Period 1994-1999: Community financing managed by the DFG

	This section aims to delve deeper into the analysis of community aid received by Gipuzkoa during the period 1986-1999 and that is managed by the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa both for actions promoted by the DFG itself and by Gipuzkoa municipalities. To this aim, the analysis will be broken down into the three sub-periods commented on before: subperiod 1986-1988,	subperiod 1989-1993 and subperiod 1994-1999.Community financing directly obtained and managed by city halls is not taken into account.

	In the period 1994-1996, the global funding that Gipuzkoa receives approaches 17,000 million pesetas, concretely 17,063.5 million pesetas. Of this amount, 7,290.4 million pesetas (43%) correspond to the ERDF (with 6,376.1 million for projects managed by the DFG and 914.3 million pesetas for projects managed by Gipuzkoa municipalities); 4,410.9 million (26%) correspond to the ESF, 1,347.2 million pesetas (8%) are Community Initiatives (including innovative actions), while 4,015 million pesetas (23%) correspond to the Cohesion Fund.

Table 4.9. Global Funding (1994-1999) (1)

(million ptas.)

Period

Objetive 2

Obj.
3

Com.
Inic.
(2)

City Halls

COHESION FUND

Total
94-99

ERDF

ESF

ESF

ERDF

ESF

Com.
Inic.

94-96

3.137,4

840,6

979,7

501,9

473,0

143,2

11,1

1.375,0

7.461,9

97-99

3.238,7

981,3

1.192,9

815,3

441,3

273,2

18,9

2.640,0

9.601,6

TOTAL

6.376,1

1.821,9

2.172,6

1317,2

914,3

416,4

30,0

4.015,0

17.063,5

(1) Does not include objective 5b, or FEOGA
(2) Includes innovative actions
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Financing received through the ERDF (1994-1999)

Financing received by Gipuzkoa through the ERDF in the period 1994-1999 is, in turn, subdivided into the subperiods 1994-1996 and 1997-1999, due to being linked to the two BCOPs existing during those years. Global ERDF funding for the whole period 1994-1999 is in turn broken down under two headings: projects managed by the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa (DFG) and projects managed by Gipuzkoa municipalities.

With respect to the projects managed by the DFG, funding amounts to 6,376.1 million pesetas, which is distributed over six action axes.

Axis 1: Support for employment and the competitiveness of firms:
Through this axis, support for incubators and company centres and innovation is financed, the policy of industrial infrastructure is supported (industrial complexes, entrepreneurial centre), companies are technologically supported and investment in environment is encouraged. The total amount is 1,854.7 million pesetas.

Axis 2: Protection of environment:
This axis includes environmental urban actions, rehabilitation of degraded physical spaces, management of industrial waste, construction of sewers and different infrastructures necessary for classifying, separating and recovering packaging and packaging waste. The total comes to 870.7 million pesetas.

Axis 3: Development of research, technology and innovation:
This axis supports generic research projects developed by Tutored Technological Centres, sectorial centres and university-based research units. Funding amounts to 721.3 million pesetas.

Axis 4: Development of the transportation network and highway infrastructures :
This axis supports the construction of a series of highways: widening and improving CN-634, CN-1 ring-road in Etxegarate, GI-131 ring-road in Hernani, Ibarra
ring-road, link of GI-131 (Martutene) to A8 (Intxaurrondo). Total funding comes to 1,390 million pesetas.

Axis 5: Local and urban development:
The DFG action in water treatment is significantly co-financed: Txingudi Bay, Pasajes Bay, Oria basin, Urola basin, Deba basin. In the period 1997-1999 this axis is to change. Water treatment actions will fall under axis 2, leaving this axis 5 for other actions among which it is worth mentioning cultural and community facilities and concretely the Kursaal project. The overall figure is 1,482.7 million pesetas.

Axis 6: Technical assistance:
This axis supports different actions to support local tourism and internationalisation of the economy. This axis finances a total of 56.7 million pesetas.

Table 4.10. BCOP: Objective 2 (ERDF) Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa

(million ptas.)

