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Sergei Stanishev to check on NRIA’s readiness

Tue, Jun 23 2009 10:00 CET byNick Iliev 705 Views
Sergei Stanishev to check on NRIA’s readiness

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Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev will stage a working meeting on June 23 with the National Road Infrastructure Agency (NRIA), the government press centre has announced.
 
The head of the Surveillance Council, engineer Ivan Atanassov, and the executive director, engineer Yanko Yankov, will present Stanishev with the readiness state of the road projects and which are awaiting funds from the operative programmes Transport and Regional Development.
 
Last week the European Commission lifted the ban, which until then had thwarted indefinitely any further activity over the aforementioned programmes. In light of the scandals, which were unveiled earlier last year, it was taken a decision that in order for those programmes to receive further European funding, Brussels was to survey and approve them beforehand.
 
Initially, Brussels had told NRIA to refrain from applying and signing contracts which rendered the use of European funds at the beginning of 2008. Then, the European Commission had decided to freeze 115 million euro altogether, due to conflicts of interests between the former boss of the road fund and suspicions of widespread corruption in projects which were under the agency’s wing.

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