Step 2 of the first call for proposals of the Interreg Sudoe Programme was launched on the 29^th of February 2016 and will close on the 29^th of April 2016, which is the deadline to submit the proposals.

The Steering Committee will meet at the end of June 2016 in Portugal to decide upon the projects submitted to Step 2 of the call for proposals and set up the list of approved projects.

Since the list of the programmed projects will be released at the end of June 2016, project implementation can safely begin on the 1^st of July 2016. However, some projects may have begun their implementation before this date, provided it doesn’t infringe State aid rules (especially the incentive effect rule), and that this date had been mentioned in the project application form.