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National Reform Programmes (NRPs) are a key part of the Economic reform delivery process. The aim is explain to business and citizens what the Lisbon Agenda means in practice and to highlight progress and commitments in all Member States. Each national report should be high-level and challenging, and is intended to create real ownership at national level, where the majority of difficult economic reforms remain to be made in many Member States.
There are no clear rules on how Member States should develop their plans domestically – although the Spring European Council Conclusions made a recommendation for wide consultation with stakeholders, local and regional governments and other delivery partners, in line with existing national traditions.
In addition, Integrated Guidelines, bringing together the existing Broad Economic Policy Guidelines and the Employment Guidelines, were agreed in June 2005. These were intended to show the range of macro-economic, micro-economic and employment policy areas on which Member States should be reporting and were designed to ensure consistency and co-ordination of national strategies across the EU.
The current Integrated Guidelines for the period 2008-2010 were agreed by the Spring European Council in March 2008, when the new cycle of the Lisbon Strategy was launched.
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