ACTION AXES	94-96	97-99	TOTAL
1. Supporting employment and com-petitiveness	1.156,6	698,1	1.854,7
2. Protection for environment	244,0	626,7	870,7
3. Development of research	266,8	454,5	721,3
4. Development of transport network	345,3	1.044,7	1.390,0
5. Local and urban development	1.124,7	358,0	1.482,7
6. Technical assistance	0,0	56,7	56,7
TOTAL	3.137,4	3.238,7	6.376,1

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For Gipuzkoa municipalities, global financing received amounts to 914.3 million pesetas. The main actions are supported in three action axes:

Axis 1. Support for employment and competitiveness of companies:
Actions centred on industrial infrastructure: reurbanisation of the Txirrita-Maleo industrial complex, Apatta Erreka industrial complex, the industrial complexes of Eibar, Irun and Zarautz, the Goierri service centre. Financing amounts to 476.5 million pesetas.

Axis 2: Protection of environment:
Actions centred on rehabilitating degraded physical spaces: Landeta sewer. Funding amounted to 20.5 million pesetas.

Axis 3: Local and urban development:
Under this heading, the following actions were supported: Kursaal project, Villa de Renteria culture centre, Zumarraga culture centre, Lenbur "Camino del Hierro" project (Legazpi), museum and crafts centre of Leintz Gatzaga, refurbishing the left bank of the Urola River, recovery of riparian area and leisure area of the Bidasoa River. Funding amounts to 417.3 million pesetas.

Table 4.11. BCOP: Objective 2 (ERDF) Gipuzkoa Municipalities

(million ptas.)

ACTION AXES	94-96	97-99	TOTAL
1. Support for employment and com-petitiveness	278,7	197,8	476,5
2. Protection of environment		20,5	20,5
5. Local and urban development	194,3	223,0	417,3
TOTAL	473, 0	441,3	914,3

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Financing received through the ESF (1994-1999)

The financing that Gipuzkoa receives through the ESF falls under two great headings: funding through objective 2 which amounts to 1,821.9 million pesetas and funding through objective 3 with 2,589 million pesetas.

Within objective 2, funding is structured around two action axes: a first axis supports employment and competitiveness with aid to the amount of 1,631.6 million pesetas, of which, 1,373.6 are destined to recycling the employed, 138.7 million pesetas to recycling unemployed and 119.3 million pesetas to complementary measures (training trainers and others).

A second axis revolves around research and development. Concretely, 190.3 million pesetas are dispensed in R & D grants. This action has supported graduate fellows for developing projects.

Table 4.12. BCOP: Objective 2 (ESF)

(million ptas.)

ACTION AXES	94-96	97-99	TOTAL
1. Supporting employment and competi-tiveness Recycling the employed Recycling the unemployed Complementary measures	655,5 60,4 47,6	718,1 78,3 71,7	1.373,6 138,7 119,3
2. Developing research R & D grants	77,1	113,2	190,3
TOTAL	840,6	981,3	1.821,9

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Regarding financing obtained from the ESF via objective 3, the amount comes to 2,589 million pesetas, distributed over four great action axes.

Long-term unemployed (LTU):
Funding amounts to 865.9 million pesetas. The objectives sought are: professional insertion and the fostering of employment for the active population of Gipuzkoa. This is pursued through two lines of action: a first line called 'integral actions' (guidance, work information, specific training and remunerated work experience actions), and a second line of experience programmes; that is, contracts that provide work experience.

Insertion of unemployed youth:
Funding received amounts to 359.4 million pesetas. The objective is to carry out training actions targeting unemployed youth that have finished their studies and have trouble finding employment.

Three different levels of action have been developed for this collective taking into account their levels of qualification and employability:

one, for youth with significant professional qualifications, support mobility of the students by means of grants to study abroad and thus facilitate their insertion into the labour market,
two, for youth with special difficulties to find employment, integral actions to provide guidance, work information, specific training and remunerated work experience and
three, for youth lacking previous work experience, experience programmes; that is, contracts that provide work experience.

