It is responsible for overall guidance and coordination for development of the national vet system. this body represents all the stakeholders — including the line ministries responsible for vet — employers and social partners. one of the outputs from this council has been the decision to further streamline responsibility for vet institutions. as a result, one of the conditions being developed under the 2009 follow-up support programme for vet is the adoption of a strategy for transferring all middle professional and preliminary education institutions to place them under the administrative authority of the ministry of education and science. reply of the commIssIon 39. (c) the commission acknowledges that the needs for refurbishment works in the colleges concerned are substantial and that, in some cases, upgrading of the facilities has not been completed due to the scale of the work to be performed. for all institutions concerned, the work remaining to be done was identified by external consultants in early 2010 and has been annexed to the 2009 vet follow-up reform programme conditionality matrix in order to set specific targets for the work to be reviewed during the relevant disbursement verification mission. 43. the delay in implementation of the sector budget support (sbs) on energy was due to the government of azerbaijan’s slow adaptation to a new method of implementation, including its related efforts to set up an internal mechanism to manage the programme (see the reply to observation 32 (c)). the mechanism was approved by a governmental decree in november 2009. since the time of the audit, the commission received a request for payment of the first tranche of the 2007 sbs, which was released in june 2010. the steering committee was set up in early 2010 and the delegation has already started the policy dialogue on implementation of the conditions for the second tranche. the government of azerbaijan has already implemented one key condition for the second tranche, by setting up and staffing an agency for renewable and alternative energy sources, by presidential decree. special report no 13/2010 – Is the new european neighbourhood and partnership Instrument successfully launched and achieving results in the southern caucasus (armenia, azerbaijan and georgia)? 
43. förseningen i genomförandet av det sektorsindelade budgetstödet på energiområdet berodde på att det tog lång tid för den azerbajdzjanska regeringen att anpassa sig till den nya genomförandemetoden och att arbetet med att inrätta en intern mekanism för att förvalta programmet drog ut på tiden (se svaret på anmärkning 32 c). mekanismen antogs genom ett regeringsdekret i november 2009. sedan tidpunkten för revisionen har kommissionen mottagit en begäran om utbetalning av den första delbetalningen av det sektorsindelade budgetstödet för 2007, som betalades ut i juni 2010. styrkommittén inrättades tidigt 2010 och delegationen har redan inlett den politiska dialogen om uppfyllandet av villkoren för den andra delbetalningen. azerbajdzjans regering har dessutom redan uppfyllt ett centralt villkor för den andra delbetalningen genom att via ett presidentdekret inrätta en byrå för förnybara och alternativa energikällor och anställa personal till denna byrå. särskild rapport nr 13/2010 – Har det nya europeiska grannskaps-och partnerskapsinstrumentet införts på ett bra sätt och leder det till att resultat uppnås i södra kaukasien (armenien, azerbajdzjan och georgien)?