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Pursuant to Article 6(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1734/94, the Commission carried out an external evaluation of the programmeŐs main projects. 
I enlighet med artikel 6.2 i rdets frordning (EG) nr 1734/ 94 gjorde kommissionen en extern utvrdering av de viktigaste projekten i programmet.
The evaluation focused on projects in the fields of support to the private sector, infrastructure, education and institutional capacity building. 
Utvrderingen koncentrerades p projekt som avsg std till den privata sektorn, infrastruktur, utbildning och uppbyggande av myndigheter.
The Commission set out its comments on the follow-up of the evaluation in two docu-(1) MSP I-II, MSP III, school construction, technical assistance to the PLC, 2 institutional capacity building, PHC. () University equipment, OT/96/02a, and school construction, OT/96/ 3 02b. () European Gaza Hospital, PHC, institutional capacity building, family planning. ments of September and November 1999, which were presented to a Council Working Group. 
Kommissionen samlade sina kommentarer till utvrderingen i tv dokument frn septem-(1) MSP I-II, MSP III, byggande av skolor, tekniskt bistnd till PLC, upp-2 byggnad av myndigheter, PHC. () Universitetsutrustning, OT/96/02a, och byggande av skolor, OT/96/ 3 02b. () Europeiska sjukhuset i Gaza, PHC, uppbyggnad av myndigheter, famil-jeplanering. ber och november 1999, som lades fram fr en av rdets arbetsgrupper.
However, the list of the actions to be taken was insufficiently precise and did not have a definite timetable. 
Frteckningen ver de tgrder som skall vidtas var inte tillrckligt exakt och det fanns inget faststllt tidsschema.
Apart from the global evaluation mentioned in the previous paragraph, concerning one project examined which was implemented in two subsequent phases, the Commission stated, at the request of the Member StatesŐ representatives in the Med-Committee,thatitwouldcarryoutanevaluationofthefirstphase; however, the second phase was prepared and approved before that evaluation report was available (4). 
Kommissionen meddelade att den, p begran av medlemsstaternas representanter i Med-kommittn, frutom den vergripande utvrdering som nmndes i fregende punkt, skulle utvrdera den frsta fasen i ett av de granskade projekten som skulle genomfras i tv p varandra fljande faser. Den andra fasen frbereddes och godkndes emellertid innan denna utvrderingsrapport fanns tillgnglig (4).
FINDINGS ON THE PROJECTS EXAMINED The European Gaza Hospital 66. 
GRANSKNINGSRESULTAT F R DE GRANSKADE PROJEKTEN Europeiska sjukhuset i Gaza 66.
The European Gaza Hospital is a huge project (32,4 million euro committed), in an area and field where aid is much needed, and has a very high visibility. 
Europeiska sjukhuset i Gaza r ett gigantiskt projekt (taganden har gjorts fr 32,4 miljoner euro) p en plats och inom en sektor dr mycket bistnd behvs och det r ett mycket framtrdande projekt med hg profil.
In this case, the Commission did not take active responsibility in the early years of the project, other than by providing the funds, while leaving everything else to UNRWA. 
I det hr fallet hade kommissionen inget aktivt ansvar under projektets frsta r, utan bidrog endast med ekonomiska medel och verlt allt annat t UNRWA.
Although the Commission had no representation on thespotuntil1994,itdidnotconsideritnecessarytoarrangefor any form of expert-type independent monitoring of the project. 
Fastn kommissionen inte hade ngon representant p platsen frrn 1994, ansg den inte att det var ndvndigt att anlita ngon form av expert som kunde gra en oberoende vervakning av projektet.
From the beginning of 1995 the question of the operation andmanagementofthehospitalwasunderdiscussionbetween the three parties involved (PA, UNRWA, EC). 
Frn brjan av 1995 diskuterade de tre inblandade parterna (PA, UNRWA och EG) hur sjukhuset skulle drivas och ledas.
In April 1996 the Commission for the first time expressed the need for an international management consultant to be engaged, but no concrete action was taken. 
I april 1996uttrycktekommissionenfrfrstagngenensiktomatt det fanns ett behov av att anstlla en internationell management-konsult, men inga konkreta tgrder vidtogs.
When UNRWAŐs financial problems became apparentinSeptember1996,theCommissionfeltthatUNRWA might have lost control of the project, and it decided (September 1996) to take action and sent in consultants to review the situation (end 1996). 
Nr UNRWA:s ekonomiska problem uppenbarades i september 1996 insg kommissionen att UNRWA mjligen hade tappat kontrollen ver projektet. Kommissionen beslt (i september 1996) att vidta tgrder och skickade in konsulter som skulle g igenom rendet (i slutet av 1996).
In the light of their reports, the Commission started to take control of the project (March 1997) and was able: (a) to convince UNRWA to take responsibility for the project until the Palestinian authority was able to take over ownership; (b) to obtain the agreement of the Palestinian authorities to take over the running of and the financial responsibility for the hospital; and (c) to obtain the agreement of both parties for an international managementteaminchargeofcommissionning. 
