| | “Directive Specific Implementation and Financing Plan – Quality of Intendend for Human Consumption” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The reasons for the transition period are affordability limits, borrowing capacity of municipalities and insufficient sources of financing for the implementation of EU Directives in shorter period of time. |
 | | There are 561 municipalities in Latvia, which are responsible for the provision of municipal services in their administrative territories. |
 | | A prerequisite for the municipal participation in the investment programme is a municipal council decision to ensure project management and to facilitate project implementation, to allocate at least 10% of investments from the municipal budget and to take a soft loan as per affordability of the total investments. |
| www.varam.gov.lv /id/JOMA/Edzer_ud.htm (8964 words) |