What is the link between the Growth and Jobs Strategy and the Structural Funds?
It is a very close link. The Commission is committed to ensuring, already from the beginning when Member States are drawing up their National Strategic Framework documents planning use of the funds for 2007-13, that structural and cohesion funding is used primarily to contribute to the Lisbon objectives. In a single market where those funds will be spent on procuring works, goods and services from all over the EU that will benefit all Member States and not just those directly receiving the most substantial amounts of structural funding.
