Crete: Regional Council meets on 25/9

The Regional Council of Crete meets on Friday, 25 September 2026, at 12:00, on the ground floor of the new Regional Administration building at 56 Monis Kardiotiisis Street in Heraklion. According to an announcement from the Crete Region, the agenda includes three main matters: amendments to the 2026 tourism promotion programme, a gender equality action plan for 2026-2028, and the 2027 olive fly control programme. The regional council is the elected collective body of the Region and is responsible for approving such programmes, so Friday’s meeting is expected to set the direction of several policies for the coming period.

One of the matters under discussion concerns amendments to the Region’s 2026 tourism promotion programme. A tourism promotion programme is the tool through which a region plans its advertising and promotional presence in foreign and domestic markets, determining actions, participation in exhibitions, and cooperation with tourism bodies. Amendments to such a programme, while the year is under way, typically aim to adapt the planning to new market conditions or promotional opportunities that arise during the tourism season. The Region’s announcement does not specify the content of the amendments to be put to a vote, nor does it say which parts of the original planning are changing, leaving details to emerge from discussion and the presentation to the council.

The same meeting is expected to discuss the 2027 olive fly control programme, that is, the annual, state-funded campaign against the olive fly. This is a matter of particular importance for Crete, where olive cultivation occupies a large part of agricultural land and timely organization of olive fly control directly affects the quality and quantity of olive production each year. Likewise, the agenda includes a gender equality action plan for 2026-2028, a matter concerning the Region’s planning of equality policies for the next three-year period. For both matters, the announcement is limited to naming them as agenda items, without providing further details about the content, objectives, or budget of the proposals to be presented to the council.

The Crete Region’s announcement concerns only the convening of the meeting and the agenda items, without including decisions, figures, or numerical information on any of the matters to be discussed. It has not been announced which council members will speak on the matters, nor the outcome of any votes, as these will be determined after the completion of Friday, 25 September 2026 meeting. Until then, the three matters—the 2026 tourism promotion programme, the 2026-2028 gender equality action plan, and the 2027 olive fly control programme—remain at the stage of proposals to the Regional Council.