10/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 12 January the Commissioner for Regional Policy Danuta Hübner will be taking part in the launch of JASPERS (Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions) and the EIB in Warsaw. JASPERS is a major joint policy initiative of the European Investment Bank, European Commission (DG Regional Policy) and the EBRD (EUROPE 9201), which aims to assist beneficiary countries (principally the new Member States and accession countries of the EU) to prepare major infrastructure projects which will be assisted by the EU Structural and Cohesion Funds over the next budgetary planning period 2007-2013. Commissioner Hübner will also be meeting Ms Grazyna Gesicka, Minister for Regional Development in Poland, on this occasion. (gb)