A national protocol for UK route development funds
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Policy background
- Purpose of a Protocol for UK RDFs
- Key Principles
- The Policy and Legal Context
- The Objectives of RDFs
- Establishing and Operating an RDF
- RDF governance arrangements
- Funding Applications
- Appraisal of Applications
- Payment
- Performance Review and Reporting
- Dispute Procedures
- Essential RDF Operating Requirements
- Introduction
- RDF Governance
- Advertising the Fund
- Procedures to Ensure Value for Money
- The Appraisal of Applications
- Key Compliance Criteria for award of RDF aid
- Meaning of "eligible costs"
- Marketing Funds
- Thresholds for New Routes
- Declaration of Other Aid
- Cross-regional funding
- Other provisions
