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- ‘Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document (MIPD) 2007 - 2009 for
Montenegro’
This multi-annual indicative planning document is the strategic document for the
Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), which main objective is to help the
country to face the challenges of European integration, to implement the reforms
needed to fulfil EU requirements and progress in the Stabilisation and Association
Process and to lay the foundations for fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria for EU
membership. The MIPD is established for a three year rolling period, with annual
reviews. It follows the Multi-annual Indicative Financial Framework (MIFF), which
indicatively allocates funds per beneficiary and per component. It draws on the preestablished
IPA components. The priorities set out in the MIPD components will
serve as a basis for the annual programming of EU funds in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
The present MIPD builds on results from projects implemented under the CARDS
programme, as well as on the findings of the various assessments of Montenegro
performed by the European Commission, in particular the annual progress report,
and on the findings of other international organisations and experts working under
multi-beneficiary and regional programmes.
The Montenegrin authorities have provided a contribution to the establishment of the
present document. A national coordination mechanism for the Pre-Accession
Instrument was introduced by the Montenegrin government in July 2006.
- ‘Montenegrin agriculture and EU – Agriculture and Rural Development
Strategy’
The new strategy, entitled and adopted in mid 2006, creates the basis for reforms in
agriculture (Final report of the EU funded project is available on
http://www.gom.cg.yu/files/1181052687.pdf). In the field of agriculture policy,
measures - programmes for assistance in agriculture development are being
adjusted to new reforms of CAP, particularly rural development policy, which
represents the largest part of budgetary allocation for agriculture assistance.
Significant changes have been introduced in the area of agricultural statistics, in
cooperation with a SIDA project. Those changes primarily relate to introduction of
new monitoring of crop production; harmonisation with EU standards in the area of
cattle breeding; creation of conditions, primarily by engaging new highly skilled
employees, for preparing economic accounts for agriculture; and preparation of IPA
project related to agricultural census, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture.
1.3 Specific Programmes and Instruments
- Development funds
Funds such as the Development Fund of the Republic of Montenegro are common
instruments of state support to entrepreneurship. Such funds may operate using the
state budget funds, privatization proceeds, donations, foreign financial support, etc.
Development Fund earns its income primarily by selling shares from its portfolio,
collecting dividend from profitable companies and interest from loans approved to
SMEs, which means that whole income is of non-budgetary type.
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