The Med programme covers the coastal and Mediterranean regions of nine Member States (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italia, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and United-Kingdom).

The Med programme has invited Mediterranean countries which are candidates or potential candidates to the European Union to join the programme.
With the starting of the programme, its cooperation area includes Croatia and Montenegro. These countries participate with the European funds of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA).

The programme website is http://www.programmemed.eu.

National contact points for the Balkan countries are:

for Croatia:

Darko Stilinović
Head of Department

Department for cross border, interregional and transnational cooperation
Directorate for integrated regional development
Ministry of regional development, forestry and water management

Vlaška 106
10 000 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia

Tel: +385 1 4695 835
Fax: +385 1 4695 819

Darko.Stilinovic@mmpi.hr

for Montenegro (updated on December 9, 2008):

Marija Maras
Secretariat for European Integration
Government of Montenegro

Stanka Dragojevica 2, 81000 Podgorica
Montenegro

Tel: +382 81 246 264
Fax: +382 81 244 824

marija.maras@gov.me

(Darko Kasalica
Secretariat for European Integration
Government of Montenegro

Stanka Dragojevica 2, 81000 Podgorica
Montenegro                              

Tel: +382 81 246 264
Fax: +382 81 244 824

darko.kasalica@gov.me)