Government managers who fail to meet deadlines for selecting viable projects and for distributing EC money to fund them, will be penalised and may even be removed, said the Deputy Minister for Regional Development.
Speaking to reporters after his speech presenting the new Community Support Framework, Portugal 2020, held in Faro, Miguel Poiares Maduro said the government had "a very great concern" about the speed that applications for community funds are dealt with and that the previous lack of checking that funds have been well spent can not continue.