Regionalny program operacyjny/en

REGIONAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME (ROP) – a planning document, prepared and managed by the voivodship board, consisting of a coherent list of operational priorities, areas (sometimes also detailed actions) leading to increasing the competitiveness and sustainable development of a given region.. On the one hand, it is an important tool for the implementation of the socio-economic development strategies of individual voivodships in Poland, and on the other hand, an instrument that makes it possible to achieve the objectives of the existing strategic programmes regariding the EU’s cohesion policy – in 2017 it is the Europe 2020 Strategy. The provisions of ROPs are part of the development objectives of Poland, expressed in the country’s strategic documents and operationalised in the Partnership Agreement between Poland and the European Commission. They result and are closely related to the objectives set out in the following documents: 1. for the EU level – Europe 2020 Strategy, Country Specific Recommendations, for the EU/Poland level – Partnership Agreement; 2. for the national level – National Reform Program, National Development Strategy 2020 – Active society, competitive economy, efficient state; 3. for the regional level – the socio-economic development strategy of the voivodship. The main elements of the ROP are: 1. analysis of the socio-economic situation of the voivodship concerned, including the forecast of the results of the programme prepared before its commencement, 2. main objective and specific objectives, 3. priorities; 4. directions of spending public funds allocated to the implementation of programmes; 5. method of monitoring and evaluating the achievement of the main objective and specific objectives; 6. financial plan containing sources of funding for the implementation of the programme, amount of funds allocated to the programme implementation and its division among priorities, information on the amount of co-financing for each programme and priorities; 7. implementation system. Since 2007, the ROP has been implemented for 16 voivodships, each of which adopts its own set of priorities, indicating directions for spending the EU funds, based on a diagnosis of socio-economic situation supported by social consultations. Each of the programmes is prepared by the voivodship board in cooperation with the minister responsible for regional development (who supervises its implementation), is adopted by the voivodship board and by the European Commission. The resolutions of the ROP are expanded and detailed is the Detailed Description of the ROP’s Priority Axes adopted by the voivodship board, including, inter alia, issues concerning potential beneficiaries, eligible costs, maximum and minimum value of the project, level of financing, own contribution (→ region, regional policy, voivodship development strategy) [ T. Kownacki ].

Literature: R. Poździk, Fundusze unijne: zasady finansowania projektów ze środków unijnych w Polsce w latach 2007–2013, Lublin 2008.