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19.11.2014Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the OP "Human Resources Development"

Sixteenth regular meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the OP "Human Resources Development" was held on 13 November in  Sofia. It was revealing a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Ivaylo Kalfin. "My presence here is a sign of political attention to this operational pvogram, which is the most successful for Bulgaria and one of the most successful for the entire European Union," he said and justifies its claim to the percentage of services performed to date and verified payments - over 72%. Next year must make reasonable efforts to be disbursed and the remaining 27%, and even more important task is to them to achieve real change in the lives of Bulgarian citizens, added Kalfin.

Head of the Department for Bulgaria, Romania and Malta DG "EMPL" of the European Commission also expressed satisfaction with the pace of absorption of the European Social Fund. He stressed that the interventions undertaken by EU funds should be supported and extended by the state budget.

The committee approved numerous changes in the budgets of various operations, in order not to be lost funds. Lively discussion developed on the indicative program of OPHRD 2015. Already in early November Roma organizations, the National Network for Our children and Forum "Citizen Participation" brought opinion for changes and additions in the indicative program. It was presented by Deyan Kolev, who stressed that it was unacceptable MA to offer for 2015 only 4 operations, all for direct grant (EA and the Secretariat of NCCEII). He proposed five procedures for competitive selection of projects in the areas of Roma integration, juvenile justice and social services. It is the Managing Authority to organize a meeting with non-governmental organizations offering specific operations and only then to approve the Indicative Working Program, insisted Kolev.

Similar statement signed by all social partners, was also presented to the Committee. The Managing Authority committed to discussions with all forward specific proposals.

The first meeting of the new CN OPHRD likely will be held on December 12, 2014 is expected to then new Operational Program to be approved by European Commission.

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