Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty concerning the common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of a Decision of the European Parliament and the Council establishing for the period 2007-2013 the specific programme "Fight against violence (Daphne III)" as part of the General programme "Fundamental Rights and Justice"
Date: 2007-03-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, action programme, violence

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels, 12.3.2007 
COM(2007) 102 final 

2005/0037A (COD) 

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT 
pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty 
concerning the 

common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of a Decision of the 
European Parliament and the Council establishing for the period 2007-2013 the specific 
programme "Fight against violence (Daphne III)" as part of the General programme 
"Fundamental Rights and Justice"  

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2005/0037A (COD) 

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT 
pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty 
concerning the 

common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of a Decision of the 
European Parliament and the Council establishing for the period 2007-2013 the specific 
programme "Fight against violence (Daphne III)" as part of the General programme 
"Fundamental Rights and Justice"  

1. 

BACKGROUND 

Date when the proposal was sent to the EP and to the 
Council(document COM([2006])[230] final - [2005]/[037A]COD): 

May 

2006: 
24 
amended 
(proposal 
after 
the 
splitting 
"Fight against  violence 
(Daphné 
and 
“Drugs  prevention  and 
information” 
programmes. 

III)” 

Date  of  the  opinion  of  the  European  Economic  and  Social 
Committee: 

19 January 2006 

Date of the opinion of the European Parliament, first reading: 

5 September 2006 

Date of adoption of the common position: 

5 March 2007 

2. 

OBJECTIVE OF THE COMMISSION PROPOSAL 

DAPHNE  III  is  a  financing  programme  with a  financial  package  of  €116.85  million  for  the 
period from 2007 to 2013 and pursuing the following objectives: 

To  prevent  and  combat  all  forms  of  violence  occurring  in  the  public  or  the  private  domain 
against children, young people and women by taking preventive measures and by providing 
support for victims and groups at risk; To promote transnational actions aimed at setting up 
multidisciplinary  networks,  ensuring  the  expansion  of  the  knowledge  base,  raising  public 
awareness  of  violence  and  studying  phenomena  related  to  violence,  and  exploring  and 
addressing the root causes of violence at all levels of society. 

3. 

COMMENTS ON THE COMMON POSITION 

The  Council  Common  Position  preserves  the  essence  of  the  original  Commission  proposal 
and takes the European Parliament’s main amendments at first reading into account. 

The  discussions  between  Parliament,  the  Council  and  the  Commission  have  produced  a 

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compromise text which is the basis for the Council Common Position. The basic differences 
between the common position and the original Commission proposal are as follows: 

The  "Daphne  III"  and  "Drugs  prevention  and  information"  programmes  are  split.  (The 
Commission itself proposed splitting them in its amended proposal of 24 May 2006. Articles 
2 and 3: the general and specific objectives of the programme have been redrafted for the sake 
of greater clarity.) 

Article  4(b):  a  proposal  for  a  specific  project  will  be  eligible  for  financing  if  it  involves  at 
least two Member States (instead of three, as originally proposed by the Commission). 

Article  4(d):  The  explicit  reference  to  an  operating  grant  for  the  European  Federation  for 
Missing and Sexually Exploited Children is deleted.  

Article  10:  As  regards  committee  procedures,  the  compromise  text  adopts  the  double 
committee principle (management committee for the adoption of the annual work programme 
and  advisory  committee  for  other  questions),  while  the  original  Commission  proposal 
envisaged only an advisory committee. 

A European Parliament and Council statement calls on the Commission to consider a possible 
initiative for a European year against violence against children, adolescents and women. 

Other  Parliamentary  amendments  concerning  drafting  changes  to  improve  the  text  are  also 
taken over. 

4. 

CONCLUSIONS 

The Commission accepts the common position, which incorporates the main elements of its 
original  proposal  and  its  amended  proposal  of  24  May  2006  and  the  main  amendments 
adopted by the European Parliament.  

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