PURPOSE : to amend the reference amounts - within the meaning of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999, Article 33 - of expenditure programmes adopted by the co-decision procedure, in order to take account of enlargement.
CONTENT : when adapting the financial perspective for the period 2000-2006 in order to take account of enlargement, the European Parliament and the Council agreed the following statement agreed to revise (by the end of the budgetary procedure for 2004) in accordance with the co-decision procedure, the reference amounts of the co-decided programmes within the limits of the ceiling resulting from the above-mentioned adjustment and revision of the financial perspective.
For all the co-decided programmes financed under heading 3 of the financial perspective (Internal Policies), it is therefore necessary to adapt the financial reference amounts included in each of the legislative acts concerned. The Commission, in the general introduction (volume 0) to the Preliminary Draft Budget, proposed new amounts for the reference amounts concerned, seeking a political agreement of the budgetary authority before submitting the corresponding legislative proposals.
The conciliation meeting of 24 November 2003 concluded on an agreement on adapted reference amounts as follows (in EUR million):
- 6th framework programme for research and technological development (02-06) : EUR 15 : 17.500,000; EUR 25 : 19.235,000; - Networks for the electronic interchange of data between administrations (IDA) (02-04) : EUR 15 : 74,000; EUR 25 : 75,500;
- Labour market (02-06) : EUR 15 : 55,000; EUR 25 : 62,300;
- Measures combating and preventing social exclusion (02-06) : EUR 15 : 75,000; EUR 25 85,040;
- Restructuring of systems for agricultural surveys : EUR 15 :12,850; EUR 25 : 26,400;
- Tapas - (03-07) :EUR 15 : 5,000; EUR 25 : 11,650;
- LUCAS/MARS (04-07) : EUR 15 : 7,850; EUR 25 : 14,750;
- Marco Polo Programme (03-06) EUR 15 : 75,000; EUR 100,000;
- Financial support for projects of common interest in the trans-European transport and energy network (00-06) : EUR 15 : 4.325,000; EUR 25 : 4.580,000;
- Intelligent Energy for Europe Programme (03-06) : EUR 15 : 200,000; EUR 25 : 250,000;
- Protection of forests (03-06) : EUR : 61,000; EUR : 65,000;
- Community action programme promoting NGOs primarily active in the field of environmental protection (02-06) : EUR : 32,000; EUR 25 : 34,300;
- LIFE III (Financial Instrument for the Environment (2000-2004)) - Actions on Community territory (01-04) : EUR : 640,000; EUR : 649,900;
- Community framework for cooperation to promote sustainable urban development (01-04) : EUR 15 : 14,000; EUR 25 : 14,800;
- Community cooperation in the field of marine pollution (00-06) : EUR 15 : 7,000; EUR 25 : EUR 25 : 12,600;
- Action on illegal and harmful content on the Internet (03-04) : EUR 15 : 13,300; EUR 25: 14,100;
- Trans-European telecommunications networks (00-06) : EUR 15 : 275,000; EUR 25 : 294,880;
- Customs 2007 (03-07) : EUR 15 : 133,000; EUR 25 : 165,550;
- Fiscalis 2007 (Community programme to improve the operation of taxation systems in the internal market) (03-07) : EUR 15 : 44,000; EUR 25 : 67,250;
- Socrates (00-06) : EUR 15 : 1.850,000; EUR 25 : 2.060,000;
- Framework programme in favour of culture (00-04) : EUR 15 : 167,000; EUR 25 : 170,700;
- Media (measures to promote the development of vocational training in the audiovisual industry) (01-05) : EUR 15 : 50,000; EUR 25 : 52,000;
- European Year of Education through Sport (03-04) : EUR 15 : 11,500; EUR 25 : 12,100;
- Youth (00-06) : EUR 15 : 520,000; EUR 25 : 605,000;
- Community activities in favour of consumers (04-07) : EUR 15 : 72,000; EUR 25 : 81,800;
- Public health (2003-2008) : EUR 15 : 312,000; EUR 25 : 353,770;
- Statistical information policy (03-07) : EUR 15 : 192,500; EUR 25 : 220,600;
- Networks for intra-Community statistics (Edicom) (01-05) : EUR 15 : 51,200; EUR 25 : 53,600;
- Modinis (03-05) : EUR 15 : 21,000; EUR 25 : 22,440.
TOTAL :
- Reference amounts : EUR 15 : 26.783,350.
- Amounts approved : EUR 29.364,630.