The results of an EPRC research study on performance management in multi-level governance systems, and the lessons for the future of Cohesion policy, were presented at a seminar in Brussels and an international Hungarian EU Presidency conference in Budapest.
The aim of the study, commissioned by DG Regio, and led by Dr Martin Ferry and Professor John Bachtler, was to benchmark Cohesion policy against other economic development policies that use shared management systems, to assess the use of performance management (especially use of conditionalities) and assurance systems, and to identify lessons for EU Cohesion policy. The study, conducted over the 2010-11 period, involved case study research in 10 OECD countries (Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom) and in three international financial institutions (the EBRD, EIB and the World Bank).
The final report of the study was presented to a European Commission seminar, held in DG Regio, by Martin Ferry on 29th March 2011. The key messages of the study were also presented by John Bachtler in an invited plenary paper to the High-Level Meeting on the Future of Cohesion Policy organised by the Hungarian Government, as part of its EU Presidency, in Budapest on 31 March-1 April 2011.