Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is composed of up to 2 representatives of each Partner State, from both national and regional level. The Managing Authority will attend the Steering Committee meetings. The Joint Technical Secretariat participates at the Steering Committee meetings with supportive function. Representatives of the European Commission may attend. The chairman of the Steering Committee can invite others to attend the meetings as observers on behalf of the Steering Committee.

The main tasks of the Steering Committee are:

• to approve individual project applications and the use of the Technical Assistance budget (including actions of the Communication Plan) on the basis of the assessment of projects and decisions of the Monitoring Committee and decide on the use of the available EU Structural Funds;
• to propose to the Monitoring Committee the project selection criteria in accordance with the Guidelines and the criteria laid down in the CIP;
• to propose to the Commission projects to be realised in the Non-Member States and to be financed by respective external financial instruments;
• to comment to the Monitoring Committee on regular monitoring, progress reports, annual reports and interim appraisals and to propose amendments
• to the Programme or Programme Complement;
• to contribute to the co-ordination with other Community programmes and policies;
• to establish Transnational Working Groups;
• to decide upon calls for proposals and to approve the terms of reference of them;
• to decide on the organisation of the monitoring and evaluation of the projects as a whole.

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