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2014 | 2020EU BUDGETS

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Global Europe

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Security & Citizenship

€ 199.828

€ 959.988in current prices: € 1.082.555

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The five European Structural and Investment Funds;

| The European Regional Development Fund

| The European Social Fund

| The Cohesion Fund

| The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

| The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

ESI FUNDSTHE 5

| EU Member States are required to draw up and implement

strategic plans with investment priorities covering the five ESI

Funds.

| These Partnership Agreements (PAs) are negotiated between the

European Commission and national authorities, following their

consultation of various levels of governance, representatives from

interest groups, civil society and local

and regional representatives.

AGREEMENTSPARTNERSHIP

The designated areas are sparsely populated areas with a total

population of 1.171 million, or 12.26% of Sweden's population.

| The maximum level of aid that can be granted to investment projects

carried out by large companies is 15% of total investment costs.

| For investments carried out by SMEs, these percentages can be

increased.

AID PERCENTAGESMAXIMUM

While the population coverage is slightly lower than in the previous

aid map (by around 3 percentage points, or 200 000 inhabitants),

the overall aid intensities have remained the same or in some

cases even increased (15% aid intensity instead of 10% in Västra

Götaland).

| This is in line with the objectives of the new regional aid guidelines, which

aim at focusing support on the disadvantaged regions of Europe.

AID PERCENTAGESMAXIMUM

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Countries have

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adopted:21 OP >Denmark

1 OP >Lithuania

| Partnership Agreement Adopted 29 – 10 – 2014

| 12 Operational Programme’s submitted

| Adoption of OP’s by European commission in Q4 2014

| Exp.1st grant calls Q1 2015 for funding priorities related to OP’s

OPs should be submitted by Member States within 3 months following the

submission of the Partnership Agreement.

The Commission makes observations within 3 months and adopts the OP

no later than 6 months from the date of its submission.

PLANNING

Sweden focusses on the following priorities strongly linked to the

Europe 2020 objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth:

| Foster competitiveness, knowledge and innovation;

| Strengthen sustainable and efficient use of resources for growth;

| Increase employment, promote employability and improve access to the

labor market.

These three priorities are tied to ten thematic objectives that are to ensure

that actions under the four funds will address specific challenges and help

Sweden achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy.

PRIORITIESFUNDING

The European Regional Development FundThe ERDF allocation for Sweden is approximately € 945 million.

| 31% of the allocation will support actions under the thematic objective "Support to SMEs", | 28 % the thematic objective "Research and innovation", | 18% the thematic objective "Low-carbon economy", | 10% the thematic objective "ICT" and | 8% the thematic objective "Transport and infrastructures.

The managing authority for the 9 ERDF programmeswill be the same as in the previous period

ALLOCATIONSFINANCIAL

European Social Fund

| The ESF allocation for Sweden is € 774 million, plus a specific Youth

Employment Initiative (YEI) allocation of € 44 million for three of Sweden's

eight NUTS 2 regions.

| The ESF allocation is 45 percent of the allocation for the Structural

Funds, up from 42.5 percent in the earlier period.

ALLOCATIONSFINANCIAL

The European Agricultural Fund for Rural DevelopmentThe EAFRD allocation to Sweden is € 1763 million.

| The EAFRD will allow support to increase the level of expertise of farmers

and other enterprises in rural areas as well as the cooperation between

businesses.

| This increase can lead to business developments, more enterprises in

rural areas, the strengthening of competitiveness and attractiveness in the

form of more favourable conditions for the development of rural areas.

ALLOCATIONSFINANCIAL

European Maritime and Fisheries FundThe total EMFF allocation for Sweden is € 119.5 million.

| The main objective is to support the implementation of the Common

Fisheries Policy reform, thereby ensuring a sustainable development of

fisheries and aquaculture.

| This includes, for example, support to the development of selective

fishing gears and environmentally friendly production methods and

promotion of the protection of the marine environment.

ALLOCATIONSFINANCIAL

The ERDF will be implemented through one national and eight

regional operational programmes (OPs).

The ESF will be implemented through one national OP for ESF and the extra allocation from the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI).

Moreover, there will be one EAFRD and one EMFF programme. The three latter operational programmes will have subordinated regional action plans. In addition, there will be one multi-fund programme for Community Lead Local Development (CLLD)2 which will be supported from ERDF and ESF.

ARCHITECTUREPROGRAMME

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THEMATIC OBJECTIVE& BY FUNDALLOCATION BROKEN DOWN BY

FUNDING PRIORITIES