Secretariat office in Riga: contract signed

The Programme's Managing Authority, Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein (IB), and the host of the Joint Technical Secretariat office in Riga, the Latvian State Regional Development Agency (SRDA), signed the agreement for hosting the Riga office of the Joint Technical Secretariat for 2009-2013. Mr Klaus Rave, member of the board of the IB, and Ms Anna Vitola-Helviga, Director of the State Regional Development Agency, met on 25 November in Tallinn to sign the agreement. This legal document provides the basis for further close cooperation between both institutions.

The cooperation between Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein and Latvian State Regional Development Agency started in 2004, when Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland became members of the EU and the Joint Secretariat launched the office in Riga.