Joint invitation to prepare and sign amendments to the agreements for the development of regions published

On Friday, 29 March 2024, the Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development published the first amendment of the invitation to prepare agreements for the development of regions. The agreements will serve as the basis for co-financing projects under European Cohesion Policy objectives in 12 development regions. “The agreements for the development of regions are an important form of allocating EU funding in accordance with the bottom-up principle,” said Minister Dr Aleksander Jevšek.
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Minister Dr Aleksander Jevšek | Author Communication Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia

The total available funding amounts to EUR 440.07 million, of which EUR 286.04 million is available to the Eastern Slovenia cohesion region and EU 154.03 million to the Western Slovenia cohesion region.

This invitation is unique in that it applies to all objectives and areas, whereas in the previous period, a separate invitation was published for each individual area. “This invitation allows funding to be reallocated between regions according to the quality and feasibility of projects within an individual area, which will bring greater financial autonomy to the regions and may even serve as a model for regionalisation in a broader sense,” said Minister Jevšek.

The invitation covers the following areas:

  • business incubators: the intermediate body is the Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development,
  • wastewater collection and treatment: the intermediate body is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning,
  • drinking water supply: the intermediate body is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning,
  • green infrastructure: the intermediate body is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning,
  • non-infrastructural measures for sustainable mobility at the horizontal level: regional mobility centres and regional integrated transport strategies: the intermediate body is the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy,
  • national cycle network: the intermediary body is the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Slovenia’s EU Cohesion Policy Programme 2021-2027 provides funding that will be available under the agreements for the development of regions, namely the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) funding, as well as the funds of the Integral Budget of the Republic of Slovenia. The funds are distributed among Slovenia’s 12 development regions according to the statistical criteria of development deficiency.

Srečko Đurov, State Secretary for Regional Development at the Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development, pointed out that in the previous 2014-2020 financial period, 225 projects were co-financed under the agreements for the development of regions, with co-financing amounting to EUR 446 million. The value of the implemented projects was higher by about a third of that amount.

The invitation is published on the Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development website under public notices at this link (available only in Slovene).

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