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Development strategies
Klaipeda district head
administration during seven years of existence made several important
strategic development papers. Klaipeda district regional development
preliminary priorities and aims were made in 1999. Later in 2001
Klaipeda district head administration, made Regional development plan
for the period of 2001-2006 and Klaipeda district general plan including
drawings in Lithuanian and English ‘Western Lithuanian: 2020’.
Klaipeda district head
administration constantly takes part in the preparation of National
development plan (the General programming paper) that has a huge
importance when joining EU.
Klaipeda district head
administration also takes part in preparation for EU membership,
actively entering international projects according to EU financial
support means: PHARE CBC, TACIS and
INTERREG. The district administration
constantly enters national EU development means of
PHARE, SAPARD and ISPA programmes;
in the district it administrates Phare 2000
Economic and social cohesion and SAPARD programmes.
The guideline of regional development according to general plan
Priorities of
regional development:
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Small and medium
business development (2nd national priority ‘Industrial
sector development and market economics development incentive’.
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Development of
village and initial economics sector shake-up (2nd national
priority).
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‘Habitants’
professional teaching and occupation, education and science
development (4th national priority ‘The development of
human recourses’).
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The development of
paid services, tourism and recreation (2nd national
priority).
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The development of
social support (4th national priority).
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The development of
transport facilities (3rd national priority ‘The
development of economic facilities’).
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Environment
protection (3rd national priority).
The aims of
balanced development:
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Decentralize economic
and urbanistic development in order to avoid the concentration of
habitants’ services and farming in the centers of regional
development-Klaipeda and Palanga;
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Encourage
municipalities to use special farm development possibilities;
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Integrate the
district of Skuodas into the special development structure of regional
area;
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To protect the
quality of natural environment and the values of landscape in
non-urbanized areas;
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To connect Klaipeda
district municipalities’ international communication, partnership
plans, aims and projects to the Baltic Sea region development.
The aims of
economic development:
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To create a favorable
atmosphere for investments, to attract as many as possible foreign and
national investments, to develop independent regional investments
policy;
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To create in the
district a favorable atmosphere for development of small and medium
business, especially in the centers of districts and villages;
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To develop
capabilities of transport facilities that serve the port;
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To develop intensive,
competitive farming only in the richest soil of region and supply with
food products the habitants of the region and industry with raw
material;
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To develop the
industry connected to the sea port and local raw material output and
-recast;
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To encourage the
development of tourism facilities, to assure tourism and show business
variety, to make such conditions, that in the resort net region
habitants, holidaymakers and tourists could choose services according
to needs, quality, and place.
The aims of life
quality development:
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To encourage the
local communities to keep their living environment;
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To develop the
facilities, that could assure needed sanitary living conditions;
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To develop work
market in villages and make the conditions for the habitants to
acquire qualification according to the demands of the market;
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To develop care
system, public and private social service net, service nomenclature;
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To develop paid
services and to make conditions in choosing cultural, social care,
education, health protection, transport and other services according
to needs, place, and quality;
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To assure comfortable
and fast passenger communication with all region places;
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To encourage
competition and private initiative in the sphere of education,
culture, social care and paid services.
The aims of
environment protection development:
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To combine different
area development needs, to set the proper land usage purpose, that
would be the least harmful to the environment;
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To establish
technical means for air and surface water pollution decrease;
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To investigate
ecosystems, their evolution, to establish effective means of
biological protection;
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To protect the
variety and stability of landscape at the same time trying not to stop
local farm and social development;
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To involve region
society and farm subjects into environment protection and monument
regulation activity;
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To register the
values of the region culture heritage, to set and describe their value
features.
The aims of
engineering facilities development:
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To decentralize and
restrict monopolization in the systems of facilities;
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To assure the variety
of services and high quality for region habitants and farm subjects;
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To regulate
engineering facilities systems development;
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To assure the region
inside communication (district roads) good technical condition and
needed technical parameters;
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To adjust railway and
in-country water transport facilities to region in-country and
international communication;
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To encourage
competition and private initiative in the sphere of facilities and
utility;
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To regularize and
normally maintain the established centralized water supplement and
cleaning systems in villages;
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To create an
effective waste gathering, use and disposal system;
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To realize permanent
technical means of floods prevention;
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To develop connection
services in villages, especially in the areas mostly flooded.
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