The EEA and Norwegian grants has announced a call for applications for Reduction of Risks Related to Historically Contaminated Territories.

EEA and Norwegian grants support the remediation of historically contaminated sites in order to improve the quality of soil, ground, groundwater or surface water, restore and improve the quality of the environment in and around contaminated sites, and prevent threats to human health and the environment.

Funding Information

• The co-financing of the Program available for the projects is 11,000,000 euros. Program co-financing available for one project:
  • minimum: 1,000,000 euros;
  • maximum: EUR 4 350 000.
• The maximum support rate of the Program is 85% of the total eligible costs of the project. The project applicant ensures its co-financing in the amount of at least 15% of the total eligible costs of the project.

Eligible Project

The open tender will support projects for the remediation of historically contaminated sites where the polluter pays principle cannot be applied because the person responsible for the pollution no longer exists and there is no direct successor to such a person and the state or municipal authorities could not. prevent such pollution. In addition to remediation work, the project must include a public awareness campaign that includes at least two information events on current environmental and climate issues. 

Eligibility Criteria

In an open tender, a project application may be submitted by a local government, a direct or indirect administrative institution, a port authority or a special economic zone authority in charge of a port. Each project applicant may submit only one project application.

The project applicant implements the project alone or together with one or more project partners, which may be:

• An institution of direct administration of the Republic of Latvia or a derived public person or an institution thereof;
• An association, foundation or merchant registered in the Republic of Latvia only in relation to the public awareness promotion measures implemented within the framework of the project;
• a legal entity governed by public or private law from the donor country (Kingdom of Norway) and the beneficiary countries of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Estonia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary).

For more information, visit EEA and Norwegian grants.