The Saeima has adopted and promulgated the following laws of Valstsprezident: the amendments to the law on regional development making regional development Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2002, no. 9; 2003, 2, 6; 2005, nr. 8. No; 2006, no. 15; 2007, 12, no. 24, no 1, 2009; Latvian journal, 2010, 43, 205. no; 173. in 2011, no.) the following amendments: 1. Express article 4 paragraph 4 by the following: "4, the principle of additionality), national regional policy priorities are funded from the national budget to local governments, foreign financial assistance, legal and natural persons, including donations, participation; planning regional and local authority level priorities funded from the municipal budget to the country, foreign financial assistance, legal and natural persons, including donations, participation, and different levels of regional development aid funding is complementary to and not a substitute. " 2. To make article 14 (4) and (5) as follows: "4) determines regional development monitoring and evaluation procedures; 5) defines the territories development index and its value for the calculation of the publication procedure; ". 3. Turn off the article 15. 4. To make the first sentence of article 16, the following wording: "the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry is a leading authority in the State regional policy development, implementation and monitoring, as well as in the area of development aid in the coordination of the implementation of the measures." 5. Express 17.1 of the first paragraph of article 3 by the following: "3) after authorities view the grant from the municipal budget or grant from the local government under the local government and planning contracts concluded in the region;". 6. Article 21 of the expression as follows: "article 21. Regional development funding (1) funding regional development area or part thereof in accordance with the guidelines for regional policy regional policy laid down in the SME support. (2) funding of regional development and regional planning of local projects and programmes that correspond to regional or local areas development programming documents objectives, priorities, actions and planned investment. (3) public investment planning for the provision of individual services is applied to the regional policy guidelines of service specified territorial differentiation principle, which provides for the service of fixing the amount of the various groups of settlements, which included Latvia's sustainable development strategy, the regional or local area development planning documents. (4) public investment in areas of sectoral policies is based on the local or regional level identified development opportunities and priorities based on territorial development planning documents, with the exception of the national importance of the deployment planning. " 7. To make chapter V by the following: "chapter V area of regional policy, article 22. An area of regional policy, the concept of the regional policy area is the territory, which due to their location in the structure of national spatial and location associated with this characteristics are specific to specific challenges and potential for development. 23. article. Regional SME status (1) determination of the area of regional policy aims to take the specific needs of the area and the potential for the development of appropriate regional development support measures to promote equal social and economic conditions emerge throughout the country. (2) in the area of regional policy development is being promoted through the regional policy and sectoral policies implemented under investment and other support measures, which are differentiated according to the local Government of the area or part of the territory of socio-economic indicators, as well as the needs and development opportunities and are definitely planning region or local area development planning documents. 24. article. An area of regional policy, the determination of the area of regional policy, of pursuant to Latvia's sustainable development strategy. The area of the municipality within the regional policy guidelines for the assessment of the planning region development planning of territories. " 8. transitional provisions: to express the point 15 as follows: "Cabinet of Ministers 15. once every two years to draw up and submit to Parliament a report on the content of this law article 25 and the second subparagraph of article 26 implementation."; transitional provisions be supplemented by the following point 19:19 "Cabinet until June 30, 2014. does this law article 14, paragraph 5, the provisions referred to in the. Until the date of entry into force of rules, but no longer than up to 2014 to June 30 are applicable to the Cabinet of Ministers of 25 May 2010 rules no 482 "rules for calculation of the index for the development of the territory and its values". " The law shall enter into force on the day following its promulgation. The Parliament adopted the law in 2014 on April 3. The President a. Smith in Riga 2014 on April 15.