Project at a Glance:
| Project Title: |
Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System |
| Project Number: |
HR-06-IB-EN-01 |
| Funding Instrument: |
European Union's Phare 2006 Pre-Accession Assistance |
| Timeframe: |
January 2009 to May 2010 |
| Budget: |
700,000 € (Twinning) 1,000,000 € (Equipt. Supply) |
Management Profile
| Member State Project Leader: |
Mr. Harri Pietarila, Finnish Meteorological Institute |
| Beneficiary Country Project Leader: |
Ms. Vesna Duricic, Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia |
| Resident Twinning Advisor: |
Ms. Vuokko Karlsson, Finnish Meteorological Institute |
| Resident Twinning Advisor's Counterpart: |
Mr. Luksa Kraljevic, Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia |
EU Concept in a Nutshell
What is Phare?
The Phare programme, as a pre-accession instrument, is the main channel for the European Community's financial and technical cooperation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). The Phare programme, with a budget of over EUR 10 billion for the period 2000-2006 (about 1.5 billion per year), has two main priorities.
- helping the national administrations of the candidate countries to acquire the capacity to implement the Community acquis;
- helping the candidate countries to bring their industries and basic infrastructure up to Community standards by mobilising the investment required, particularly in areas where Community rules are increasingly demanding: environment, transport, industry, product quality, working conditions etc.
What is Twinning and how is it organized?
Launched in May 1998, the Twinning programme is one of the principal tools of Institution Building accession assistance. Twinning aims to help beneficiary countries in the development of modern and efficient administrations, with the structures, human resources and management skills needed to implement the acquis communautaire to the same standards as Member States.
The main feature of a Twinning project is that it sets out to deliver specific and guaranteed results. Twinning not only provides technical and administrative assistance, but also helps to build longterm relationships between existing and future MS countries.
Each Twinning project has at least one Resident Twinning Adviser (RTA) and a Project Leader. The RTA is seconded from a Member State administration or from another approved body in a Member State to work full time for a minimum of 12 months in the beneficiary country to implement the project. The Project Leader is responsible for the overall thrust and coordination of the project. They are supplemented by carefully planned and timed missions of other specialists, training events, awareness raising visits, etc. to accompany the reform process towards the targeted result.
