Analysis of the budgetary implementation of the European structural and investment funds in 2016

This report covers the programming periods 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. For the 2007-2013 programming period, the implementation report deals with all the funds under Heading 1b 'Cohesion policy' of the financial framework: ERDF, ESF and the Cohesion Fund. For the 2014-2020 programming period, the report deals with the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds, namely ERDF, CF, ESF (including the YEI specific allocation), EAFRD and EMFF. It also covers the FEAD which is part of Heading 1b but it is not an ESI Fund. The report does not cover the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) of Heading 2 'Natural resources' of the financial framework 2007-2013, which were not Structural Funds during that programming period.