The Technical Support Instrument (TSI) provides tailor-made technical expertise to EU Member States to design and to implement reforms, in a wide range of areas such as revenue administration and public financial management, public administration and governance, growth and business environment, labour market, education and social services, migration, and financial market and access to finance. The TSI has been also supporting 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 2000 reform projects in 27 Member States. Those reforms support Member States address their reform agenda, in line with the EU priorities and the country specific recommendations issued in the context of the European Semester.
COMPLETED AND ONGOING REFORM PROJECTS IN GERMANY*
* The above data include all projects completed and ongoing at the time of the announcement of the annual TSI financing decision. During their execution, projects can be further split or aggregated, cancelled or withdrawn. Therefore, figures related to the approved reform support projects can slightly differ.
Reform projects approved under the Technical Support Instrument
The Technical Support Instrument annual cycle is launched every year during the dedicated TSI Annual Conference. The conference also starts 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. The event is also the opportunity to present the new "Flagship" projects, supporting reforms which are largely needed across Member States and are in line with the EU key political priorities.
For 2025, the Commission approved the following 35 reform support projects for Germany:
- Support to HR-management reform in the German federal public administration
- Introducing an electronic transaction-based B2B tax reporting system in Germany
- Improving sustainability reporting for SMEs
- Gender Mainstreaming in public policy and budgeting processes in Berlin and Hamburg - continuation
- Digital inter-operability of 294 German counties
Multi-country projects:
- Improving sustainability reporting for SMEs
- Implementation of the DGA: Support for the competent body and analysis of the challenges of public sector bodies
- Gender Mainstreaming in public policy and budgeting processes in Berlin and Hamburg - continuation
- Improving capacity in Member States to effectively implement the Pillar 2 Directive (Directive 2022/2523)
- Supporting Digital Transformation in Competition Law Enforcement
- AI4SMARTAUDIT - AI for EU Funds audit
- Integrated environmental monitoring informs adaptive management of coastal wetlands
- Mapping, common denominator, best practices and common dictionary of AML/CFT related
- Futureproof Education: Supporting schools in the AI evolution
- Rethinking Healthcare – Prevention in University Medicine
- ProdTool - NPB 2.0: Micro-Data Analysis Tool 2.0 for comparative productivity studies at National Productivity Boards
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy
- PACE - Collaborative digital tools of European public services (Germany)
- PACE - Enhancing Citizen Engagement through AI-Driven Communication: A Cross-Border Approach to Digital Governance
- PACE - Streamlining Public Administration: Optimizing Processes Through Low-Code Solutions
- PACE - Maritime Security (acc. to Regulation (EC) 725/2004 and Directive 2005/65/EC) Germany
- PACE - Maritime Safety & Security (Flag and Port State)
- PACE - Improve administrative capacity for ESF+ 2028-2034
- PACE - Reforms of the long-term care system
- PACE - E-Government Learning Dialogue
- PACE - Public Sector Expertise/Twinning
- PACE - Usage of Cloud and IAM Technology in Public Administration
- PACE - Advancing the medical registries landscape in GER and preparing it for the European Health Data Space
- PACE - Developing Host Nation Support Concept for Baden-Württemberg - Enrichment through Spain and France
- PACE - Operation of PNR systems - Air passenger data
- PACE - Operation of the Internal Market Information System (IMI) at regional and local level
- PACE - Measures to reduce long term care and to ensure the quality of elderly care by specialist staff
- PACE - Implementation of the AI Act (Germany)
- PACE - EST-POL-GER PACE Cooperation on the Development of EU-OSINT Capabilities (Germany)
- PACE - Strengthening cooperation between BTSF national contact points (Germany)
- PACE - Common Standards for application of advanced Computational and other non-testing Methods in Safety Assessment of pesticide Residues (COMSAR)
- PACE - Strategic recommendations for low-threshold IT implementation and strategies for successful implementation of major digital innovations
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
Gender mainstreaming makes equality an integral part of decision-making by incorporating gender perspectives into all policymaking processes. Through capacity-building and peer-learning this project enhances gender equality awareness in policymaking across seven EU Member States: France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Romania. The project fosters structural reforms and unlocks potential for inclusive participation of all in economic and social spheres.
The European Commission is empowering the four regions of Silesia (Poland), Thuringia (Germany), Brussels capital and Wallonia (Belgium) to boost their economic resilience and innovation and drive institutional modernization. Therefore, the project aims to enhance the ability of the regions to access EU funds through strategic guidance and capacity-building activities.
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