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A meeting of the Minister for Regional Development Klra Dostlov and her deputies with the leadership of the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic took place today at the Ministry of Regional Development with its chairman Frantiek Lukl and vice-chairmen Miroslav bnek and Pavel Drahovzal. The main topics of the meeting were the further procedure in the matter of the Building Act after its approval the National Recovery Plan the future programming period for drawing EU funds and other topics. The Union of Towns and Municipalities is a key partner of the Ministry of Regional Development with which we will now work intensively to implement changes following the approval of the new Building Act. It will take effect gradually it will take full effect on July 1 2023 commented Minister Klra Dostlov on the meeting. In connection with the approval of the new Building Act the negotiations addressed the transfer of officials the lease of premises or the new location of building authorities. The law has been passed so it is now necessary to look ahead and start taking the necessary steps to make the best possible transition between officials and other steps related to the entry into force of the new building law. We declared to the Minister our readiness to participate in the process and we will help the ministry to communicate the individual steps between our mayors and mayors said the chairman of SMO CR Frantiek Lukl. The discussion also touched on spatial planning in an independent capacity. Both parties have mutually confirmed that the Working Group on the Future of Spatial Planning 2030 will continue to operate and together with partners will try to find a way to legislate cleanly for the acquisition of spatial planning documentation in independent competence and resolve the financing of spatial planning in independent competence. Another important topic was the new programming period for drawing European funds 2027 when the ministry declared its readiness to submit a new programming document of the Integrated Regional Operational Program 2027 by the end of September 2021 to the government for approval. The last major topic was the National Recovery Plan. We agreed with colleagues from the Association that the National Recovery Plan is a great chance for investment by cities and municipalities. I reminded the representatives of cities and municipalities that the funds that we plan to use through our components in the NPO for the benefit of regions cities and municipalities amount to more than 6 billion crowns and it is necessary that projects be committed by 2023 which in terms of project not much time to prepare said Minister Klra Dostlov. Both parties also agreed on the need to properly set up the individual components of the National Recovery Plan which lead to the territory of municipalities and cities. We are aware that projects must be well prepared and must meet the negotiated conditions in order to draw funds from the NPO as best as possible so I am glad to be able to inform the Minister today on behalf of the SMO CR that the readiness of cities and municipalities is in the discussed areas is high concludes the chairman Frantiek Lukl.
