The cohesion categorisation system is used to collect detailed financial information on 8 dimensions of support by fund and category of region. It contributes to the assessment of its intervention rationale and allows the monitoring of investment progress, climate action and much more.

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This dataset provides the metadata for the cohesion policy categorisation system coming essentially from the Common provisions regulation Annex I.

Read this data story for more context: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/hhu3-atyz

2021-2027 financial details broken down by Fund / MS / programme / Policy objective / specific objective / Categorisation dimension.
This dataset provides information on planned total and EU financing for 11 different EU Funds (2021-2027) in current prices.

The data is taken from multiple categorisation tables in adopted programmes and is broken down by fund, programme, priority, policy objective objective, specific objective, category of region (more developed, less developed, etc. where available) and by the dimensions in the categorisation system. The values from the differnent dimensions should not be aggregated as this would lead to doublecounting. Find out more about the cohesion policy categorisation system here: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/2021-2027-categorisation-information-system/hhu3-atyz.

It is updated daily to reflect any modifications (i.e. thematic reallocations) agreed between the Member States and the Commission.

The data covers the more than 480 programmes and includes the EU and national co-financing covered by the adoption decision. Financial allocations in the adopted programmes may change over time (i.e. transfers between themes, between funds).

For ERDF, ESF and CF the "priority" columns relate financing envelopes in the programmes; the policy objectives and specific objectives relate to the fixed lists of defined objectives set in the specific fund Regulations.

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 the charts on the public platform. Please refer to the user guide - https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/Cohesion-Open-Data-User-Guide/cf5w-2b26 - for information on how to download data, etc.

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Under Cohesion Policy 2021-2027, EUR 12.5 billion of investment is planned for circular economy and waste management, of which EUR 8.6 billion comes from EU funding. Use the interactive charts on this page to explore the planned investments by fund, country and type of action.

2021-2027 financial details planned broken down by categorisation dimensions and by specific objectives

This dataset offers an indicative correspondence between 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 intervention fields. NB: this mapping is indicative and not official. It can be used to estimate financial allocations and compare investment strategies.

Please note that there is no one to one equivalence between 2021-2027 and 2014-2020 intervention fields, and some 2021-2027 intervention fields have no equivalent in the previous programming period. On the other hand, several intervention fields have more than one possible equivalence. These are listed as 2014-2020 intervention fields 1, 2,and 3.

For more information on the 2014-2020 categorisation system and intervention fields, check the story: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/What-How-Where-Understanding-cohesion-policy-inves/9p23-f5s9
For more information on the 2021-2027 categorisation system and intervention fields, check the story: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/stories/s/2021-2027-categorisation-information-system/hhu3-atyz

2021-2027 financial details broken down by Fund / MS / programme / Policy objective / specific objective / Categorisation dimension

This file contains "categorisation data" from the ERDF/ESF programmes using REACT-EU as adopted (including modifications). The data is in current prices. It is regularly updated to reflect reprogramming notified by the programmes.

The data is provided in tables, one for each priority axis (investment pillar), for each specific programme. The categorisation system is defined in Implementing Regulation 215/2014 with 8 dimensions - 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 4 dimensions were encoded for ERDF/ Cohesion Fund while 5 dimensions were encoded for ESF and can be found in the dataset. In analysing the content of the dataset the different dimension should be analysed separately - **NEVER AGGREGATE VALUES ACROSS DIMENSIONS** as otherwise double counting of the financial amounts will occur.

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" weightings and a similar weighting system for "biodiversity tracking".

The Intervention field dimension is the most complete of the the different dimensions in terms of financial coverage.

The total investments under other dimension may vary for different reasons (i.e. Technical assistance priority axes are not encoded in all dimensions, etc.)

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 with the pre-formatted charts profiled on this metadata page under “featured content”.