PURPOSE : to revise the guidelines for the trans-European telecommunications networks.
COMMUNITY MEASURE : Decision 1376/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision 1336/97/EC on a series of guidelines for trans-European telecommunications networks.
CONTENT : the Council adopted a decision revising the guidelines which have been in force since 1997 for the trans-European telecommunications networks, by accepting all the amendments voted by European Parliament at first reading.
The amendments made to the guidelines in force take account of the a special report from the Court of Auditors on the implementation of this decision, as well as from an external evaluation, technological progress since 1997 and of the expertise acquired in the management of the programme. These amendments relate inter alia to the trans-European dimension of the projects concerned, the strategic priorities of the eEurope Action plan, the reduction of the number of fields covered by the projects, the deployment of the public services and the interconnection and the interoperability of the networks.