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XII Meeting of the Council for Development of the East planning region

The Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Mr. Nexhat Jakupi, visited the East planning region on May 26, 2010. The Minister visited Shtip and met with the Mayor of the Municipality of Shtip, Mr. Zoran Aleksov and the Manager of the Centre for Development of East Planning Region, Mrs. Dragica Zdraveva. Then he visited municipality of Karbinci, where he was welcomed by the Mayor, Mr. Vasil Bogdanski, President of the Council for Development of East Planning Region, Mr. Ratko Dimitrovski, and other mayors from the East planning region. After the brief meeting with the members of the Council for the Development of the Eastern Planning Region, the Minister visited the archaeological site Bargala.

The XIIth regular meeting of the Council for Development of the East planning region was held in the Mountain Hut "Vrteshka’’ on Plachkovica Mountain. Honored guest at the Council meeting was Minister Jakupi, who spoke about the current activities of the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning and the related establishment of regionaleniot system for waste management planning in the East region. In this regard, Mrs. Darinka Jantinska, Head of IPA department at the Ministry, gave full insight into the "Strengthening of administrative capacities of regional and local levels”. Consultants from the EU will be present in the region from June, 2010 until June, 2011.

Activities that  the Council and the Centre for Development East Planning Region implement in this area, are of great importance to solve the problem of waste management and the benefits of establishing this system are of great importance for the region and the country as a whole.

At the meeting, the Council approved the project proposal from CRIPR for connecting the municipalities from the East planning region in a single GIS system. Also on this meeting the Mayors were presented with a draft version of the "Study on the potential use of biomass for energy production in the East Planning Region," for which follows a public hearing in the upcoming period.

For the Council

Council for development of the planning regions is formed separately for each region.

Members in Council for development of the East planning region are the Mayors of the Units of local self-government in the region.

The Council is managed by president, who is elected by the Mayors, for a period of 2 years.

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Zvonko Pekevski, Mayor of the municipality of Berovo
Vinica Ivica Dimitrov, Mayor of the municipality of Vinica
Delcevo Goran Trajkovski, Mayor of the municipality of Delchevo
Zrnovci Blaze Stankov, Mayor of the municipality of Zrnovci
Karbinci Jordan Nasev, Mayor of the municipality of Karbinci
kocani Nikolco Ilijev, Mayor of the munucipality of Kochani
Kamenica Sonja Stamenkova, Mayor of the municipality of Makedonska Kamenica
Pehcevo Dragan Trencovski, Mayor of the municipality of Pehchevo
Probistip Dragan Anastasov, Mayor of the municipality of Probishtip
Cesinovo Goranco Krstev, Mayor of the municipality of Cheshinovo-Obleshevo
Stip Blagoj Bocvarski, Mayor of the municipality of Shtip

The Council for development of the East planning region does the following functions:

  • Organises and coordinates the activities for following and appraising the implementation of the planning documents for regional development;
  • Adopts the Programme for development of the planning region, with previous approval from the National Council for balanced regional development;
  • Adopts the annual action plan for implementation of the Programme for development of the planning region;
  • Establishes a list of project proposals for development of the planning region, annually; планскиот регион; 
  • Delivers proposals to the Bureau for regional development for identification of areas with specific development needs in frame on the planning region, in accordance with criteria with article 7 of this Law;
  • Assures coordination of the activities of the units of local self-government, associations of citizens, governmental agencies and institutions within the region which are working on regional development;
  • Initiates coordination between the units of local self-government and partners from private and civil sector concerning regional development issues;
  • Promotes cross-border cooperation with regions from other countries based on common interest; 
  • Performs other works in the area of regional development established by the Law;
  • Adopts annual report for implementation of the Programme for development of the planning region.