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INVITATION - PRESS BRIEFING - Have EU Structural Measures
successfully supported the regeneration of industrial and military brownfield
sites
In recent years, more and more derelict industrial and military sites
(so-called brownfield sites) have become available for use.
Their number in Europe is estimated to range from a few hundred in
small Member States to a few hundred thousand in larger Member States with a
rich industrial past.
Many brownfield sites are contaminated.
The regeneration and the re-use of brownfield sites is promoted by EU
Structural Measures in order to protect human health and the environment and
mitigate urban sprawl.
This special report assessed whether EU co-financed regeneration
projects achieved their objectives;
the targeting of EU support for industrial and military site
regeneration was based on robust criteria;
and the results were achieved at the lowest cost to the EU budget.
The audit was carried out from March to December 2011 at the Commission
and in the five Member States which accounted for most of the expenditure in
relation to projects financed during the 2000 - 2006 and 2007-2013 programming
periods:
Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
The sample of 27 projects examined was worth a total of € 231 million
in EU co-financing
The main conclusions and recommendations of the report will be
presented to the press by Mr Henri Grethen, Member of the Court.
DATE AND TIME Thursday, 18 April 2013 at 10:30
VENUE The RESIDENCE PALACE - International Press Centre
MAALBEEK ROOM
155, rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels – Belgium
A PRESS KIT, consisting of the Special Report and a press release, will
be made available for the press briefing.
The Special Report will be published on the Court's website,
www.eca.europa.eu, in 22 official languages.
INTERPRETATION will be available in French and English.