Belgrade, 27th November 2017

The first EU PPF6 Steering Committee Meeting was held at the premises of the Ministry of European Integration in Belgrade and it was attended by the SC members, namely the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia (EUD) as the funding institution, Ministry of Finance – the Department for Contracting and Financing of EU Funded Programmes (CFCU) as the Contracting Authority, and Ministry of European Integration as the Beneficiary, as well as the EU PPF6 team representatives. In the course of the SC meeting Mr. Ploco, EU PPF6 Team Leader presented the 1st Interim and Inception Report with the tasks performed during the project inception phase and planned activities for the next interim period.

One of the most important activities during the EU PPF6 Inception phase was related to appraisal of 10 infrastructure sub-projects from the SPP and development of ToRs and Methodologies for the potential projects to be prepared in the next period. The priority projects in the environment and energy sectors were previously nominated by the line ministries and the results of the appraisal phase were presented by the EU PPF6 expert team in September 2017. Upon approval and submission of the final list of sub-projects from the line ministries, the EU PPF6 team shall commence with preparation of the technical documentation for each of the selected project.

The Project Steering Committee will continue to have regular meetings to oversee the implementation of all project activities and review project progress towards the achievement of the project objectives.