Carpathian Euroregion: Bridging Communities in Central Europe

1. „Conception Carpathian Horizon 2014 – the way to the Carpathian Space Programme 2014 -2020” Eupen 24 June 2010 Dawid Lasek Association Carpathian Euroregion Poland

2. Who we are? Association Carpathian Euroregion Poland Association Carpathian Euroregion Slovakia Nord Rzeszow Regional Developement Agency (Poland) Svidnik Regional Developement Agency (Slovakia) Humenne Regional Developement Agency (Slovakia)

3. And from where?

4. Aims of the presentation; First: “To present current state of the cross-border co-operation and regional development cooperation in Carpathian Euroregion included description of the legal statuses of each national part” Second: “To indicate problem areas of the development of the Carpathian Euroregion and shows the ways to solve it” Third:“To present conception Carpathian Horizon 2014” Fourth:“The road map – what you can do for Carpathian Horizion?”

5. Part 1 Current state of the Carpathian Euroregion

6. Current state of the CE Beginning 14 of February 1993 – Debrecen, as a political initiative supported by Ministries of International Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Territory The Carpathian Euroregion comprises 19 administrative units of five countries from Central and East Europe, which are Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine. Its total area is about 154.000 km2 and it is inhabited by approximately 16 million people. Mission The Carpathian Euroregion wasdesigned to bring together the people who inhabit the region of the Carpathian Mountains and to facilitate their cooperation in the fields of science, culture, education, trade, tourism and economy.

7. Legal Status of the national parts of CE Polish National Part – Association Carpathian Euroregion Poland - 2001 Slovak National Part – Association Carpathian Euroregion Slovakia - 2009 Ukrainian National Part – Association Carpathian Euroregion Ukraine - 2007 Hungary – lack of the legal subjectivity Romania – lack of the legal subjectivity ACEP 2001 ACEU 2007 Structures of co-operation ACESN 2009 ? ?

8. Legal Status of the national parts of CE – Poland’s case Decentraliziation’s mode • Basic attributes of the Association model: • legal subjectivity • working structure composed on member self- governments • working system of the coordination of the activities of the members • common planning, programming and realization of the projects • good method of the representation of the local and regional interests • National Part of the CE can be strong partner in the regional development • and territorial cooperation processes • Identification of the local communities with idea of the Euroregion • legal possibilities of the application for EU sources for organization

9. Legal Status of the national parts of CE – Poland’s case • Association’s Carpatian Euroregion Poland atributes • 62 members: local self-governments including Sub Carpathian Voivodship • Status as a implementing authority and management institution • for Phare CBC and INTERREG IIIA and European Territorial Cooperation programs • Implementation by Association more than 250 CBC projects with total budget the • 5 000 000 EUR • Status as a implementing institution within • Polish – Slovak European Teritorial Cooperation Program 2007 – 2013 • Status as operator of the “umbrella projects” • within European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument • Poland – Belarus – Ukraine 2007 – 2013

10. Legal Status of the national parts of CE – Poland’s case • Association’s Carpatian Euroregion Poland as a implementing authority • promotion of the programs • publishing of the call for proposals • collecting application form and registration of the projects • formal and technical assessment • signing the contracts with beneficiaries • monitoring and controlling of the projects • calculate and finalizing the projects • reporting to the National Managing Institution • (Ministry for Regional Development) and • to the European Commission (DG Regio) formal and technical assessment Association Carpathian Euroregion Poland Contarctations Call for proposals Monitoring Benefiiciaries Aplicants Realization Projects Project ideas Partner Aplicants Partner

11. European Teritorial Co-operation Polish – Slovak Crossborder Program 2007 – 2013 • Program area: 5 NUT’s • Program budget: 178 000 000 EUR (ERDF) • Small Project dudget: 27 000 000 EUR (ERDF) • Pririties: • Developement of thecrossborderinfrastructure • Socio – economical development • Microprojects

12. Strong partnership – the condition for succes 1 Level – membership in our structures 2 Level – partnership within Carpathian Consortium 3 Level – partnership with EU partners 4 Level – project teams and the Euroregional System of Co-operation

13. Membership… • 62 selfgovernements as a supportingmembers: • Region – SubcarpathianProvince (Poland) • Counties – 14 units (Poland) • Communes – 47 units: Cities, Towns and ruralcomunes (Poland)

14. Part 2 Problem areas of the development of the Carpathian Euroregion

15. Structural, legal and organizational barriers of the development of the CE • Lack of legal subjectivity on international level • Lack of the working structure on interregional level (statutes of the national parts) • Lack of the potentiality of the coordination of the cross border cooperation • (low level of the interregional co-operation) • Lack of the common development strategy • Lack of the own sources for development of the Carpathian Euroregion • Lack of the system of the dissemination of information

16. Model of transition proposed and realizing by ACEP Legalization of the national parts Federation of the associations EuropeanGrouping ofthe teritorial co-operation

17. Part 3 Conception Carpathian Horizon 2013

18. Analysis of the EU support for Carpathians to the year 2013 UE programs during perspectives 2007 – 2013: PL-UA-BY ENPI PL-SK HU-SK-RO-UA ENPI HU-SK RO-UA-MD ENPI HU-RO

19. Aim of the Conception Carpathian Horizon 2013 Carpathian Space Programe 2014 – 2020 2007 – 2013

20. Aim of the Conception Carpathian Horizon 2013 Carpathian Space Programe Structures Strategy Procedures Political support 2014 – 2020 2007 – 2013

21. Programming structures of the conception Advisory Committee consultations Support to the process Steering Committee reporting decisions Co-ordination Team Co-ordination Project Team 1 Project Team 2 Project Team n

22. Implementation System of the CSP – 2012 (proposal) Joint Monitoring Committee Joint Managing Authority International level Joint Technical Secretariat Branch Office 1 Branch Office 1 Branch Office 1 Branch Office 1 Project 1 Project 1 Project 1 Project 1 Project 2 Project 2 Project 2 Project 2 Project 3 Project 3 Project 3 Project 3 Country level Country level Country level Country level

23. Lessons learnt from Europe – Alpine Space Programme Alpine Space Programe Carpathian Space Programe

24. Links to the future Carpathian Horizon Eastern Partnership Carpathian Convention Danube Co-operation Area

25. Part 4 “The road map – what we can do for Carpathian Horizion?”

26. An action plan • For euroregional structures • To build efficient working structures of the cooperation • To create mechanisms of the coordination of the interregional partnership • To prepare common, proffesional strategy using EU sources (CE) • To promote idea of the conception (Carpathian Forum – next year) • For national authortities • - To allow the conception to thier positions concerning next financial perspective • For EU’s partners • To support all activities on the european and political level • To identify strategic partners (persons or institutions) on the european level • To joint iniciative’s structure • To promote idea

27. A time table

28. Thanks for your atention! Dawid Lasek dlasek@karpacki.pl