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2013
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vol. 58
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issue 4 (351)
60-77
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In the article, two cases are discussed considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union, related to the consequences for farmers that use EU funds when they prevent audit bodies to examine whether they meet the requirements of EU funds granting and utilisation. In her article, the author presents those judgements and she comments on the opinions formulated there by the Court of Justice of the EU.
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The paper assesses the participation of local institutions in providing assistance to farmers who apply for subsidies from EU funds in small-farm agriculture conditions. A firm majority of the surveyed farmers links the financial and economic situation of their farms and the opportunities and effectiveness of the utilisation of EU funding to the activities of local institutions, mainly such as the local agricultural advisory centres (ODRs). Thanks to training courses and direct consultations organised by the employees of ODRs with the purpose of providing help in preparing individual applications farmers from small-farm regions had no problems filling in their application forms. In the coming years farmers will be able to make use of measures offered them within the Rural Development Programme for 2007-2013. The preparation of farmers for this new period of programming is currently one of the most important challenges faced by local institutions, especially those providing advisory services.
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The article presents the current situation of the transportation system in Poland and discusses its possible development based on the EU funds. The Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment is one of the operational programmes scheduled for the years 2007-2013, which will be a basic tool for obtaining the targeted aims of competitiveness and improving investment attractiveness of our country while taking advantage of the funds provided by the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund. The financial support from the EU funds under the Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment can reach at the most 85% of the eligible costs. What is characteristic of the OP Infrastructure and Environment is the integrated approach to the issues of basic infrastructure, which comprises the technical infrastructure and basic components of the social infrastructure. Another important element of this programme is that it favours activities that will beneficially affect the natural environment. The Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment provides an opportunity to perform large transportation projects but requires much effort on behalf of the programme's beneficiaries.
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This paper presents some theoretical and practical problems of reporting for EU funds under the Human Capital Operational Programmer. In 2007, another seven-year-period of implementing cohesion policy, also concerning the EU Structural Funds, was launched. During this period a lot of firms will apply for EU funds. However, writing a correct application and receiving a grant does not in itself guarantee that the project will be properly reported.
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This article provides an attempt to show the importance of the Union non-repayable funds for financing public investments resulting from statutory obligations of local government entities. An analysis of own local government entities' revenue (including first of all the income which, according to the Act of Local Government Income, falls into the category of own income) indicates that local governments are not able to finance the development, modernization and regeneration investments of particular elements of public infrastructure, especially under conditions of the high capital-intensive nature of their realization. Hence, local government entities are looking for external sources of financing such investments. Yet, to ensure stability of the public finance system, there are statutory limitation within the scope of entity debts. Therefore, local governments are obliged to take advantage of those financial non-repayable sources. A source of this type means assets made available to Poland by the European Union within the scope of structural funds and the Cohesion Fund.
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The aim of the article is to point out that the implementation of the complementarity principle is one of the main tools for increasing the effectiveness of the realization of the region’s developmental objectives. The article is based on the assumption that complementarity, as one of the implementation tools, provides greater effectiveness and thus leads to the existence of synergy. At the same time, on the basis of the experience from the 2004–2006 and 2007–2013 programming periods, the effects of public intervention according to the integrated effectiveness concept has been examined. As a result of this analysis, the idea has been formulated that the development management in the region has a multi-threaded aspect, hence achieving an integrated effectiveness is possible taking into account different criteria and properly adapted tools. The test method used in the article is an analysis of the exisiting state. As a result, the thesis in question has been proven a solution has been proposed for the formulation of a new multicriteria model of integrated effectiveness.
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(Polish title: Efektywne wdrazanie polityki spojnosci - doswiadczenia dotychczasowych okresow programowania w wojewodztwie opolskim a nowa wizja Polityki Spojnosci po 2013 roku). The article raises that in discussing the future of the Cohesion Policy, an important argument is the effective use of EU funds by Poland from the previous programming periods, i.e., 2004-2006 and 2007-2013. The financial and material results obtained in the Opolskie voievodeship within the Integrated Regional Operational Programme for 2007-2013, and the Regional Operational Programme for the Opolskie voivodeship 2007-2013 have been analysed. It has been proven that, under both programmes, the region achieved significant successes, such as: within the RPO WO 2007-2013 in the competition for additional funds from the National Performance Reserve took the first place. This demonstrates the effectiveness of regional absorption. Effectiveness of this type should be recognized in the implementation system based on efficiency. The article attempts to prove that it is a sufficient argument, for the next programming period, to maintain, among others, the Cohesion Policy and the instrument of National Implementation Provisions.
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Of all the beneficiaries of EU funds in Poland, local self-government units implement projects with the highest value. In recent years, financial support from EU funds has been the basis for any investment expenditure by the country's local government entities. This paper presents the opinions of local government representatives on the functioning of the EU grant system, the existing and planned investments, as well as their readiness to use the EU funds in terms of personnel, organizational and financial status. The analysis was performed on the basis of results of a survey conducted among the local government units of Opolskie voivodeship.
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This paper examines the influence of European integration on the political and economical status of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. Our study tests (and partially challenges) the dominant trend in the current scholarship in European and transition studies that claims the decisive influence of the European Union on minority policy and ethnic relations in Slovakia. These studies looked only at the national political elite level and usually neglected the local elite level. Moreover, they examined only 'political conditionality' as the core strategy of the EU to promote 'respect for and protection of minorities'. Such an approach neglected a possible impact of the accession process on the economic status and the political mobilization of the ethnic minority in the mixed regions that could be stimulated by access to the EU accession (structural) funds. Therefore, we interviewed 31 political and social actors, representing ethnic Hungarians and Slovaks at the national and regional/local level (Kosice region), which had professional dealings with EU institutions, funds or representatives. The main aim of these in-depth, semi-structured interviews was to reveal their perceptions to get deeper understanding of possible changes induced by the EU accession process on the majority-minority relations in Slovakia. The paper generalizes respondents' perception of 'the EU impact' on: the majority-minority relations, the ethnic identity and socio-economic status. It argues that given the lack of an EU agenda and a special policy on minority protection beyond the vague Copenhagen criteria, effects of EU political conditionality in this field depends mostly on the organizational and political strength of respective minority, its articulation of demands, and on the coordinated action of the other international organizations. In Slovakia it empowered the Hungarian political elite and promoted the power-sharing arrangement at the national level (1998-2006) that used to be the most conflicting arena. Paradoxically, access to EU funds has also promoted cross border cooperation among ethnic Hungarians in both Hungary and Slovakia, and did not (yet) affects the traditional patterns of cooperation and competition among the ethnic Slovaks and Hungarians in Slovakia.
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