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The 2020 Operational Program has an implementation rate of 15% of Community funds, less than half the rate recorded the previous year of the previous Community framework, the Commission reported today. Regional Coordination and Development
. (2008-2013), the Center's Regional Operational Program had an implementation rate of 35% at the time, the difference being explained by the extension of the previous framework that does not had been completed only in 2015 and by a "very slow start-up of Portugal 2020", said Ana Abrunhosa, Chair of the Commission for the Regional Coordination and Development Center (CCDRC)
However, the head of n & rsquo; Is not worried, recalling that the delay in starting the current framework is in the European context, Portugal "is one of the most successful countries"
However, it will be necessary to draw " lessons for the post-2020 period ", ensuring greater speed in the implementation of the next framework, notably in the process of designating fund management authorities, whose process took" one and a half years "[19659002] "The transition [entre quadros] must be much faster" 19659002] According to Ana Abrunhosa, the Centro 2020 program has an investment commitment rate of 54% of funds available – according to him a "high" rate, hoping that this year the rate of execution will be accelerated and that However, in the support to enterprises in the central region, the story is different, with all the funds already committed and with a rate of execution of 40%, said the official, who spoke reporters in Coimbra at the conclusion of the 2020 Center Program Monitoring Committee meeting, which unanimously approved the reprogramming of funds.
Given the need to allocate more funds to support
This figure comes from funds available for financial instruments that CCDRC made available to facilitate business loans, given the constraints [19659002] According to Ana Abrunhosa, in addition to increasing the amount of money for businesses, it has also been enhanced. 250 million euros for local investment (education, health, tourism promotion, among others), an additional 45 million euros were made available to industrial areas and 30 million euros. for the scientific sector.
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