The European Union's Regional policy Commissioner, Danuta Hübner, on her first official visit to Cyprus, will this week meet with Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos to discuss the country's cohesion policy over the coming years.
Commissioner Hübner yesterday met Minister of Finance, Michael Sarris, to discuss the government's priorities for policy implementation in 2007-2013.
During her talks with Minister Sarris, Commissioner Hübner welcomed the Cypriot authorities' efforts to improve the efficiency of cohesion policy implementation.
The visit of the Regional Policy Commissioner to Cyprus takes stock of implementation of the cohesion policy since 2004, and aims at finalizing preparations for the forthcoming programming period.
"During the negotiations with the government the Commission found an agreement on practically all the issues. I am convinced that in the coming days we will officially approve the Cypriot strategy for the implementation of cohesion policy," she stated on Monday.
In Limassol the Commissioner will address a conference on SMEs organized by the Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry, and in Nicosia and Limassol she is visiting a number of European projects in urban regeneration and transport.
The European Commission has been cooperating closely with the national authorities to see that their preparation of the new Cohesion policy 2007-2013 is completed in time for the new programmes to start in 2007 and contributes in the most efficient way to economic and social development of the country.
Each Member State drafts its strategy for the implementation of the cohesion policy in the forthcoming programming period 2007-2013, known as National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF).
In drawing up their NSRFs, all Member States must take account of the Community guidelines for 2007-2013 which place particular emphasis on innovation, research and technological development, the information society, environmental protection, renewable energy sources and creating more and better jobs.
The Commission should approve Cypriot National Strategic Reference Framework by its decision in a few weeks.
The policy mix proposed by the Cypriot Government is in line with Commission's priorities and pays due attention to the necessary investment in environment infrastructure, renewable energy, notably photovoltaic energy, and in the Research, Development and Innovation area.
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