Spending 2014-2020 stops at 41%
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Only imperceptible improvements: the latest monitoring by the State Accounting Office on the 2014-2020 cohesion policies shows that, at the end of February, payments relating to structural funds reached 61.7% of the value of the programs (between EU and national co-financing ) against 60.6% as at 31 December 2022. Much worse has been done in absolute terms in relation to the Development and Cohesion Fund, which contains national resources, even if there has been a certain acceleration in recent months. In this case the performance is 23.2% (16.8% the December figure) but the improvement is almost exclusively attributable to the interventions of the Municipalities for energy efficiency and sustainable development financed by the 2019 growth decree.
Adding up the two main strands, the European one and the FSC one, we arrive at a share of payments on programs equal to about 41 per cent. Slightly better than the 34% recorded in the latest report on the state of implementation of cohesion policy, published by the government on the basis of data as at 31 October 2022.
The data from the Accounting Office allow for a comparison of expenditure also by thematic objective of the programmes. It ranges from 93.6% of progress in research and innovation to 48% of interventions for environmental protection and efficient use of natural resources.
Returning to the Development and Cohesion Fund, there are items of intervention clearly lagging behind such as the “Grow in the South” Fund (2.7%), the various institutional development contracts (5%) and the interventions for social infrastructure in the South financed in the 2020 budget law (12.3%).
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