 An
Operational Programme (O.P)
is a document approved by the Commission for the purpose of implementing
a Community Support Framework, comprising a coherent set of priorities
with multiannual measures, and which may be implemented through
recourse to one or more Funds, to one or more of the other existing
financial instruments and to the EIB. An integrated operational
programme is one financed by more that one Fund.
Each
Operational Programme includes:
-
 The
priorities of the programme
-
The
description of the measures to be applied for each priority
-
An
indicative finance plan which specifies for each priority and
for each year the amount of the planned financial contribution
for each Fund.
-
The
provisions for the implementation of the operational programme:
-
 Appointment
of a managint authority, in charge of managing the Operational
Programme
-
A
description of the process whereby community grants are
used
-
A
description of the monitoring and assessment systems
-
Designation
of the paying authority and definition of the procedures
for mobilisation and circulation of financial flows.
-
A
description of specific rules and procedures, for example
those related to the composition of the Monitoring Committee.
The
Programme complement is a document whereby the intervention strategy
and priorities are applied. It contains the details of the measures
to be taken in the intervention. It is approved by the Monitoring
Committee and is submitted to the Commission for informational purposes.
The Programme complement includes:
-
The
implementation measures corresponding to the priorities of the
Operational Programmes, the prior assessment of the measures
and monitoring guidelines.
-
A
definition of the categories of final beneficiaries of the measures.
-
A
finance plan, together with a description of the provisions
made to ensure national contribution to finance the measures.
-
The
measures intended to ensure publicity of the Operational Programme.
-
A
description of the modes agreed to for the computer exchange
of data with the Commission.
In addition to these Operational Programmes,
the ESF programmes
in Spain include the seven SPD for Objective 2 and the Community
Initiative Programme (CIP)
EQUAL.
Programme
structure followed in Spain
The separation of the areas of competencies of
the Central Administration and of the Autonomous Regions entails
the need to structure actions planned by the ESF in two main Operational
Programme groups:
-
Regional
Programmes which encompass the actions of each autonomous administration,
covering the five priority areas of action provided in the ESF
Regulations.
-
Multiregional
Programmes, of a horizontal nature, whose structure is linked
to the areas of action, and which define actions of the General
Central Administration and of other national agents at a state
level.
As such, five modes of multiregional intervention
are planned, centred around different subject areas and encompassing
the participation of institutions involved in actions in those areas
by virtue of their competencies.
The Operational Programmes cover five subject
areas:
-
Actions
aimed at stimulating employment and vocational training (Objectives
1 and 3)
-
Particular
attention given to groups which require specialised and specifically
designed actions (Objectives 1 and 3)
-
The
organisation of the vocational training system (Objectives 1
and 3)
-
Actions
in the field of lifelong training and strengthening of business
capacity. (Objectives 1 and 3)
- The
Spanish system of Research, Development and Innovation (Objective
1; in Objective 2 it is found in the 7 SPD)
What
is a global grant?
Within an Operational Programme, the management
authority can decide, in accordance with the Commission and with
the beneficiary of the programme, that one part of the endowment
of the Programme is reserved with a final character for the implementation
of certain given actions, considered as priorities: this mechanism
is known as global grant. In the case of the European Social Fund,
Art. 4.2 of its Regulations describes the usage of this formula
to facilitate the access of non-profit making organisations and
local partnerships to small grants.
In order to manage this credit reserve, the management
authority signs an agreement with an Intermediary, which must guarantee
its reliability, its experience and its settlement in the territory.
In the Spanish programme, two types of global
grants have been designed:
- The most part are dedicated to stimulate the associative network
in the area of fighting against the discrimination of the less
favoured groups.
- Others are dedicated to stimulate local development through
a series of interventions in neighbourhoods with specific difficulties
of insertion into the labour market.
