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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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€94m redeployed from IPA funds for Serbia

Belgrade, 25 March 2020

Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic announced today that Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Oliver Varhelyi has instructed his service to release approximately €94 million with the approval of the Serbian government from ongoing projects as well as projects from IPA funds that have not been carried out so far.

Previously, Joksimovic formally addressed Varhelyi with a letter asking him to take measures to prevent and combat the effects of the coronavirus epidemic in Serbia.

This equates to €15 million for emergency needs under current programmes and contracts with UNDP and UNOPS. It also looked at the possibility of using almost €21 million more from European integration support programmes.

In his letter, the Commissioner also indicated the possibility of additional support in agreement with the government of Serbia by diverting the funds allocated for the implementation of projects, whose implementation has not yet started, to support the health system and overcome the socio-economic consequences in the amount of €57.6 million.

Joksimovic expressed her gratitude to the Commissioner for the effective and prompt response of the European Commission, which understood our messages aimed at providing emergency support by diverting part of the funds from current programmes and contracts and using unspent funds that could be used to support the health system in order to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.