Regeneration and economic growth

Local Management Committee

A series of changes introduced by the Government have had an impact on the way in which the East Midlands ERDF programme is both governed and delivered. From 1 July 2011, responsibility for delivering the ERDF Programme in the East Midlands transferred from the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).

The Government is committed to a programme of localism, shifting power away from the centre and enabling local partners to drive change in tune with their own priorities. DCLG has confirmed therefore that, following consultation with Programme partners, the Programme Monitoring Committee (PMC) which has previously overseen the ERDF Programme in each region, will be replaced by new Local Management Committees (LMCs).

The 16 June 2011 meeting was the last formal meeting of the 2007-13 ERDF Programme Monitoring Committee. A Local Management Committee has now been established with new Terms of Reference. Mark Carroll, Director of Decentralisation and the Big Society at DCLG has been appointed as the East Midlands LMC Chair with Rachel Quinn, Chief Executive Officer of One East Midlands as Deputy Chair.

Responsibilities of the LMC

In developing LMCs, the European Commission's (EC) partnership requirements (Article 11 Council Regulation (EC) 1083/2006 - Annex C) will be honoured, as will the requirement on Member States to establish partnership committees (Article 63 - Annex C).

The LMC will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the 2007-13 East Midlands ERDF Competitiveness Programme. As set out in Article 65, the responsibilities of the LMC will include:

consideration and approval of project selection criteria
reviewing progress towards the achievement of programme targets and Priority Axes objectives through receiving and considering performance implementation data
receiving and considering consistent, up-to-date management information for the programme, as required by the Managing Authority
consideration and approval of Annual and Final Reports
consideration and approval of programme evaluations and resulting Operational Programme amendments; and
strategic linkages with other Structural Funds, domestic programmes and wider UK economic policy.