Address: Ateities str. 23,
30121 Ignalina,Lithuania
tel.: +370 386 50400
fax: +370  386 50402
e-mail: info@iaeregionas.lt

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Brief outline of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant Regional Development Agency (INPP RDA)

In anticipation of the job losses resulting from the Decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Station in Visaginas, funding was set aside in 2001/2002 from the Economic and Social cohesion Programme for a Technical Assistance Project in order to prepare Statutes and an Operating Plan for a Regional Development Agency for the INPP Region which was seen as a mechanism for coordinating the development actions of both the state and civil society in the region of the three Municipalities of Ignalina, Visaginas and Zarasai.

The TA  project, managed by P-E International Consulting from the UK,  prepared Statutes and an Operating Plan for the Ignalina Target Region Development Agency, which was the blue-print for the establishment of a Regional Development Agency ( RDA ). 

The RDA was established in November 2002. The stakeholders and founders of the agency are as follows:

             -  Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania;

             -  Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania;

             -  Municipality of the Ignalina District;

             -  Municipality of Visaginas Town;

             -  Municipality of the Zarasai District.

The Director of the RDA  attends the meetings of the District Council in recognition of his special place in the development of the Ignalina NPP Region.

The objectives of the Agency are as follows:

• to mitigate the negative social and economic consequences arising from  the  decommissioning of Unit 1 of  INPP on the inhabitants of  the INPP Region;
• to diminish the immense difference of  economic, cultural, educational and living conditions between the INPP Region and other regions;
• to provide assistance to enterprises in cooperating with the institutions of the State Power and Government and the entities of foreign countries when arranging the preparation and implementation of social and economic projects;
• to provide support for the development of market economy, to provide overall assistance to enterprises and businessmen when using the European Union Structural Funds;
• to advice on the preparation of the National Development Plan.