity –ISPA Arges waste, Romania) => Confirm full project financing plan is realistic • Assess windfall gains issues for PPP (eg. CF Gdansk water; ISPA Sofia water) => Ensure compliance to DG Regio PPP guidelines • Resolve EIA compliance issues (eg. SF Krakow public transport) => Help beneficiary address issues raised by DG Env • Institution building and corporate development (eg. ISPA „FOPIPs” Burgas, Rousse, Romania MUDP-MELF) => Help beneficiary ensure sustainable implementation • Appraise / help improve SF/CF applications (eg. SF Krakow public transport) => Improve quality of applications reaching national steering committees and DG Regio
Where can EBRD add most value via Jaspers? • Projects with non-sovereign beneficiary (municipality, region, utility, special purpose company) • Projects with a private sector dimension • Revenue generating projects • Institutional / corporate development challenges • Sectors: environment, urban transport, energy efficiency/renewable energy, national and regional transport concessions and rolling stock financing