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One of the main premises of the preparation of the latest structural policy reform was the need to strengthen the economic and social cohesion of the European Union and to increase the competitiveness of its economy. In the result of admission of new members into the EU in 2004 and 2007 the disproportions in the level of the development of the Union's regions became greater. This made it necessary to increase outlays from the structural funds and from the Cohesion Fund on the financing of structural policy. Also, three new tasks of this policy were adopted: 1 - Convergence, 2 - Regional competitiveness and employment, and 3 - European territorial co-operation. In 2007-2013 the largest amounts from the EU budget will be allocated to the first of these tasks, that is Convergence. Poland will be the main beneficiary of assistance awarded from the structural funds and the Cohesion Fund. Judging by the experience of Ireland and Spain the use of this assistance in Poland and in other EU countries in 2007-2013 should contribute to the reduction of disproportions in the level of development between the group of new member-countries and the old 15 EU member-states.
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By joining the European Union Poland has obtained access to means available from the Union's structural funds and Cohesion Fund, which constitute the principal source of financing structural policy. Currently, there exist four structural funds: the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance. The most important task of the four funds is to support the restructuring and modernisation of the economies of the European Union's member-states. In the 2004-2006 period means from structural funds will be allocated in Poland to the implementation of five sectoral operational programmes, to the Integrated Regional Development Operational Programme (ZPORR) and to the Technical Assistance operational programme. The development of technical infrastructure and infrastructure serving environmental protection is supported, in turn, from the Cohesion Fund. However, the absorption of means from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund that have been awarded to Poland encounters a number of barriers. This calls for an urgent reform of the current, extremely complicated system of awarding assistance available from EU funds. Otherwise Poland will not be able to utilise the financial means awarded it from the EU budget and this will slow down the process of diminishing the difference in the level of economic development between Poland and the 'old' EU countries.
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As from May 1, 2004 the new member states of the European Union became covered by assistance financed from the organisation's general budget. The means for this assistance are drawn from structural funds (the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance) and the Cohesion Fund. In 2004-2006 the means available from the structural funds will be allocated in the EU's new member states mainly to the development of infrastructure, improvement in the quality of human resources and in the production environment. Means from the Cohesion Fund will be used in these countries for co-financing investment projects in the sphere of environmental protection and investments serving the construction of trans-European transport routes. The experience of the poorer EU countries (Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal) shows that the use of means coming from the EU budget contributes to growth in GDP, investment outlays and employment as well as to a decrease in the rate of unemployment, a rise in the level of education of the working population, etc. The use of means from the EU budget can be expected to lead to positive changes also in the new member states and help diminish the disproportion in the level of development of the new member states and that of the old fifteen EU countries.
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In 2007-2013 Poland will be the main beneficiary of structural assistance from the EU's general budget. The main sources of the financing of this assistance will be the structural funds (the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund) and the Cohesion Fund. Assistance means awarded to Poland will be used to finance the implementation of five national operational programmes, 16 regional operational programmes and European Territorial Co-operation Programmes. It is expected - basing on the experience of other EU member-states, especially Ireland, that the use of EU assistance in Poland will exert an influence on the improvement of basic macroeconomic indicators such as investments, employment, unemployment, productivity, foreign trade, etc. A synthetic expression of changes occurring in the Polish economy will be an increase in the rate of economic growth. The use of assistance funds should as a result help diminish the difference between the level of social-economic development in Poland and in the 'old' EU countries.
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