CELEX: 51987PC0531
Language: en
Date: 1987-11-02
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION DETERMINING THE GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR 1988 CONCERNING FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL AID TO LATIN AMERICAN AND ASIAN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

3. 12. 87                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No C 323/11
                             Article 20                                  2.     This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day
                                                                         of the second month following the date on which the
This Protocol shall be annexed to the Cooperation                        notifications provided for in paragraph 1 have been
Agreement concluded between the European Economic                        given.
Community and the Republic of Lebanon.
                             Article 21
                                                                                                  Article 22
1.     This Protocol shall be subjet to approval in
accordance with the Contracting Parties' own pro-                        This Protocol is drawn up in two original copies in the
cedures; the Contracting Parties shall notify one another                Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian,
that the procedures necessary to this end have been                      Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic languages, each of these
completed.                                                               texts being equally authentic.
                                                                  ANNEX
               I. Draft statements for entry in the minutes of the negotiations
                  1. Joint statement re Article 5 (2)
                     'It is understood that the application of Article 5 (2) is subject to the submission of mutually
                     acceptable projects by the Lebanese Government.'
                  2. Statement by the Community delegation re Article 12
                     'The provisions of the Financial Protocol are without prejudice to the general question of the origin
                     of aid eligible for financing by the Bank from its own resources or from risk capital and do not, in
                     this connection, affect the exercise by the Bank's bodies of their powers under the Statute of the
                     Bank.
                     The grants for the financing of technical cooperation may be used to finance aid originating outside
                     the Community and the recipient State, in the event of joint co-financing and where the wisdom of
                     using that type of co-financing has been shown.'
               Proposal for a Council Decision determining the general guidelines for 1988 concerning
                           financial and technical aid to Latin American and Asian developing countries
                                                           COM(87) 531 final
                                  (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 9 November 1987)
                                                              (87/C 323/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                          Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 442/81                      liament,
 of 17 February 1981 on financial and technical aid to
 non-associated developing countries ( l ), and in particular
Article 9 (2) thereof,
                                                                          Whereas the general guidelines should be determined for
                                                                          the administration by the Commission of financial and
 (') OJ No L 48, 21. 2. 1981, p. 8; since 1986 these countries            technical aid to non-associated Latin American and
     have been designated Latin American and Asian countries.             Asian countries in 1988,
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HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:                                             (EEC) No 442/81 and all other provisions which are
                                                                    applicable.
                          Article 1
                                                                    Funds shall be allocated to projects and programmes,
                  Objectives and priorities
                                                                    due account being taken of:
Community aid shall concentrate on helping the poorest             — the availability and state of readiness of specific
countries and the neediest sections of the population.                  operations, their intrinsic value to development and
                                                                        the degree to which they correspond to the priorities
Priority shall be given to the rural sector and, in
particular, to measures aimed at improving the food                     of the recipient countries and the regions and the
situation, as a contribution towards the campaign to                    needs of the poorest sections of the population,
combat hunger in the world. Within the rural sector,                — the income levels and development needs of the
production and support services and also operations in                  recipient countries, the volume of funding provided
the sphere of social infrastructure shall receive special               in previous years and the experience gained in
attention, but the need to place the emphasis, in the                   implementing past aid,
projects and programmes adopted, on the training of
farmers and middle-level staff will also be borne in mind.          — cooperation agreements concluded with certain
                                                                        recipient countries or groups of recipient countries.
In those countries where this is a necessary essential pre-
liminary, ad hoc training projects may be considered.               The Commission and the Member States shall continue
                                                                    to make serious efforts to increase the volume of co-
Wherever possible, Community aid will be used to                    financing, notably between the Community and the
prepare and implement general agricultural policies (food           Member States.
strategies), incorporating, where necessary, food aid.
In exceptional circumstances aid may be allocated for                                          Article 4
general infrastructure in the specific case of least
developed countries where its lack holds back rural                                       Special provisions
development.
                                                                    The reserve referred to in Article 3 (3) of Regulation
Support for regional integration operations will be main-           (EEC) No 442/81 shall be set at 6 % of the level of
tained and stepped up in all sectors where Community                appropriations.
support can make a positive contribution.
                                                                    The Community shall continue to assist international
                                                                    agricultural research. Not excluding aid to other
                          Article 2
                                                                    national, regional or international institutes, aid to
                  Geoegraphical allocation                          institutes of the Consultative Group on International
                                                                    Agricultural Research (CGIAR) shall be maintained at
The geographical allocation of funds shall be as follows:           the same level as in 1987.
Asia 75 %, Latin America 25 %, without prejudice to the
provisions of Article 4.                                            With regard to the cost of administering the 1988
                                                                    programme (use of outside experts, provision of
                                                                    specialists), the upper limit shall be set at 3 %.
                          Article 3
                   Implementation of aid                            A reserve of 10 % of the available appropriations
                                                                    following deduction from the budget headings referred
The aid may be granted for projects and programmes,                 to in this Article shall be constituted. This reserve may be
 including, where appropriate, integrated projects and              used for appropriate operations of the same kind as
 sectoral programmes, in accordance with Regulation               - those provided for under Article 3.