Official Opening Conference of the Programme brings together Decision Makers from Programme Area

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Over 120 high-level officials, local leaders and decision makers from eligible area of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine met on 13 July, 2017 in the 18^th century early-baroque L'Huillier-Coburg Palace in Edelény, Hungary to give an official opening to the Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI CBC Programme 2014-2020. The conference aimed to promote the border regions and to inform local authorities, opinion leaders and the public about opportunities offered by the Programme.

The conference was opened by representatives of participating countries, Zsigmond Perényi, Deputy State Secretary for International Affairs of the Prime Ministers´s Office of Hungary, Head of the Managing Authority, Jaroslav Regec, General Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic, Marius Gabriel Lazurca, Ambassador of Romania to Hungary, and Joseph Borto, Deputy Head of Zakarpattia Regional Council.

Two panel discussions with participation of local leaders provided a platform to discuss the contribution of cross-border cooperation between the border regions to regional development, and better usage of the funding opportunities of Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI CBC Programme 2014-2020.

During the first panel, István Szabó, Deputy Head of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Council, Daniela Szélesová, Head of Department of Košice Self-governing Region, Csaba Pataki, Head of Satu Mare County Council, Joseph Borto, Deputy Head of Zakarpattia Regional Council and Sergiy Basarab, Deputy Head of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council discussed how the regional strategists are shaping project ideas submitted for the Calls for Proposals by the applicants.

During the second panel, Ioan Dancus, Deputy Head of the Maramureș County Council, Judita Yevchak, Deputy Director of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation TISA and Volodymyr Chipak, Head of Tisza River Basin Water Resources Directorate discussed how the project ideas are exploited and widening the approved regional strategies concerning development of cross-border regions.

The programme managers of the Joint Technical Secretariat, Adam Kamenský and Sergiu Zamari, informed the participants about the key elements of ENI CBC legal framework and main features of the 1^st and 2^nd Call for Proposals.

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