European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the Tunisian Republic (COM(2003) 549 — C5-0469/2003 — 2003/0213(CNS))
Date: 2003-12-04
Institutions: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament
Subjects: Tunisia, cooperation agreement (EU), scientific cooperation

14.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 89 E/93

Thursday 4 December 2003

P5_TA(2003)0531

EC-Morocco *

European Parliament
for a Council decision on the
conclusion of the Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between the European
Community and the Kingdom of Morocco (COM(2003) 551 (cid:1) C5-0470/2003 (cid:1) 2003/0211(CNS))

legislative resolution on the proposal

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (COM(2003) 551) (1),

(cid:1) having regard to Articles 170 and 300(2), first subparagraph of the EC Treaty,

(cid:1) having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council

consulted Parliament (C5-0470/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to Rules 67, 97(7) and 158(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy

(A5-0403/2003),

1.

Approves conclusion of the agreement;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission, and the governments

2.
and parliaments of the Member States and the Kingdom of Morocco.

(1) Not yet published in the OJ.

P5_TA(2003)0532

EC-Tunisia *

European Parliament
for a Council decision on the
conclusion of the Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between the European
Community and the Tunisian Republic (COM(2003) 549 (cid:1) C5-0469/2003 (cid:1) 2003/0213(CNS))

legislative resolution on the proposal

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (COM(2003) 549) (1),

(cid:1) having regard to Articles 170 and 300(2), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty,

(cid:1) having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council

consulted Parliament (C5-0469/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to Rules 67, 97(7) and 158(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy

(A5-0404/2003),

(1) Not yet published in the OJ.

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1.

Approves conclusion of the agreement;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, the governments

2.
and parliaments of the Member States and the Tunisian Republic.

P5_TA(2003)0533

Amending Budget 6/2003

European Parliament resolution on Draft Amending Budget No 6/2003 of the European Union for
the financial year 2003 (14836/2003 (cid:1) C5-0567/2003 (cid:1) 2003/2197(BUD))

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty and Article 177 of the Euratom Treaty,

(cid:1) having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
the European Communities (1), and particularly

Regulation applicable to the general budget of
Articles 37 and 38 thereof,

(cid:1) having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2003, as finally

adopted on 19 December 2002 (2),

(cid:1) having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament,
the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary pro-
cedure (3),

(cid:1) having regard to preliminary Draft Amending Budget No 7/2003 of the European Union for the
financial year 2003, which the Commission presented on 29 October 2003 (SEC(2003) 1111),

(cid:1) having regard to Draft Amending Budget No 6/2003 of the European Union for the financial year

2003, which the Council established on 25 November 2003 (14836/2003 (cid:1) C5-0567/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to Rule 92 of and Annex IV to its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A5-0428/2003),

A. whereas the proposal to reduce by EUR 5 billion the payment appropriations entered in the 2003
budget for the completion of pre-2000 structural fund programmes runs contrary to the priority of
effectively implementing EU programmes rather than postponing them year after year or even cancel-
ling them altogether,

B. whereas such tendencies are particularly worrying in a situation where the political will to finally

implement and close the pre-2000 programmes must now be questioned,

C. whereas, however, a global agreement was reached on the 2004 budget, as well as on Amending
Budgets Nos 7 and 8, at the Budgetary Conciliation between Parliament and the Council on 24 Nov-
ember 2003,

(1) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 54, 28.2.2003.
(3) OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1. Agreement as amended by Decision 2003/429/EC of the European Parliament and of

the Council (OJ L 147, 14.6.2003, p. 25).