Participation of the ENP countries in the European Union programmes

08.01.2016

Participation of ENP partners in EU programmes and agencies is a mean to promote reform and modernisation in the EU’s neighbourhood and strengthen administrative and regulatory convergence of partner countries with the EU.

Recently EU programmes were reviewed in the context of preparing the new EU budget, with a view to launching new EU programmes for 2014-2020. A number of these programmes offer the possibility of some form of participation of ENP countries.

In this light, the EEAS and the Directorate General for Development and cooperation organised an information meeting on the participation of ENP partners in the 2014-2020 EU programmes, which was held in Brussels on the 3rd of December 2013.

The meeting gave an overview of the content of the new programmes which are open to some form of participation of ENP countries, and of the conditions for participation. Both programmes which are open to full participation of the ENP countries provided that the country has concluded an enabling Protocol to its agreement with the EU, as well as programmes offering ENP partners the possibility of participation in certain activities without signing such protocol were presented

Asylum and Migration Fund

Copernicus

European Earth Observation Programme

COSME

Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs

Creative Europe

Culture and Audio-visual Programme

Customs 2020

Functioning and modernisation of the Customs Union

Erasmus +

Higher Education and Youth

European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

European Statistical Programme

Development, production and dissemination of European statistics

European Territorial Cooperation

Cross border, transnational and interregional programmes

Fiscalis 2020

European cooperation between Tax administrations

Galileo and EGNOS Programmes

Positioning, Search and Rescue services

Health for Growth

Improving people's health and reducing health inequalities