News
2/20/2019 16:44
Today in the premises of the
Secretariat for European Affairs, the Programming Mission of the
Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) was
held, where the comments of IPA 2019 and 2020 Action Documents were discussed
and the comments were harmonised after the first qualitative review.
Representatives of the
Delegation of the European Union (DEU) and representatives of the Secretariat
of the National IPA Coordinator (NIPAC) as well as the coordinators of the
sectoral and sub sector working groups for education, employment and social
policy, agriculture and rural development, competitiveness and innovations,
Justice and Home Affairs, Regional Policy and representatives of end users participated on the meeting.
At the meeting they announced
the findings of the first quality control of action documents by the EC and the
DEU for IPA 2019-2020. The deadline for harmonisation of the documents is by
the end of February 2019 when they will be returned to the Commission for a
second quality review. The IPA Action Documents 2019 are expected to be
approved in October 2019, and the approval for IPA 2020 at the beginning of
2020.