Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council extending and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1659/98 on decentralised cooperation
Date: 2001-10-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cooperation policy, decentralisation, developing countries, development aid

C 51 E/316

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Official Journal of the European Communities

26.2.2002

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council extending and amending
Council Regulation (EC) No 1659/98 on decentralised cooperation

(2002/C 51 E/11)

COM(2001) 576 final (cid:151) 2001/0243(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 23 October 2001)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

tation of operations in the years ahead. It shall inform the
European Parliament thereof.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 179(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty,

Whereas:

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1659/98 of 17 July 1998 on
decentralised cooperation is applicable until 31 December
2001 (1).

(2) The above Regulation should be

extended until 31
December 2003 and the financial allocation and reference
period indicated in Article 4(1) adjusted.

(3) Regulation
accordingly,

(EC) No 1659/98 should

be

amended

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1659/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)1.
Community financing of the operations referred to in
Article 1 shall cover a period of five years (1999 to 2003).
The financial allocation for
this
programme for the period 1999 to 2003 shall be EUR 24
million. The annual appropriations shall be authorised by
the budgetary authority within the limits of the financial
perspective.(cid:146)

the implementation of

be

2.
The programming of aid provided pursuant to this
Regulation shall, as far as possible, closely complement
consistent with aid provided under other
and
cooperation instruments
Community development
and
take particular account of
the cooperation strategy with
the country or region concerned.(cid:146)

3. The first two subparagraphs of Article 10 are replaced by

the following:

development policy,

(cid:145)As part of the annual report to the Council and Parliament
on the
the
implementation of
Commission shall present a summary of
the operations
financed and an evaluation of the implementation of this
Regulation during the year, as well as details of the decen-
tralised cooperation actors with whom contracts have been
concluded.(cid:146)

4. Article 12 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Eight months at least before this Regulation expires, the
Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and
the Council an overall assessment of the operations financed
by the Community under this Regulation, accompanied by
suggestions concerning the future of this Regulation.(cid:146)

5. The second subparagraph of Article 13 is replaced by the

following:

(cid:145)It shall apply until 31 December 2003.(cid:146)

Article 2

2. Article 9 is replaced by the following:

Every two years,

in accordance with the procedure
(cid:145)1.
referred to in Article 8(2) and (3), the Commission shall
adopt strategic guidelines and priorities for the implemen-

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States.

(1) OJ L 213, 30.7.1998, p. 6.