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FIGURE 30: Number of projects removed from priority lists due to lack of development
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Albania Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Source: REC national PEIP lists
Croatia FYR
Macedonia
and Herzegovina follow after Croatia. However, in Bosnia and Herzegovina none
of the projects secured total or sufficient funds. Instead, a large number of projects
(seven) saw small increases in funding. In Montenegro, there were three projects
that secured sufficient funding, and a relatively high number of projects (nine) that
secured minor additional funding.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
none of the priority projects received complete funds for implementation and none
made sufficient progress to be removed from the list. However, these two countries
secured significant funds — Bosnia and Herzegovina EUR 78.1 million, and
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia EUR 53 million. In terms of total secured
funds, the figures for Albania and Kosovo (as defined under UNSCR 1244)
are EUR 25.8 million and EUR 18.6 million respectively. Figure 29 indicates actual
progress in project maturity, which is directly reflected by the funds approved
by donors and IFIs (and, to a lesser extent, by national governments).
Figure 30 illustrates the number of projects excluded from the lists due to longterm
lack of progress or as a result of losing their relative strategic importance from
the government’s point of view. The largest number of projects removed from the
priority lists as non-feasible or as no longer a priority can be observed for the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Croatia. In the case of Croatia, this was
due to the consolidation of the PEIP lists with the EPOP list, where the idea was
C H A P T E R 8
P R I O R I T I S AT I O N O F I N F R A S T R U C T U R E P R O J E C T S — T H E P E I P L I S T S
Kosovo (under
UNSCR 1244)
Montenegro
Serbia
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