The CIP EQUAL CZ Programme
defined the terms and conditions for providing aid from the ESF for the
shortened programming period 2004–2006, with the implementation till
August 2008.
The objective of
the CIP EQUAL CZ Programme was development, testing and implementing
of new means for fight against all forms of discriminations and inequalities
in the labour market.
The CIP EQUAL CZ budget
was EUR 43,973,880, i.e. ca CZK 1.4 billion (as it was already mentioned
above, of 73 % the ESF funds and of 27 % the funds of the state budget
of the Czech Republic were concerned).
The CIP EQUAL Programme
had three implementation stages both in the Czech Republic and in the
partner countries – these were Actions 1, 2 and 3. The foreign partners
were both from the existing and new member countries. Besides their
national regulations and rules of the programmes, the common regulations
of the EU for the ESF and CIP EQUAL were valid for them.
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