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The Structural Funds 2021-2027 include 5 priorities or Policy Objectives (POs): 1. A smarter/competitive Europe, 2. A greener/resilient/low-emission Europe, 3. A more connected Europe, 4. A more social Europe, 5. A closer Europe, plus allocations for technical assistance to programs. They are indicated by an Arabic number (1 to 5).ERDF programming includes a sub-objective under priority 2 (a greener Europe) related to mobility. ESF+ programming addresses only priority 4 (a more social Europe) by declining it into five sub-priorities: Employment, Education and Training, Social Inclusion, Innovative Social Actions, Youth Employment.The 2021-2027 Structural Funds then provide:
- more than 40 specific objectives, which represent a declination of the strategic objectives and are normally indicated by a Roman numeral (i, ii, iii, etc.)
- 182 focus areas, each of which can be associated with any one strategic and specific objective. They are numbered with a consecutive code (001 to 182).
“TA” indicates technical assistance objectives and activities.
There is also a common framework of indicators, the elements of which are taken up within the planning documents (RCO codes for Output indicators, RCR for Result indicators).
Rural funds (EAFRD), on the other hand, are organized into 10 areas, which are in turn divided into a hundred or so more specific intervention items: SRA (environment and climate), SRB (natural constraints), SRC (mandatory requirements), SRD (investment), SRE (youth), SRF (risk management), SRG (cooperation), SRH (knowledge exchange), TR (transition spending), AT (technical assistance) and RRN (national rural network).