Cohesion policy is the European Union's main investment policy. It benefits all the regions and cities of the Union and promotes economic growth, job creation, business competitiveness, sustainable development and environmental protection.
The European Union supports the achievement of these objectives through the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESF, ERDF, Cohesion Fund, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)) and, since 2021, the Just Transition Fund (JTF). These funds are distributed among all the countries of the European Union on the basis of criteria and objectives laid down in the various Multiannual Financial Frameworks.
Since Spain's entry into the EU in 1986, the Directorate-General for European Funds has been the authority responsible for Spain's relations with the EU in budgetary matters and in the management of European funds. This website provides information on all the European funds that are managed in Spain, through the different administrations, as well as information related to the different periods (multiannual frameworks), main developments and Spain's communication obligations to the EU in terms of European funds.
The powers vested in the Directorate-General for European Funds are:
- The negotiation with the European Commission of matters relating to European funds.
- Coordination of the territorial administrations and the other ministerial departments responsible, with regard to the programmes, monitoring and evaluation of the Structural Funds.
- The preparation of studies and coordination of evaluation of programmes financed by the European Structural Funds.
- The analysis, selection and monitoring of projects to be financed from the resources of the Interterritorial Compensation Fund.
- The proposal for payments from the European Regional Development Fund to the final beneficiaries thereof.
The Directorate-General for European Funds is divided into the following sub-directorates:
- The Sub-directorate General for Budgetary Relations with the European Union. Assistant Director-General: Immaculate Sanz Sanz
- The Sub-directorate General for Programming and Evaluation of European Funds. Assistant Director-General: Cristina Rehberger Bescós
- The Sub-directorate General for Urban Development. Assistant Director-General: María Eugenia Bellver Moreira
- The Directorate-General for Management of the European Regional Development Fund. Assistant Director-General: Anatolio Alonso Pardo
- The Sub-directorate General for European Territorial Cooperation. Assistant Director-General: María del Carmen Hernández Martín
- The Sub-directorate General for Regional Incentives. Assistant Director-General: Carlos José Ortega Camilo
- The Sub-Directorate General for Inspection and Control. Assistant Director-General: Blas Javier López Carrión
- The Sub-directorate General for Certification and Payments. Assistant Director-General: Jerónimo Ríos Boeta
The Director-General of European Funds is Esperanza Samblás Quintana
Appointment
Curriculum Vitae