IPA intends to provide European Union candidate or potential candidate countries with target
assistance; IPA prepares, inter alia, candidate countries for implementing Structural Funds, the
Cohesion Fund and the Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, thus providing specific support to
local institutions in introducing as similar procedures to European Structural Funds as possible.

The Abruzzo Region has been assigned the task of Managing Authority of the IPA Adriatic Cross-
border Cooperation Programme in the sphere of the cross-border component of the IPA Adriatic 2007
– 2013 financial instrument, which involves 7 Italian Adriatic Regions (IAR), namely Abruzzo,
Emilia – Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche, Molise, Puglia, Veneto and some of the territories
of the states of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.

The Programme envisages 4 Priorities:
Priority 1 – Economic Social and Institutional Cooperation
Priority 2 – Natural Resources, Cultural Heritage and Risk Prevention
Priority 3 – Accessibility and Communication Networks
Priority 4 – Technical Assistance

In the scope of Priority 4 – Technical Assistance of the IPA ADRIATIC 2007 Programme – a series
of activities is envisaged, aiming at delivering technical and operating support to the Managing
Authority, which is established within the IPA – Adriatic Territorial Cooperation Service. The activities of technical assistance must contribute to ensuring the overall efficiency of the
administrative action and to solving specific needs, which may emerge during the Programme
implementation. 

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