The Official Journal has published last 4 april 2009 a tender for identifying and aggregating elasticities for spill-over effects due to linkages and externalities in the main sectors of investment co-financed by the EU cohesion policy.

The Directorate-General for Regional Policy will study the spill-over effects due to linkages and externalities in the main sectors of investment co-financed by the EU cohesion policy according to the tender published last 4th April 2009.

The objective of this study is to improve the current CSHM by identifying elasticities for the main categories of expenditure which:

• Are differentiated per country.
• Include elasticities for the main sectors of investment.
• Allow for environmental impacts of alternative sectors of investment.
• Are also expressed in terms of EU cohesion policy expenditure and co-financing rates for the main sectors of investment.

Deadline for the submission of proposals is on the 18th May 2009 and they should be submitted in:

Directorate-General for Regional Policy, REGIO C.3, Economic and quantitative analysis, additionality
rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200
Bruxelles/Brussel
1049
BELGIUM. Tel. +32 22955230
faxFax +32 22994684
E-mail: Nicola.De-Michelis@ec.europa.eu