The global grants included in the Operational
Programmes for the period 2000-2006 are the following:
|
Operational Programme
|
Aim
|
Amount in Euros
|
Intermediary |
| Regional Government of Aragón |
The global grant will be applied to
granting small grants for non-profit entities in the territory
of the Autonomous Region of Aragón. It is aimed at the
development of projects of social and labour integration of
those with special difficulties of integration and insertion
|
3.245.466
|
Instituto Aragonés de Servicios Sociales
|
Autonomous Community of the Balearic
Islands
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding small grants for non-profit organisations within
the territory of the Autonomous Region. It aims at the implementation
of pre-training and training activities for immigrants coming
from the orientation and information services of the insular
territorial institutions. These activities will respond to their
most immediate needs of insertion into the labour market.
|
631.057
|
Instituto Balear de Asuntos Sociales
|
Government of Castilla y León
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding small grants for non-profit and local entities
within the territory of the Autonomous Region. It is aimed at
financing actions for the promotion of the equality of opportunities
for everybody regarding the access to the labour market, with
special attention to those in risk of exclusion.
|
40.007.411
|
Gerencia de Servicios Sociales de Castilla
y León
|
Government of Catalonia
|
The global grant, which will be managed
by the Consortium of the Barrio de la Mina, will be dedicated
to conceding small grants for non-profit entities. It aims at
offering, through actions of prevention and fighting against
unemployment and for the development of human resources, opportunities
of social integration into the labour market for those groups
with social and labour problems and in risk of exclusion from
the neighbourhood of La Mina, especially young people
|
4.375.367
|
Consejería de Trabajo
Consorcio Barrio de la Mina
|
Autonomous Region of Madrid
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding small grants to non-profit organisations and entities
within the territory of the Autonomous Region. It aims at the
implementation of actions supporting handicapped people within
the labour market, actions of support for the insertion of immigrants
with difficulties of integration into the labour market and
actions of promotion and creation of opportunities of integration
for those in risk of exclusion.
|
11.577.472
|
Dirección General de Servicios Sociales
|
Autonomous Region of Navarra
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding small grants to non-profit entities within the
territory of the statutory Autonomous region. Its objective
is to reach social and labour integration, through itineraries
of insertion of ethnic and immigrant minorities.
|
|
Instituto Navarra de Bienestar Social
|
Autonomous Region of the Basque Country
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding small grants to non-profit entities involved in
the processes of transition to a normal labour environment for
handicapped people within the territory of the Autonomous region.
Its objective is the implementation and maintenance of professionalised
services, capable of offering to the handicapped user a personalised
accompaniment in every phase of their professional integration
and orientation, the process of being hired into ordinary companies,
their training for the office and a permanent monitoring.
|
1.841.833,53
|
Asociación Vasca de Empleo Protegido
|
Autonomous Region of the Basque Country
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding grants for non-profit entities involved in the
social and labour insertion of those people in situations of
risk of exclusion within the territory of the Autonomous Region.
|
2.671.164,91
|
Federación de Reinserción Social
|
Autonomous Region of La Rioja
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to conceding small grants for non-profit organisations and collaborating
entities within the territory of the Autonomous Region of La
Rioja. Its objective is the implementation of actions of orientation,
information, socio-professional assessment, pre-training and
vocational training, all of them directed to immigrants, looking
for their integration into the labour market.
|
143.037
|
Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de
La Rioja
|
Fomenting Employment (Objective 1)
|
The global grant will be dedicated to offering to those in
search of employment an opportunity of work internship that
complements the training in those services for the attention
of people with special needs. These services include care
to children, elderly people, the handicapped, ill people,
people in risk of social exclusion, etc. The setting of a
network of kindergartens and, in general, of day centres or
proximity services for the attention to dependant people.
Those projects promoted by Local Corporations of more than
50,000 or by Provincial, Town of Insular Councils will be
financed, provided that the y include the same number of people.
Local Corporations will participate in the financing and will
have to incorporate an agreement that involves the highest
degree of participation of the social agents who work in this
area, of interested companies, Universities or Centres of
Vocational Training, non-profit organisations, etc.
|
272.834.236
|
D.G. para la Administración Local (MAP)
|
Fomenting Employment (Objective 3)
|
The global grant will be dedicated
to offering to those in search of employment an opportunity
of work internship that complements the training in those services
for the attention of people with special needs. These services
include care to children, elderly people, the handicapped, ill
people, people in risk of social exclusion, etc. The setting
of a network of kindergartens and, in general, of day centres
or proximity services for the attention to dependant people.
Those projects promoted by Local Corporations of more than
50,000 or by Provincial, Town of Insular Councils will be
financed, provided that the y include the same number of people.
