EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Delegation to CYPRUS 26 - 28 September 2012 FINAL PROGRAMMEi Wednesday 26 September 2012 Arrival of participants - evening - Hotel choice: Hilton Cyprus/Nicosia. For those participants already in town, the Head of the EP in Cyprus will offer a briefing of the visit at 19:30 at the lobby hotel. Thursday 27 September 2012 08:30 - 08:50 Delegation to meet at the hotel lobby 09:00 - 10:30 Joint meeting with the Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Mr Andreas Mavroyiannis (Cohesion Policy Portfolio) and the Planning Bureau (Managing authority for Structural funds and Cohesion funds) place: EU House, 30 Lord Byron Avenue, Nicosia 10: 30 - 11:30 Meeting with the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, Ms Sotiroulla Charalambous (responsible for ESF) place: EU House, 30 Lord Byron Avenue, Nicosia 11:30 - 12:30 Meeting with the Minister of Interior, Ms Eleni Mavrou (responsible for Urban Projects and some major projects in the environment area) place: EU House, 30 Lord Byron Avenue, Nicosia 12:30- 13:00 Press Conference. place: EU House, 30 Lord Byron Avenue, Nicosia 13:30 - 15:00 Working-Lunch with main responsible officials on Cyprus' implementation of EU Cohesion Policy (hosted by the Deputy Minister for European Affairs) Pantopoleio Restaurant, 7 Vasileos Pavlou street, Lefkosia, 15:30 - 16:30 Meeting with the Mayor of Nicosia, Mr Constantinos Yiorkadjis, and visit to ERDF co-financed projects place: Nicosia Municipality, 1 Constantinou Paleologou St.r, Nicosia 17:30 - 18:30 Visit to the solid waste management plant co-financed by the Cohesion Fund place: Koshi Plant 19:00 - 19:30 Meeting with the Mayor of Limassol, Mr Andreas Christou, and visit to ERDF co- financed projects place: Limassol Municipality, 23 Arch. Kyprianou, Limassol 20:00 Dinner hosted by the Mayor of Limassol place: Town Center, Limassol, Artima Bistro Restaurant, Vasilisis street, Limassol (tel. 00357 25820466) Friday 28 September 2012 08:30 - 08:50 Delegation to meet at the hotel lobby 09:00 - 10:30 Meeting with the House Standing Committees on Foreign and European Affairs, on Financial and Budgetary Affairs and on Internal Affairs place: House of Representatives, 1 Nehrou street, Nicosia End of the official program of the Delegation Transfer to the airport i Please note that the Committee delegations shall consist solely of full or substitute Members of the Committee, appointed by the Committee, assisted only by political group secretariats, a secretariat from Parliament's services and an interpretation service. Only Members who are officially part of the delegation shall have the right to speak at official meetings. In principle, they shall put forward Parliament's official position on the matter under discussion. If Members outline a personal standpoint or a standpoint of their group, they shall indicate it clearly. On the Chair's authority, the Secretariat can take the floor (when necessary) in procedural issues or pertinent clarifications..