Forum for Sustainable Mobility
and Metropolitan Development
Oradea, 13-14 November 2013
JASPERS
Teo Falato, Transport Sector Specialist
Contents
• JASPERS overview
• Involvement of JASPERS in Urban Transport
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JASPERS overview
Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions
• Joint technical assistance facility (European Commission,
EIB, EBRD, KfW)
• Beneficiary countries:
– Twelve which joined EU in 2004 and 2007 (Bulgaria,
Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and
Slovenia)
– Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro and Serbia
– In 2013 assistance extended to Greece
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Evolution of JASPERS
2007
2007-2009
• Start-up
• Focus on concept/ feasibility studies
• Horizontal work
• Increased focus on applications and EC review
process
• Pilot phase: implementation support
2011-2013
• JASPERS introduces “capacity building”
• Increased focus on strategic support
• Start of support to projects for next programming
period
• Improved information sharing with IFI partners
• Start operations in Croatia
Post 2013
• Maintain project focus
• Increase capacity building, implementation support,
strategic support
• Geographic expansion to IPA countries
• Networking platform
• Consolidate Sofia office
Project Preparation Support is the focus
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JASPERS rationale
• Stable long-term structure
• IFIs’ in-house technical capacity and experience
• Based in and managed by EIB but separate from EIB
lending operations
• Close to beneficiaries: 70% of staff in regional offices
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JASPERS objectives
• Improving the quality of major projects to be
submitted for grant financing
• Accelerate the absorption of the available funds
• Building capacity within national administrations:
 learning-by-doing/replicating successful methods
 training seminars (e.g. cost-benefit analysis)
 horizontal studies: background advice (e.g. state aid),
spreading best practice
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JASPERS Structure
• Focus on Sectors
• Staffing: 89 staff as of 25 June 2013, including 14 support
staff
• Experts: engineers, economists and EIA specialists
• 70% of experts in regional offices
• Additional consultancy (JASPERS TA framework contracts)
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JASPERS Sectors
Roads

Air - Maritime Public Transport

Water & Waste
Knowledge Economy,
Energy
Road infrastructure
 ITS
 Road safety
Ports
 Airports
 Rail
 Urban Transport
 Water supply
 Flood management
 Waste water treatment
 Waste management
 R&D
 ICT
 Energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy
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JASPERS offices
LUXEMBURG
provides overall
coordination and JASPERS
services to Cyprus,
Malta, Greece, FYROM,
Montenegro and Serbia
WARSAW office
since November
2006: provides
JASPERS services
to Poland and the
Baltic States:
Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania
VIENNA office since
March 2007:
provides JASPERS
services to Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Hungary, Slovakia,
Slovenia
BUCHAREST office
since April 2007:
provides JASPERS
services to Bulgaria
and Romania
Sofia facility opened
in March 2009
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JASPERS Action Plan
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Assistance is provided on the basis of annual Action Plans
agreed between JASPERS and each beneficiary country
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Action Plans are discussed/decided in co-operation between
- the beneficiary country (Ministry of EU funds and Managing Authorities)
- JASPERS
- EC DG REGIO country desks
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2007-2010 JASPERS Action Plans covered many projects but only
under SOPs, ROP not included
•
2011 – first Action Plan including ROP – Urban Transport
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Action Plan Cycle
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JASPERS assistance
- Mainly project preparation
– Assistance from early stages of project through to the decision to
grant assistance e.g.
− Advice on conceptual development and project structuring
− Advice on project preparation e.g. feasibility study, options analysis,
cost-benefit analysis, financial analysis, environmental issues,
procurement planning.
− Advice on compliance with EU law (environmental, competition and
others) and conformity with EU policies.
- Implementation support and capacity development
− PMUs
− Procurement Plans, Tender Documents
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JASPERS Action Plan 2013
Urban Transport
• Guidelines report on urban transport infrastructures
• Preparation of Urban Mobility Plans for the 7 growth poles
& Bucharest/Ilfov
• Preparation of a pipeline of “no regret” public transport
projects (e.g. rolling stock) for the next financing period
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JASPERS Web Site
www.jaspers-europa-info.org
Contact details
JASPERS
Bucharest Office
Strada Vasile Lascar 31
020492 Bucharest, Sector 2
Romania