First ASEAN-EU Connectivity Dialogue
ASEAN-EU Cooperation Programme:
Walter Kennes, European Commission
DG DEVCO H2
Brussels, 27 February 2014
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Plan
• Role of DG DEVCO
• EU cooperation instruments
• ASEAN-EU cooperation programme under
Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 20072013
• Perspectives and priorities for ASEAN-EU
cooperation over the next MFF period 20142020
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Role of DG DEVCO
• Manages most of the EU budget for external
action
• Prepare EU development policy (eg Rio + 20)
• Contribute to the preparation of the EU budget
• Programming of EU cooperation: together with
EEAS
• Staff around 3740 of which 2340 in Delegations
• Budget handled around € 8.5 billion (USD 11 bn)
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Cooperation cycle
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Programming (with EEAS)
Identification
Appraisal
Decision
Implementation: usually starts with the signing of
Financing Agreement
– Call for tenders, call for proposals
– EU procedures or partner procedures
• Evaluation
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External relations instruments
 Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)
 Humanitarian Cooperation
 European Instrument for Democracy and Human
Rights (EIDHR)
 Stability Instrument
 Cooperation with Industrialised Countries and
Partnership Instrument
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Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)
• Geographic Programmes
– Asia
• bilateral (including CLMV and Philipines)
• regional
– ASEAN-EU programme (discussed at the JCC)
• Thematic Programmes
– Global Public Goods and Challenges
• Global Climate Change Alliance
• FLEGT
– Civil Society and local
authorities
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ASEAN-EU cooperation (2007-13)
• Direct support to ASEAN integration: almost €10
million per year within the wider regional support
for Asia
• A much larger set of bilateral programmes with
ASEAN Member States (total around € 1.2 bn)
• A range of other regional and thematic
programmes: SWITCH Asia, TEIN, Asia
Investment Facility, FLEGT, Erasmus, Global
Climate Change Alliance, Health, Uprooted
peoples, Humanitiarian Assistance, Scientific
Cooperation, Human Rights, CBRN.
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EU bilateral cooperation, 2007-2013
MS (M.€)
SECTOR I
SECTOR II
Myanmar
(125)
Education
Health
Cambodia
(143)
Support to National Strategic
Development Plan
Basic Education
Indonesia
(402)
Education
Trade and
Investment
Judiciary sector– Law
enforcement
Lao PDR
(69)
Poverty Reduction Support
Operation
Malaysia (8)
Dialogue Facility Trade and
Investment
Thailand
(12)
Economic Cooperation
Science,
technology,
education
Good Governance,
Human Rights, Mine
action
Philippines
(128)
Assistance to the poorest
sectors of society, access to
health services
Assistance to trade
and investment
Support to Mindanao
Peace Process
Vietnam
(298)
Support for Vietnam's SocioEconomic Development Plan
(SEDP) 2006-2010
Health
SECTOR III
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Cooperation 2007-13
Economic Community
• ASEAN Regional Integration Support by
the EU (ARISE) € 15 mn
– institutional support, integration capacity
building, customs and transit arrangements,
trade facilitation, technical barriers.
• EU-ASEAN economic partnership €2.5 mn
– to enhance FTA negotiation capacity
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Current support to ASEAN
Economic Community (cont.)
• Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
(ECAP III) € 4.5 mn (now with OHIM)
– Protection and enforcing IPR,
• ASEAN Air Transport Integration Project
(AATIP) € 5 mn (with EASA)
– Support safe, secure, single aviation market
• Statistical capacity building € 6 mn
– Integration and harmonisation of statatistics
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Cooperation on Political & Security
and Socio-Cultural Communities
• Migration and border management € 4.7 mn
• Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue Instr. (READI) € 4 mn
– Flexible facility to support dialogue in areas to be
agreed
– Initial selection: information and communication
technology, disaster management, energy, research
and development
– Other proposed topics: climate change, human rights,
maritime cooperation, education
• Statistics and integration monitoring €7.5
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Recent decisions (2011-13)
• Border management including visa
simplification € 3.4 m (with Interpol)
• Higher education € 10 m (quality assurance,
qualification framework, mobility, credit transfer
etc.)
• Human rights dialogue( support for AICHR,
ACWC, …) topping up of READI € 3.3 mn
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Envisaged for MFF 2014-2020
• Joint Cooperation Committee (24 January 2014)
• Initial ideas on broad areas for future
cooperation:
– Connectivity through sustainable and
inclusive economic integration and trade;
– Climate change and disaster management;
– Comprehensive dialogue facility.
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Thank you for your attention.
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