Integration of people threatened to be excluded from the labour market:
With funding of 1,342.3 million pesetas, the objective is to respond to the individ-ual needs for training and insertion that arise from the process of adaptation of persons with some type of disability (physical, sensorial or psychological) to the world of work. That is, an action that attends to the needs and demands of the local labour market to facilitate levels of labour and professional insertion for one of the collectives that have most difficulty (under equal opportunities) to take up their places in the labour market.

Equal opportunities for women and men:
The amount of financing is 21.4 million pesetas, and the objective is to facilitate equal opportunities among women and men through training actions targeting the collective of women and which has fundamentally focused on two types of actions: one, women with previous work experience that seek to return to the labour market; and, two, the incorporation of women into new professions and, therefore, without a tradition of sex-based discrimination.

Table 4.13. Basque Country Operational Programme:
Objective 3 (ESF) Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa

(million ptas.)

ACTION AXES	94-96	97-99	TOTAL
1. Long Term Unemployed Occupational training Aid for employment Technical assistance	76,0 176,4 66,1	74,6 140,0 332,8	150,6 316,4 398,9
2. Unemployed youth Occupational training Aid for employment	61,1 123,5	98,7 76,1	159,8 199,6
3. Integration of persons FP Ocupacional	604,5	737,8	1.342,3
4. Equal opportunities Occupational training	15,3	6,1	21,4
TOTAL	1.122,9	1.466,1	2.589,0

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Of the total 2,589 million pesetas corresponding to ESF (objective 3), 416.4 million pesetas are managed by the city halls (143.2 million in the period 1994-1996, and 273.2 million pesetas in the period 1997-1999).

Financing received through COMMUNITY INITIATIVES (1994-1999)

Gipuzkoa receives 1,283.2 million pesetas through community initiatives, high-lighting, from the point of view of quantity, the RESIDER programme with 675.1 million pesetas, destined to the industrial infrastructure of Elgoibar, the Eziago de Hernani industrial complex, the Lenbur de Legazpia project and the training school of the Upper Urola.

Through the INTERREG II programme 431 million pesetas are destined to Eurodis-trict, to the Bayonne-San Sebastian conurbation and the Bidasoa fair ground. From the ADAPT I programme 64.1 million pesetas are received for the projects Formul (adhesives) and Kotemm (composites), while from ADAPT II Gipuzkoa receives financing to the amount of 83 million pesetas. Finally from the HORIZON initiative, through project Zeharo (active management of employment for disabled persons) 30 million pesetas are received.

Table 4.14. Community Initiatives (Volume of aid obtained)

(million ptas.)

RESIDER II	Elgoibar: Industrial infrastructure Hernani: Eziago industrial complex Legazpi: Lenbur project Upper Urola: Training school TOTAL	84,1 125,8 215,1 250,1 675,1
INTERREG II	Eurodistrict Bayonne-San Sebastian conurbation Bidasoa fair grounds TOTAL	30,0 126,0 275,0 431,0
ADAPT I	Project FORMUL (adhesives) Project KOTEMM (composites) TOTAL	20,0 44,1 64,1
ADAPT II	Project synergy	83,0
HORIZON II	Project Zeharo	30,0
TOTAL		1.283,2

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Funding received through ERDF article 10 (1994-1999)

Together with the ERDF, the ESF and community initiatives, Gipuzkoa also receives funding through innovative actions, concretely through article 10 of the ERDF (ESPARRU programme) 64 million pesetas are received.

Cuadro 4.15. Iniciativas Comunitarias (Volumen de ayuda obtenida)

(million ptas.)

ERDF article 10	New sources of employment	64
TOTAL		64

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Financing received through the COHESION FUND (1994-1999)

Worth highlighting because of the amount, Gipuzkoa receives funding during this period through the Cohesion Fund to the amount of 4,015 million pesetas. All these resources are exclusively destined to highway infrastructures: 1,375 million pesetas for the Navarra expressway and 2,640 million pesetas for the Arrizeta link.

Table 4.16. Cohesion Fund (Volume of aid obtained)

(million ptas.)

Navarra expressway		1.375
Arrizeta link		2.640
TOTAL		4.015

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