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* 1. Contact information
If you wish to remain anonymous please only fill City/Town and Country.
Please note that in any case, this is for the records only, answers to the questions will be analysed and compiled anonymously. 

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* 2. How well do current ESIF instruments reflect the needs and priorities of regions and cities such as yours?
Rate the following factors on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 = “not well at all”, and 10 = “perfectly”.

  Rating 1-10
Resources available for spending in your region or city
Administrative burden associated with using EU funds
The focus of support created value in the region
The focus of support has also high European Value Added

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* 3. What would you like to see in the next EU budget planning period (post 2020)?
Rate the following factors on a scale from 1 to 10.

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Budget levels available
(where 1= “reduce EU funding significantly” and 10 =”increase EU funding significantly”)
Reduce bureaucratic burden
(where 1 = “not an important issue” and 10 = “essential”)
More thematic concentration of the funds on the issues most in need of help
(where 1 = “open choice of areas for Member States and managing authorities” and 10 = “much greater thematic concentration, focusing on EU objectives”)
Change eligibility criteria 
(where 1 = "the eligibility criteria should be made much stronger" and 10 = "the eligibility criteria should be made much weaker")

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* 4. Setting aside questions of how much should be spent through the EU budget, how should the EU budget be funded?
Tick all that apply.

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* 5. The European Commission has set out a priority of having a “Budget focused on results”. How successful are current EU budget instruments at delivering the results that matter to your city or region?
Please rate the following factors on a scale of 1 – 10, where 1 = “ineffective – no positive impact, or negative impact”, and 10 = “very positive impact”.

  Rating 1-10
How good is the programming process in ensuring a budget focused on results
Growth and jobs
Social issues, including migration and its impacts
Environmental issues
Improving infrastructure
Supporting sustainable agricultural production

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* 6.
A: What are the current most important priorities for your city or region?
B: Which of them do you think could be most effectively tackled by EU funding programmes?
C: Are there advantages to having funding for these priorities from the EU budget, or would more national and local resources be a better way of achieving results?

  A: Priority for city/region B: Could be effectively tackled by EU spending? C: Advantages to EU spending over national/local?
Growth and jobs
Social issues, inc. migration
Climate/energy targets
Other Environmental issues
Improving infrastructure
Sustainable agriculture
Transport
Other priority 1 (label priority in box below)
Other priority 2 (label priority in box below)
Other priority 3 (label priority in box below)

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