The action plan was made known to our stakeholders from Phase 1, as they were involved in the consultation process in order to establish what types of actions could be implemented, based on the SMEPlus exchange of experience&inspiration happened and also on our needs at regional level and the legal-economical context.

On the 6th of December 2021, the action plan was validated and approved by the Join Secretariat. At this point we have let known our main stakeholder, respectively the Intermediate Body for the Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020, that the AP was validated and that the implementation started on the 1st of February 2022.

The first action started to be implemented in the first 6 months of Phase 1, having achieved the following:

- elaboration of the annex (tool) to the monitoring procedure;

- using the tool to collect data from 7 SMEs in order to estimate the impact of the EE measures taken.