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.

The definitions set by Commission guidance - https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/2014/working/guidance_monitoring_eval_en.pdf - for the common indicators used in 2014-2020.

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 dataset presents information on EU payments to the Regional Policy supported programmes.
Annual snapshots are provided in the data and therefore the data must be filtered by year to have an accurate view of the total EU planned amount and payments made.
Data is reported on cumulative basis, i.e. the amounts shown in 2017 represent the cumulative payments made from the beginning of the programming period (2014-2017 up to date).
The dataset is updated on a daily basis.

This dataset includes the figures by Fund (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund,Youth Employment Initiative).

This dataset provides cumulative financial information on the different "financial Instruments" supported by each specific ESI Fund programme, for each year of implementation.

Financial instruments are an array of (mainly) repayable forms of financial support used under the ESI Funds to deliver public investment. Those forms of financial support include equity, loans and guarantees. More information on the use of financial instruments under the ESI Funds is presented on this website http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/financial-instruments/ . There you will also find the "Annual Summaries of Data" prepared each year, which provide a description of the data as presented at a particular cut-off date.

This dataset presents information notified annually to the Commission by the national and regional programmes on the different financial instruments (fund of funds or specific funds) under the ESI Funds. This dataset will be updated regularly in order to show any corrections notified by the programmes during the quality checks and finalisation of the annual reports. For that reason the dataset may have more updated data than contained in the "Annual Summaries of Data".

In querying the dataset be aware of the following:
- The dataset presents cumulative values to the 31 December of each reference year, for multiple years (i.e. the 2018 value includes values already reported in 2017 and 2016). Therefore the values for different years **SHOULD NOT** be aggregated, but may be compared to see implementation progress;
- To calculate the total volume of financial instruments, aggregate only the values for "fund of funds" and "specific funds" in the column "FI type" ("Fund of fund specific funds" are a subset of the Funds of Funds);
- Given that (1) some financial instruments are funded by more than one programme and priority axis or measure and (2) there is separate reporting for each "fund of fund specific fund" under each "fund of fund", the number of rows in the dataset does not represent the total number of instruments but rather the total number of specific contributions from a priority axis of the operational programme (or measure in case of EAFRD).

In relation to guarantees,
- In column 'Total amount of programme contributions committed to final recipients', the amounts correspond to the amount of the programme contributions blocked (committed) in guarantee contracts signed, irrespective whether the loan was disbursed or not to final recipient;
- In the column 'Total amount of programme contributions paid to final recipients', the amounts correspond to the amount of the programme contributions blocked (committed) in guarantee contracts signed for loans which were disbursed to final recipients; irrespective whether the guarantee was called or not. In case of portfolio guarantees the amount is a portion of guarantee committed for loans paid to final recipients (in line with the multiplier ratio according to specific rules on guarantees delivered through financial instruments of Article 8 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 480/2014).

This dataset provides information on planned total and EU financing under the different ESI Funds (2014-2020) in current prices. The data is taken from the adopted financial tables and is broken down by fund, programme, priority axis, thematic objective and category of region (more developed, less developed, etc. where available). It is updated daily to reflect any modifications (i.e; thematic reallocations) agreed between the Member States and the Commission.

The data cover the more than 530 programmes and includes the EU and national co-financing covered by the adoption decision. Financial allocations in the programme financial table may change over time (i.e. transfers between themes, between funds). The first wave of major changes took place at end 2017 as a result of the allocation of the "technical adjustment" and the increase in the allocation to the Youth Employment initiative.

- For ERDF, ESF and CF the "priority" columns relate to the priority axis (financing blocks) in the programmes; the "investment priority" relates to the fixed lists of defined investment objectives set in the three specific fund Regulations.
- For the European Agricultural fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) detail is also provided by EAFRD "Focus areas" and "Measures" (the EAFRD Focus Areas are detailed in the EAFRD fund regulation - Article 5 and the EAFRD measures in Article 13-40 of the relevant Implementing Regulation).

If downloading, check the format of financial amounts and where necessary change your regional settings and default formatting in your chosen software. You can check the results of your aggregation of the financial data by comparing results either with (1) the charts on the public platform or (2) with the pre-formatted charts profiled on this metadata page under “featured content”.

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.