Planning for regional development in the South – East represents one of the fundamental steps towards fulfilling the mission of the regional centre for development. In addition, the centre for regional development in the South-East region marks the beginning of the process for identification, promotion, management and utilizing developmental potentials of the South – East planning region.
Within the framework of the project "Joint actions for prevention and reduction of the consequences of disasters in the municipalities of Sandanski and Radovish" funded by European Union under the Second call for proposals of the Interreg - IPA CBC Programme Republic of Bulgaria - Republic of North Macedonia, the first meeting of the project team was held in the period from 27 to 28 November, 2019 (Wednesday and Thursday), in the premises of the Municipality of Sandanski, Republic of Bulgaria.
The Centre for development of the South-East planning region within the project "Agro-meteorological stations for protection of agricultural crops and the environment" has started with the installment of the Agrometeorological stations in the identified locations in the region.
The role of these stations is to measure the weather forecasts that farmers will receive on their own phones through mobile application as well as disease alerts that appear on a particular crop for which disease forecast software will be installed.
On 20th of November 2019 the XIII (thirteenth) Meeting of the Council for development of South-East planning region was held in the Municipality of Novo Selo, attended by the Mayors of the region, representatives of the municipalities and the Head of the Centre for development of the South-East planning region Ms. Gjurkova together with representatives of the Centre.
Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) is part of the package for external relations. IPA and other elements of the package are a great opportunity for streamlining and simplifying the procedures of the European Commission and improving the coherence and coordination of the activities of the Commission.
The established planning regions correspond to the statistical regions defined by the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics NTES-3, in order to provide a statistical basis for planning the development.
Each planning regions has its own established Council. The members of the Council for development of the planning region are the Mayors from the local governments within the region.
10 Municipalities from the Republic of Macedonia are part of the South – East planning region: Bogdanci, Bosilovo, Valandovo, Vasilevo, Gevgelija, Dojran, Konche, Novo Selo, Radovish and Strumica.