Related links to ECO/495

European Commission

• Annual Growth Survey 2019: For a stronger Europe in the face of global uncertainty (COM(2018) 770 final)
• European Semester 2019: Communication on Country Reports (COM (2019) 150 final)
• A Modern Budget for a Union that Protects, Empowers and Defends. The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027, COM (2018) 321 final
• Annex to the Communication A Modern Budget for a Union that Protects, Empowers and Defends. The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027, COM (2018) 321 final
• Factsheet – The EU budget and the Economic and Monetary Union, May 2018
• Common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and financial rules for those, COM (2018) 375 final
• Annexes to common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and financial rules for those, COM (2018) 375 final
• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund, COM (2018) 372 final
• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), COM (2018) 382 final
• Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the Reform Support Programme, COM (2018) 391 final
• Reflection Paper "Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030", COM (2019) 22 final
• Annexes to the Reflection paper "Towards a sustainable Europe by 2030", COM (2019) 22 final
• Impact Assessment. Accompanying the document Proposals for a Regulation on the Cohesion Fund on a mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context on specific provisions for the European territorial cooperation goal (Interreg) supported by the European Regional Development Fund and external financing instruments, SWD (2018) 282 final

European Parliament

• European Parliament legislative resolution on Common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and financial rules for those (P8_TA-PROV(2019)0096)
• Amendments adopted by the European Parliament on16 January 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund Plus (COM(2018)0382 –C8-0232/2018 –2018/0206(COD))
• European Parliament resolution of 13 March 2019 on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2019 (P8_TA-PROV(2019)0201)
• Opinion of the Committee on Regional Development for the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the Reform Support Programme, Rapp. Ms Iskra Mihaylova (2018)
• EP Briefing: Country-specific recommendations: An overview, Sept 2018
• Report on strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union: the 7th report of the European Commission (2017/2279(INI)), Committee on Regional Development, Rapp. Mr Marc Joulaud

Committee of the Regions

• ECON-VI/040 – The European semester and cohesion policy: aligning structural reforms with long-term investments, rapp. Mr Rob Jonkman
• Delivering reforms, investments and cohesion: How to make the European Semester work (Workshop of the ECON, 2018)
• COTER-VI/042 – The Multiannual Financial Framework package for the years 2021-2027, rapp. Mr Nikola Dobroslavić (2018)
• COTER-VI/045 – Common Provisions Regulation, rapp. Ms Catiuscia Marini and Mr Michael Schneider (2018)
• RESOL-VI/29 – Resolution on changing the ESI funds Common Provisions Regulation to support structural reforms (2018)
• ECON-VI/037 – The Reform Support Programme and European Investment Stabilisation Function, rapp. Ms Olga Zrihen (2018)
• ECON-VI/031 –  The amendment of the Structural Reform Support Programme and new budgetary instruments for the euro area, rapp. Ms Olga Zrihen (2018)
• ECON-VI/019 – Improving the governance of the European Semester: a Code of Conduct for the involvement of local and regional authorities, rapp. Mr Rob JONKMAN (2017)

Council

• European Semester - Synthesis report 2019 (Note to delegations, 2019)
• Preparation of the Competitiveness Council on 18-19 February 2019 European Semester - Exchange of views (Note to Permanent Representatives Committee/Council, 2019)

Other organisations

• Strengthening cohesion in the EU: How can structural reforms contribute? (European Policy Centre, 2018)
• Future links between structural reforms and EU cohesion policy (European Policy Centre, 2018, requested by the European Parliament)
• The European Court of Auditors (ECA), opinion on the 2021-2027 Common Provisions Regulation, 2018
• How to further strengthen the European Semester?  (European Policy Centre, 2017, requested by the European Parliament)
• ETUC position on the European Commission proposal for the EU budget 2021-2027 (ETUC, 2018)
• Reform Support Programme 2021-2027 (European Parliament Research Service, 2019)
• Post-2020 MFF and own resources. Ahead of the Commission's proposal (European Parliament Research Service, 2018)
• Challenges for EU cohesion policy. Issues in the forthcoming post-2020 reform (European Parliament Research Service, 2017)
• The European Union’s experiences with policy conditionalities (OECD, 2017)