Development cooperation with South Africa

On the basis of a report by Mr. Raimondo Fassa, the European Parliament put forward 6 amendments to the Commission's initial proposal. The Commission accepts one of these in full and two in part. It cannot accept the other three amendments. Those amendments that it does accept are designed to ensure a greater cordination and sustainability of programmes undertaken. The amendments which the Commission is unable to accept concerned committee procedures - rejected because clarity and consistency require that uniformity be maintained in matters of comitology; systematic co-ordination in the beneficiary country with the EIB - impractical as the EIB has no permanent representation; and the formalisation of transmission of evaluations and reports to the South African National Assembly, which would create a strange precedent.