According to Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11 July 2006, “Each Member State shall transmit the National Strategic Reference Framework to the Commission within five months following the adoption of the Community Strategic Guidelines on cohesion. The Commission shall take note of the national strategy and the priority themes chosen for assistance from the Funds, and make such observations as it considers appropriate within three months from the date of receipt of the framework.” (Article 28(2)).

Nevertheless in the case of particularily difficult oparational programmes the Commission can dedicate up to 7 months for commenting the programmes.

The countries that submit their NSRF and OPs earlier get a chance to have the response earlier. Those countries that will do it later, will have to wait in a longer queue.

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