Council Regulation (EC) No 1900/2005 of 21 November 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 concerning the implementation of projects promoting cooperation and commercial relations between the European Union and the industrialised countries of North America, the Far East and Australasia
Date: 2005-11-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU programme, Far East, North America, Oceania, action programme, cooperation policy, education grant, industrialised country, vocational training

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1900/2005

of 21 November 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 concerning the implementation of projects promoting
cooperation and commercial relations between the European Union and the industrialised
countries of North America, the Far East and Australasia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

coordination of
between the partner countries concerned.

the supported activities within and

Having regard to the Treaty
establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 133 and 181a thereof,

(5)

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Whereas:

of

the

budget
for

the possibility of awarding grants

The second subparagraph of Article 114(1) of Council
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June
2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the
European Communities (3)
general
provides
to
natural persons, by way of exception, when provided
for by the basic act. Such situations arise regularly in
connection with the implementation of
the Executive
Training Programmes in Japan and in Korea and may
occasionally arise in the case of other cooperation
activities with industrialised countries,
in particular in
the framework of education cooperation or people-to-
people exchanges.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 (2) provides
legal
framework for
the enhancement of cooperation and
commercial relations with the industrialised countries of
North America, the Far East and Australasia until 31
December 2005.

a

framework for the
Certain future aspects of the legal
external
area of
intervention in the
Community
relations,
including the promotion of cooperation and
economic relations with industrialised countries, during
the next period of Financial Perspectives (2007-2013) are
yet to be determined. At the earliest, such new legal
framework may apply from 1 January 2007.

it

is crucial

to ensure continuity in cooperation
As it
is therefore
activities with industrialised countries,
necessary to avoid the potential absence of a legal basis
for those activities between the current expiry date of
Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 and the date from which
a new legal framework may apply. Extending the validity
of Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 for an appropriate
period will make it possible to bridge any potential gap
in the legal
framework governing cooperation with
industrialised countries.

The extension in time of Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 is
all the more justified as the evaluation carried out in
2004 of the projects and programmes financed under
that Regulation established their effectiveness and called
for their continuation with due attention to be paid to

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 382/2001 is hereby amended as follows:

1. In Article 5, the following paragraph shall be added:

‘When appropriate, in particular in the case of education and
training projects, or other similar projects from which indi-
viduals may benefit, Community support may take the form
of grants to natural persons. These grants may take the form
of scholarships.’.

2. In Article 7, the following paragraph shall be added:

‘To this effect, Community support may take the form of
grants to natural persons. These grants may take the form of
scholarships.’.

3. In Article 13, the second paragraph shall be replaced by the

following:

‘It shall expire on 31 December 2007.’.

(1) Opinion of 23.6.2005 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(2) OJ L 57, 27.2.2001, p. 10.

(3) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 21 November 2005.

For the Council
The President

J. STRAW