Public consultation resulted in 250 comments to the Operational Programme 2014-2020

The draft Operational Programme and the related draft Environmental Report for the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 were open for public commenting from 31 January to 28 March 2014. Due to national law stakeholders from Lithuania have a later deadline.

Representatives from 40 institutions sent 250 comments to the Operational Programme, mainly focusing on the content of future funding priorities. No comments were submitted to the Environmental Report.

The Managing Authority (MA) and the Joint Technical Secretariat (JTS) will review the comments and present them for discussion to the Programming Task Force in Berlin on 10-11 April 2014.

Based on the agreements reached at the meeting of the Programming Task Force, a final draft of the Operational Programme will be prepared by the MA/JTS and presented to the Joint Programming Committee for approval at a meeting in Warsaw on 14-15 May.