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NDP 2000-2006<br />

<strong>Waste</strong> management & waste infrastructure development planning have been<br />

included within the NDP in regional programmes in the past, to facilitate funding <strong>of</strong><br />

waste management activities at regional & local levels. The National Development<br />

Plan website outlines the mechanism through which the allocation <strong>of</strong> funds was<br />

administered, in particular where receipt <strong>of</strong> funding is negotiated and agreed with the<br />

EU; 1112<br />

903<br />

“To draw down E.U. Structural Funds, each Member State has to draw up and<br />

submit a plan setting out its investment priorities for the funding period….in<br />

Ireland’s case, the National Development Plan (NDP)…. (the subsequent) …<br />

agreement resulted in a Community Support Framework (CSF.)…”<br />

The NDP and the CSF form the basis <strong>of</strong> the implementation <strong>of</strong> the agreement for EU<br />

funding.<br />

Within the previous NDP (2000-2006), there were two regional assemblies which<br />

were the administrative bodies within which funding was administered through<br />

regional programmes; the Border, Midland & Western (BMW) assembly and the<br />

Southern & Eastern (S & E) assembly. The regionalisation arrangements negotiated<br />

by Ireland in the context <strong>of</strong> the Agenda 2000 Agreement resulted in the designation<br />

<strong>of</strong> two regions in Ireland for Structural Funds Purposes:<br />

� The Southern and Eastern Region (S&E Region) which will qualify for a six year<br />

phasing out regime for Objective 1 Structural Funds up to the end <strong>of</strong> 2005,<br />

and<br />

� The Border, Midland and Western Region (BMW Region) which has retained<br />

Objective 1 status for Structural Funds for the full period to 2006.<br />

Following this designation, two new Regional Assemblies where established and came<br />

into effect on the 21st July 1999 under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional<br />

Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1999. The Assemblies are comprised <strong>of</strong><br />

nominated elected representatives <strong>of</strong> the regional authorities within their Region. The<br />

principal functions <strong>of</strong> the Regional Assemblies are:<br />

� To promote the co-ordination <strong>of</strong> public services in the Southern and Eastern<br />

Region<br />

� To manage the Southern and Eastern Regional Operational Programme under<br />

the National Development Plan (2000-2006)<br />

� Monitor and make proposals in relation to the general impact <strong>of</strong> their regions<br />

<strong>of</strong> all E.U. Programmes <strong>of</strong> assistance under the Community Support<br />

Framework<br />

1112 National Development Plan (2009) National Development Plan Website, Available:<br />

http://www.ndp.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/eu_structural_funds/overview/structural_funds.htm<br />

&mn=euso&nID=3<br />

<strong>International</strong> <strong>Review</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Waste</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>: Annexes

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