The Technical Support Instrument (TSI) is the EU programme that provides tailor-made technical expertise to EU Member States to design and to implement reforms at the national level, with an emphasis on the green and digital transitions. The TSI also supports the preparation and implementation of Recovery and Resilience Plans.
Initiated in 2021, the TSI is the successor of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP). Since 2017, both programmes have helped design, develop and implement over 1800 reform projects in 27 Member States.
COMPLETED AND ONGOING REFORM PROJECTS IN GERMANY
Reform projects approved under the Technical Support Instrument
The Technical Support Instrument yearly cycle is launched during the dedicated TSI Annual Conference. In April 2024, High-Level representatives from the European Commission, Member States and other Institutions gathered to share their perspectives on how the TSI 2025 could support Member States for the successful design and implementation of resilience-enhancing reforms, and in particular Public Administrations to be fit for the future and adaptable to change.
The conference also started the discussion with Member States on potential multi-country projects - geared at addressing common issues among Member States thereby emphasizing the EU added-value of the instrument - and presented a set of "Flagship" projects - supporting reforms which are largely needed across Member States and are in line with the EU priorities.
For 2024, the Commission approved the following 24 reform support projects for Germany:
- Support for developing Individual Learning Accounts in Germany
- Building a framework for outcome-oriented early childhood education and care
Multi-country projects:
- Developing Green Budgeting practices at regional level
- Artificial intelligence to support IT accessibility
- Enhancing regional access to and performance in EU initiatives and funds
- Supporting regional entrepreneurship through innovative technologies and AI in public services
- Sustainability in Local Public Finances (SLPF)
- Tackling greenwashing risk in the German and Dutch sustainable investment fund market
- PACE - Best Practices in Venture Capital Financing Instruments & Mobilisation of Capital for start-up financing in EU (GER / ITA)
- PACE - Efficient handling of mass litigation in labour disputes
- PACE - Exchange Program for National Inspectors Maritime Security (acc. to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, Directive 2005/65/EU)
- PACE - Exchange on the Planning and Data Analysis of National Air Monitoring Programmes
- PACE - GER Interest in a Cooperation between GER Federal Office of Bundeswehr Personnel Management and EST Defence Resources Agency
- PACE - IT-Security Approache in Mobile Civil Protections Units
- PACE - Implementation of the REGULATION (EU) 2023/1115
- PACE - National Statistical Institutes as a Kind of National Competence Centre for Data Literacy: Establishing Measures and Services Despite a Lack of Resources
- PACE - Natural hazard insurance in France
- PACE - Opportunities and Challenges of Administrative Digitisation in the State of Berlin. How modern leadership strengthens the modernisation of the public administration.
- PACE - Strategies for increased interoperability in decentralised healthcare systems
- PACE - Work assignment in Estonia to get to know how they organize e-government in public administration
- PACE - Working visit from the German EFSA Focal Point to the French EFSA Focal Point - an exchange of expertise in international work in the area of food safety
- PACE- Exchange on funding and support opportunities for business angels
- PACE- Exchange on measures to reduce long-term unemployment
- PACE- Multi-Stakeholder Advocacy on Sustainable Finance and Sustainable Transition – Stay at the Danish Climate Partnership
For 2023, the Commission approved the following 13 reform support projects for Germany:
- Further strengthening of the Spending Review framework in Germany
Multi-country projects:
- Towards improved security at the ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg and their embedded industrial clusters through validated and federated identities
- PACE - Civil service mobility
- PACE - Modernization of IT-infrastructure in the German federal government
- PACE - Governance of public investments in private corporations on the energy sector and beyond
- PACE - Exchange Program for National Inspectors Maritime Security
- PACE - Clustering Lightweighting Knowledge for Concentrated Climate Action and Strong Economics
- PACE - Exchange on data analytics, artificial intelligence and the implementation of an algorithm register
- PACE - AI-based methods for the risk assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms
- PACE - Harmonisation of the plant protection products' authorisation system
- PACE - Transformation towards climate neutrality
- PACE - Standardisation of data exchange in the Single Digital Gateway
- Climate adaptation
In 2022, the Commission approved 6 reform projects for Germany:
Multi-country projects:
- Micro-data platform for productivity
- Gender mainstreaming in public policy and budget processes
- AML risk analysis and supervision in the area of correspondent banking, Germany
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy - DE - Bafin
- Baromètre de la complexité franco-allemand pour la simplification des démarches administratives transfrontalières - Vereinfachung der grenzüberschreitenden Verwaltungsverfahren
- Digitalizing Monitoring of East Atlantic Flyway
More information can be found in the 2022 Country Factsheets.
In 2021, the Commission approved the following 4 reform projects for Germany:
- Digitalisation of supervisory procedures
- Determine the potential for digitization and harmonization of administrative processes
- Digital upskilling strategies for Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia
- General technical support for the implementation of Germany's Recovery and Resilience Plan
More information can be found in the 2021 Country Factsheets.
Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) projects (2017-2020)
The TSI expands on the experience of the SRSP programme in building capacity in Member States. You can find the full list of SRSP projects here.
Highlighted projects
The Commission supports this flagship project aimed increasing the awareness of policies for promoting Gender Equality across seven Member States, helping administrations to analyse policies and budgeting processes from a gender mainstreaming perspective.
The Commission supported Germany in strengthening the organizational capacity for banking supervision of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), through a digitalization of supervisory planning and monitoring and of licensing procedures.
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