Investment spending under the European Structural and Investment Funds for 2014-2020 doubled from 28% by the end of 2018 to 56% by the end of 2020. Find out more.

This dataset provides information on expected achievements (targets) set for ERDF and Cohesion Fund programmes **specific indicators** defined by national and regional programmes, the decided (forecasts from selected projects) and implemented values.

The reference date for the annual reporting of progress by the programmes achievements is the end of each calendar year.
This dataset contains:
- Time series of the cumulative amounts reported annually for decided and implemented values (i.e. 2016 values include the 2015 values);
- To avoid double counting, the cumulative values from different years **should NOT be aggregated**;
- Allows comparison of the targets year on year (targets change with reallocation of financial resources);
- Allows comparison of decided (forecast) and implemented values with the targets set (allowing users to calculate the % rate of progress);

For more information on the common indicators' definitions used by each fund please go to the "Related Information" sections at the bottom of the fund specific pages and the data on the **common indicators** is available in this separate dataset: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/2014-2020/ESIF-2014-2020-Achievement-Details/aesb-873i

ESIF 2014-2020 Financial Plans (daily update) by country, operational programme, fund, category of region and year.
For more information on the legal basis for ESI Funds 2014-2020, see:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/legislation/regulations/

The annual financial plan by fund provides:
- the planned EU annual "main" commitment amount;
- the performance reserve commitment amount;
- broken down by programme (for all ESI funds);
- broken down by "category of region" for each ESF and ERDF "Investment for Growth and Jobs" programme (not available for other funds or programmes)

This file contains categorisation data from the ERDF/ESF/Cohesion Fund programmes and in particular it compares **PLANNED AMOUNTS TO IMPLEMENTED INVESTMENTS**.
The data will be updated regularly to reflect updated information transmitted.

***NEW*** 03/2020 - The Commission's COVID-19 response in 2020 involves encouraging reprogramming unallocated EU budget towards the COVID-19 health response and support to the economy, particularly through supporting SMEs and workers. Check out these data stories based on this dataset:
- HEALTH: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/In-profile-cohesion-policy-improving-health-servic/qyuv-h9j2
- SMEs: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/An-Economy-that-works-for-people-Cohesion-Policy-s/n4ee-2h83

***NEW*** 12/2018 - CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY TRACKING: In December 2018 the calculation of amounts planned, decided and spend on categorisation codes (weighted 100% and 40%) for climate tracking and biodiversity tracking were added to the dataset to allow full transparency on how investment under these tracking systems are progressing. Specially designed charts providing visualisations on these tracking systems are linked to the dataset below.

***NEW*** 12/2018 - OPERATIONS (projects) SELECTED: Also in December 2018 the number of operations (projects) linked to each categorisation value reported by priority axis is reflected in the dataset. In many cases programmes provide detailed categorisation information, reporting more than one intervention field code for a specific operation. While leading to more detailed thematic information it leads to multiple reporting of some operations.

TIMING AND FREQUENCY: The categorisation system implementation values are reported once a year by the 350+ programmes at end January. It is then published in this dataset towards the end of February. Thereafter the data is updated regularly to reflect the updated information transmitted by the programmes.
This dataset currently contains data to end-2016 and end- 2017. As the data is cumulative the **ANNUAL VALUES SHOULD NOT BE AGGREGATED *** but may be compared to see progress.

STRUCTURE OF DATASET:
The planned data is provided in tables one for each priority axis (investment pillar) of each programme. The categorisation systems is defined in Implementing Regulation 215/2014 with 8 dimensions in total - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32014R0215.
These dimension represent different ways of categorising the nature of the EU support (i.e. the intervention (activity) field, the form of finance, the territorial context, etc.).
In the programme documents only four4 dimensions were encoded for ERDF/ Cohesion Fund while five5 dimensions were encoded for ESF and can be found in the dataset. Data on three3 other dimensions is only provided in the implementation reports - Location, Economic Dimension, ERDF/CF Thematic Objective - and therefore there is no planned amount to compare.
In analysing the content of the dataset **THE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS SHOULD BE ANALYSED SEPARATELY AS OTHERWISE DOUBLE COUNTING OF FINANCIAL AMOUNTS WILL OCCUR**.
This information note provides more detail on the categorisation system 2014-2020: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/informat/2014/guidance_categorisation_climate_en.pdf

ANALYSING THEMATIC CONTENT AND PROGRESS: A second dataset found here - https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/EU-Level/ESIF-2014-2020-Categorisation-Crosscutting-Themes-/xns4-t7ym - provides a lookup table for understanding how the Commission uses the intervention field codes to look at cross cutting issues such as investments in "innovation", "enterprise support", etc. That "lookup" dataset also has the "climate change tracking" and "biodiversity tracking" weightings.

The report compares immediate and longer-term direct results with outputs achieved in the ESF programmes. For example, the number of ‘participants in employment’ is divided by the number of unemployed plus the number of inactive participants. The resulting percentage tells the share of participants who obtained a particular type of result, measured by a common indicator. The types of results are
• job-search (CR01,compared to the number of inactive participants),
• being in education or training (CR02, compared to the total of participants),
• gaining a qualification (CR03, compared to the total of participants),
• in employment (CR04, compared to unemployed+inactive) and
• a combination of all the above positive outcomes (CR01+CR02+CR03+CR04, compared to the total of participants), moreover,
• in employment 6 months after leaving (CR06, compared to unemployed+inactive),
• improved labour market situation 6 months after leaving (CR07, compared to employed) and finally
• participants above 54 years of age in employment 6 months after leaving (CR08, compared to unemployed+inactive).
The output, the number of participants includes persons who were still receiving support at the time of reporting and persons who dropped out of the operations before completion. If the comparison with the results was made only by taking into account the participants who complete the operation, the success rates would be higher. (The number of participants who complete the operation is not reported though.)
The report provides the success rates for all ESF operational programmes (CCIs) and priority axes at the level of the investment priority, broken down by category of region. Data on ESF common result indicators are taken from Tables 2A and 2B; data on ESF common output indicators are taken from Table 4A of the annual implementation reports.

Explore the data at national and programme level using interactive charts.

As part of the CRII/CRII+ package, at the request of a country, the expenditure declared in 2020-2021 accounting exercise could be financed 100% by EU resources. This option of 100% European co-financing is one of the most popular measures with the majority of modified programmes making use of this possibility.

The data below shows the number modified programmes with 100% EU co-financing in relation to the total number of cohesion policy programmes by country (TC = Interreg programmes). The table also counts the total number of priority exes (investments envelopes) and the number with 100% EU cofinancing.