The government passed a number of decisions to boost the drawing of money from the EU structural funds, as it discussed a report on the drawing of funds from the Cohesion Fund on the basis of the Single Programming Document in 2004.
"The decisions are aimed at substantially boosting activities related to drawing money from the structural and cohesion funds," Minister of Local Self-Government and Regional Development Ivan Zagar told the press after the government session on Thursday.
The subject was put on the government agenda as virtually no applications for structural funds have been addressed to the European Commission so far and no money has been reimbursed from structural funds for Slovenia as yet.
The reasons for sluggish drawing of funds lie in very complicated procedures, Zagar said. The government will aim at having all funds available until 2008 to be drawn fully, he said.
According to the government report, SIT 57bn (EUR 238m) of structural funds were approved for Slovenia from the EU budget for the 2004-2006 period. The country can draw the money through projects carried out by ministries.
Until the end of 2004, SIT 17bn (EUR 71m) worth of projects were approved, contracts have been signed for SIT 6.7bn (EUR 28m) worth of projects, and SIT 4bn (EUR 17m) were paid to end-users.
SIT 46bn (EUR 192m) have been approved from the Cohesion Fund, with 20% to be allocated for co-financing environmental and transport projects.
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