Local Corporations will participate in the financing and will
have to incorporate an agreement that involves the highest
degree of participation of the social agents who work in this
area, of interested companies, Universities or Centres of
Vocational Training, non-profit organisations, etc.
|
210.554.083
|
D.G. para la Administración Local (MAP)
|
| Fight against discrimination (Objective
1) |
The global grant will be dedicated to conceding small grants
to non-profit organisations. Their aim is the financing of
projects which contribute to the strengthening of the associative
network, basically:
- Supporting activities of training for volunteers.·
Designing programmes that support the professionalising
of the sector.
- Promoting research projects about the situation of the
sector in diverse specific areas.
- Fomenting the creation of networks and improving the mechanisms
of communication and information among entities which operate
in the same area of activity.
- Designing programmes to sensitise and encourage volunteers
to be trained.
- Designing programmes that tend to improve the structures
and capacities of management of the non-profit organisations.
|
10.721.331
|
Fundación Luis Vives
|
Lucha contra la discriminación
(Objetivo 3)
|
The global grant will be dedicated to conceding small grants
to non-profit organisations. Their aim is the financing of
projects which contribute to the strengthening of the associative
network, basically:
- Supporting activities of training for volunteers.·
Designing programmes that support the professionalising
of the sector.
- Promoting research projects about the situation of the
sector in diverse specific areas.
- Fomenting the creation of networks and improving the mechanisms
of communication and information among entities which operate
in the same area of activity.
- Designing programmes to sensitise and encourage volunteers
to be trained.
- Designing programmes that tend to improve the structures
and capacities of management of the non-profit organisations.
|
9.994.000
|
Fundación Luis Vives
|
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for Operational Programmes 2000-2006
Financial
resources allocated to Spain for the European Social Fund
ALLOCATION OF E.S.F. AID - SPAIN ON THE BASIS OF
THE TYPES OF INTERVENTION AND OBJECTIVES
( in millions of euros)
TOTAL 11.916,760
| Types
of intervention |
Objective
1 |
Objective
2 |
Objective
3 |
| Regional Operational
Programmes |
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Andalusia |
932,500 |
- |
- |
| Asturias |
104,173 |
- |
- |
| Canary Islands |
274,500 |
- |
- |
| Cantabria |
33,302 |
- |
- |
| Castilla-La
Mancha |
242,202 |
- |
- |
| Castilla-León |
308,854 |
- |
- |
| Autonomous Region
of Valencia |
476,500 |
- |
- |
| Extremadura |
363,576 |
- |
- |
| Galicia |
391,998 |
- |
- |
| Murcia |
107,798 |
- |
- |
| Ceuta |
15,602 |
- |
- |
| Melilla |
10,199 |
- |
- |
|
Aragón
|
- |
- |
61,550
|
|
Baleares
|
- |
- |
31,625
|
|
Cataluña
|
- |
228,487 |
217,031
|
|
Madrid
|
- |
- |
233,8177
|
|
Navarra
|
- |
- |
65,060
|
|
Basque Country
|
- |
- |
222,645
|
|
La Rioja
|
- |
- |
14,154
|
| TOTAL |
3.261,206
|
228,487
|
845,888 |
|
Multiregional Operational Programmes
|
- |
- |
- |
|
Stimulate Employment
|
3.430,703
|
- |
804,713
|
|
Business Initiative and Permanent Training
|
1.553,953
|
- |
455,417
|
|
Measures against discrimination
|
203,977
|
- |
76,899
|
|
Vocational Training System
|
137,848
|
- |
38,134
|
|
Research, Development and Innovation
|
253,543
|
107,461
|
-
|
| Technical Assistance |
2,266
|
- |
0,7633
|
| TOTAL |
5.582,303
|
107,461
|
1.375,921 |
| TOTAL
OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMES |
8.843,508 |
335,948
|
2.221,810 |
| IC EQUAL |
515,494
|
|
|
TOTAL
11.916,760
Allocation
of ESF assistance between regional and multiregional programmes
| Program type |
Millons of euros
|
| Regional O.P.s |
4.335,581 |
| Pluri-regionales O.P.s. |
7.065,685 |
|
 |
Allocation
of ESF assistance on the basis of Objectives
 |
| Objective Type |
Millons of Euros |
| Objective 1 |
8.843,508 |
| Objective 2 |
335,948 |
| Objective 3 |
2.221,810 |
| I.C. Equal |
484,999 |
|
|
