Press Release: Cohesion policy 2007-2013: Malta becomes the first Member State to have plan and priorities agreed with the Commission

Regional policy Commissioner Danuta Hübner and Employment and social affairs Commissioner Vladimír Spidla congratulated the Maltese authorities for becoming the first Member State to have officially agreed with the European Commission on the national plan and priorities for Cohesion policy 2007-2013. Malta had sent electronically its National Strategic Reference Framework to the European Commission on 21 November 2006. The document described how EU funding will be used to deliver growth and jobs in the new programming period to start on January 2007. The adoption procedure has now been completed as the European Commission issued its decision on elements of the Maltese plan, including priorities, indicative annual allocations, and list of operational programmes.