Management and Use of Financial Instruments from the EU Budget Through State Funds - Czech Case Study
Abstract
Based on the multiannual framework the annual EU budget is set, which is designed to support EU policies represented by national, regional, multinational and multiregional programmes. EU expenditures belong to six categories and are channeled via e.g.
European structural and investment funds. The resulting financial instruments are managed and used by national managing authorities.
In the Czech Republic, these are ministries which can use for this purpose state funds. The main goal of this contribution is to individually assess the activity of six Czech state funds with respect to the management and use of the EU financial instruments.
This assessment is done based on the case study using expert analysis and exploring primary data yielded by a questionnaire survey, while employing a comparative perspective projected via Meta-analysis. This pioneering study leads to conclusions and propositions for a better understanding of state funds and for increasing their effectiveness and efficiency.