Programming Period 2014–2020 and other valid EU Guidelines. The criteria will be used to
assess both the readiness of the applicant for implementation, and also the need for and
relevance of the project, including technological feasibility, the economy of the budget and
other specific criteria. The general principles for assessment are based on the need to meet
the monitoring indicators given by the OP EIC, and hence the greatest emphasis will be
placed on the number of connected households at the most efficient cost. Points will also be
awarded for areas made up of over 75% of defined white areas. Points will also be awarded
to NGAs under construction that have higher parameters, cover a higher percentage of the
territory, and are more cost efficient. The economy of the projects from the perspective of
usual prices and also a well presented and a competitive environment promoting the
wholesale offer will also be very important. Emphasis will be placed on these principles
during evaluation. The issue of how to award point points will be addressed in a document
called “The Evaluation Criteria for the Selection of Applicants”, which will be published as an
Annex to a call under the specific objective 4.1 of the OP EIC. This document will favour
neither qualitative nor economic criteria for NGA network construction, but both parameters
should be balanced.
The OP EIC Monitoring Committee will decide on the exact wording of the criteria in
accordance with the process for selecting operations in the funding period 2014-2020.
The principles for the implementation of the subsidy mechanism are presented in Annex No
2. The principles and conditions for wholesale offers of access to NGAs built using subsidies
are presented in Annex No 3.
In other subsidy programmes dedicated to the support of NGA network development, which
have not been adopted by the Government, regions and municipalities as well as the
organisations and interest groups established or managed by regions or municipalities and
dedicated to the development of NGA networks, can also qualify as subsidy beneficiaries.
In order to ensure the development of digital services for citizens related to the digitisation of
public administrations, it appears appropriate to set a requirement to connect all objects of
public interest located in the area of intervention to NGA network infrastructure as a condition
for all publicly supported projects. Objects of public interest include buildings serving as
seats of public authorities and organisation of national strategic interest (schools, libraries,
healthcare centres, etc.). The list of address points related to the objects of public interest
shall be published and updated by the Ministry of Interior, while also enabling a remote
access to the list and its updates published on its websites. This condition can be applied to
subsidy programmes already adopted by the Government and dedicated to the support of
NGA network development, as long as the condition complies with the programmes’ rules
and objectives and it is approved by competent authorities.
6.4 Plan for investments into electronic communications networks
Public aid should be directed primarily to localities for which economic models for building
NGAs without this support would fail. The optimal definition of the supported territory will lead
to the highest possible coverage of today’s white areas, and concurrently to an increase in
coverage to the whole of the Czech Republic.
To achieve a blanket increase in the coverage of territory through an offer of high-speed
Internet access, respectively to eliminate as many white areas as possible in all regions of
the Czech Republic, for the use of public aid it is appropriate to map out the unavailability of
infrastructure over the smallest possible territorial units so that it will be possible to address
the support to the highest number of specific white areas.
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