Príjmy zo štruktúrnych fondov a odvody do spoločného rozpočtu Európskej únie
INCOMES FROM STRUCTURAL FUNDS AND LEVIES INTO THE COMMON BUDGET OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The main immediate asset for Slovakia after its entry into the EU will be payments from structure funds, which will enable to solve various structure problems and accele-ration of the economic growth. The so-called pre-accession funds designed for candidate countries are forerunners of the structural funds. The first pre-accession fund was the programme PHARE, in the year 1999 the SAPARD and ISPA funds were added. The PHARE programme for the years 2000 – 2006 has two priorities – to build-up institutions and investments into infrastructure. Pre-accession strategy based on ISPA is oriented at the adaptation of candidate countries to the infrastructure standards of the EU in the sphere of transport and environment. Special pre-accession programme SAPARD should ease the trans-formation in agriculture. The overall scope of the pre-accession help for candidate coun-tries in the years 2000 – 2006 will reach 21 840 mil. EUR (prices 1999). From that amount, the shares of PHARE will be 50 per cent, for ISPA 33 per cent and for SAPARD 17 per cent. After its entry into the EU, Slovakia will take part in EU structure funds and in the Cohesion Fund. Structure funds include four independent financial tools. European Regional Development Fund – ERDF, through which the help is granted to the regions that are lagging behind. The fund operates on the complementary princi-ple, e. g. it is complementary source for the means of national governments to finance relevant project. European Social Fund – ESF is oriented at regions with declining industry, at the development of human resources and at the solution of structure unemployment. European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund – EAGGF, started to help at the implementation of the common agricultural policy. Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance – FIFG. Cohesion Fund – CF existing since the year 1993, helps to alleviate the differences in economic level within the EU framework. Slovakia will acquire the means from these funds after its entry into the EU. Currently the Slovak Republic is sharing the means of pre-accession funds, where the overall sum of the pre-accession help for Slovakia in the years 2001 – 2004 could reach 414 – 614 million EUR (e. g. 18 – 27 billion SKK). As for the future help from structural funds and from the Cohesion Fund, Slovak Republic could obtain in the years 2004 – 2006 about 1,79 billion EUR (e. g. 78,6 bil-lion SK). The real amount of help will be decided by the Slovakia’s preparedness – co-financing possibilities, good projects, functioning of relevant agencies. The matter for discussion is currently the problem of the amount of contribution the future member countries should pay into the EU budget. According to the preliminary calculations Slovak Republic should in her first membership years pay to the EU budget about 0,9 per cent of the GDP.

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