This Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) Project is led by WAREG, the European Association of public authorities dealing with drinking water and wastewater sectors regulation. It aims at transferring know-how to senior officials of the national water regulators of the three target countries (Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia) as a part of a long-term strategy to strengthen their competencies with the following general objectives:
• carry out peer reviews of tariff-setting methodologies and provide recommendations to increase their effectiveness in applying the general principles of EU water legislation;
• consolidate the current cooperation among water regulators in the region, in order to disseminate best practices and promote the advantages of an independent regulation for investments, customers and environmental sustainability;
• facilitate access to specific EU funding and programmes in the future, to carry on capacity building in water regulatory institutions from other countries in the region.
The project will also be the first instrument of regional cooperation ever used by the three regulators to share knowledge on common water-sector problems and analyse specific regulatory actions. Finally, the project will serve as a leverage to access additional and more specific EU funding for regional integration and capacity building on water sector regulation in the Western Balkans.
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