National and Regional Levels Sample Clauses

National and Regional Levels. Annual Regional Research and Budget Plan for Part B of the Project

National and Regional Levels. NURTIMAN will use the well-established networks of the project partners at national and regional level, which will significantly boost local knowledge transfer to reach the largest possible number of farmers. The project takes advantage of these networks by setting up NUTRIMAN network hubs that mainly focus on dissemination activities but will also be used for communication activities such as announcing available best practice abstracts and demonstrations/ workshops. Four network hubs have been established, namely the Benelux hub, Central & Northern hub, Continental hub and the Mediterranean hub. Selected communication materials will be available in 8 languages which will support NUTRIMAN partners efforts at national and regional level.

National and Regional Levels. ‌ While in Portugal the river basins governance structure is rather centralised, with a national water authority retaining planning and decision-making power, in Spain such structure is shared between the central administration, its dependent river basin organisations (Confederaciones Hidrográficas), the autonomous regions, and local users’ organisations. Regional administrations have never been autonomous in Portugal (except for the islands of Madeira and Azores), and the administrative map of the country has always been reorganised from the centre (i.e. the capital, Lisbon), partially as a defensive response to the presence and threat of its dominant neighbour. Only recently, after the fall of dictatorship and the approval of a democratic constitution in 1976, the prospect of moving towards autonomous and directly elected regional governments was officially recognised. But resistance has proven harder to overcome than expected by 1976 constitutionalists, and after 36 years of proposing several maps with distinctive regional borders, a national referendum was held in 1998, with more than 50% abstention, and won tangentially by the “No” to regionalisation. Since its early days in the late 19th century, Portuguese water policy was mostly restricted to hydraulic infrastructures (mainly for urban supply and sewage treatment, hydro-electrical power and irrigation), and always promoted and controlled by the central administration (Pato, 2011). After entering the EU in 1986 (together with Spain), the challenge of building large urban water infrastructures in order to improve access to safe drinking water and sewage treatment caused a major policy shift. A large public company was created (Águas de Portugal) with a strong participation of municipalities, which were grouped in order to implement and manage local systems of water supply and sanitation. Also responding to the requisites of the European WFD, Portugal approved a new Water Law in 2005 that transposed the WFD to the national jurisdiction, and elected river basins (‘Hydrographic Region Administrations’) as the key unit for water management (Xxxxx, 2009; Xxxxx and Xxxxxxx, 2011) (Figure 2.1). However, the implementation of this new model of river governance based on river basin districts was rather ephemeral. Soon the re-scaling and reorganizational efforts were significantly limited, officially due to the current economic crisis, with the central government regaining control of the newly created Hydrogra...

National and Regional Levels