Mot bakgrund av deras rapporter brjade kommissionen verta kontrollen av projektet (i mars 1997) och kunde a) vertyga UNRWA att ta ansvar fr projektet tills den palestinska myndigheten kunde ta ver gandeansvaret, b) inhmta de palestinska myndigheternas medgivande till att verta drivandet av sjukhuset och det ekonomiska ansvaret, samt c) inhmta bda parters medgivande fr ett internationellt fr-valtningsteam som skter uppdragsfrdelningen.
4 () School construction phase II. 
4 () Byggande av skolor, fas II.
C 32/14 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 31.1.2001 The Commission initiated three different lines of action to provide funds for physical alterations to the hospital, for the purchase of final equipment and supplies and for the International Management Team (IMT). 
C 32/14 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning 31.1.2001 Kommissionen inledde tre olika handlingsplaner fr att skaffa fram medel fr ombyggnad av sjukhuset, fr att anskaffa slutlig utrustning och frbrukningsmaterial och fr den internationella ledningsgruppen.
However, the administrative process leading up to the three related Financing Agreements was rather poorly handled by the Commission (1). 
Det administrativa frfarandet som ledde fram till de tre sammanhngande finansieringsverenskommelserna skttes emellertid ganska dligt av kommissionen (1).
All deadlines and/or timetables set/prepared by the Commission were grossly optimistic and systematically overestimated the CommissionŐs own capacity to get the necessary administrative actions prepared, decided and implemented. 
Samtliga tidsfrister och tidsscheman som sattes upp eller frbereddes av kommissionen, var verdrivet optimistiska och verskattade systematiskt kommissionens egen kapacitet att frbereda, besluta om och genomfra ndvndiga administrativa tgrder.
Consequently, it took the Commission more than two years(countingfromMarch1997)beforeitsactivitiesresultedin any action on the ground, i.e. the arrival of the IMT in August 1999. 
Fljaktligen tog det kommissionen mer n tv r (rknat frn mars 1997) innan dess arbete ledde till ngon tgrd p fltet, dvs. att den internationella ledningsgruppen anlnde i augusti 1999.
At that time however, the Financing Agreement for the remodelling work on the hospital had still not been signed by UNRWA. 
Vid denna tidpunkt hade emellertid finansieringsverenskommelserna fr ombyggnadsarbetet p sjukhuset fortfarande inte undertecknats av UNRWA.
The Palestine Housing Council (PHC) 69. 
Palestinska bostadsrdet (Palestine Housing Council, PHC) 69.
At the beginning of its programme of assistance to Palestinian society, in 1991 the Commission decided to provide assistance to the newly-established Palestine Housing Council (PHC). 
Nr bistndsprogrammet till Palestina inleddes 1991, beslutade kommissionen att ge bistnd till det nyetablerade palestinska bostadsrdet, PHC.
In view of the political as well as social importance of housing for the Palestinians at this time, as well as the untried nature of the PHC, this was an ambitious step for which the Commission deserves credit. 
Med tanke p den politiska och sociala betydelse som bostder till palestinierna hade vid denna tidpunkt, samt PHC:s obeprvade form, var detta ett ambitist steg fr vilket kommissionen frtjnar berm.
The intention, as expressed in the Financing Agreements of 1991 and 1994, was to establish a credit-funded housing programme. 
Enligt finansieringsverenskommelserna frn 1991 och 1994, var avsikten att upprtta ett lnebaserat program fr att bygga bostder.
Although beneficiaries were not required to pay the full economic cost of the units, the repayment terms were to be established so as to create a revolving fund for future housing development. 
Fastn stdmottagarna inte behvde betala hela kostnaden fr enheterna, skulle terbetalningsvillkoren utformas s att det skapades en revolverande fond fr utveckling av framtida bostadsbyggande.
The initial project documents referred to housing for lower or modest income families, but the project was not established as a social housing programme. 
I de frsta projektdokumenten handlade det om bostder fr familjer med lg eller ringa inkomst, men projektet klassificerades inte som ett program fr sociala bostder.
Other objectives fixed for the programme were to provide employment to Palestinians who had lost their jobs in Israel, stimulate internal economic activity in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, encourage training in construction methods and management, and institution building (2). 
Det faststlldes ven andra ml fr programmet som att ge anstllning t palestinier som frlorat sina arbeten i Israel, stimulera intern ekonomisk tillvxt i Gazaremsan och p Vstbanken, uppmuntra utbildning i konstruktionsmetoder och konstruktionsled-ning, samt att bygga upp myndigheter (2).
As the PHC was a new organisation, the Financing Agreements provided for technical assistance of a technical and management nature to be provided to it. 
Eftersom PHC var en ny organisation faststlldes i finansieringsverenskommelserna att den skulle tilldelas tekniskt bistnd av tekniskt och ledningsmssigt slag.
Various technical assistance inputs were, however, provided by the Commission during the life of the project. 
Kommissionen tillhandahll emellertid tekniskt bistnd i olika former under projektets livslngd.
In 1998, the Financial Controller of the Commission reported the following weaknesses in the project (3): (a)therehadbeensignificantcostincreases,whichmeantthat the housing units were no longer affordable for Palestinians earning low and average incomes; (b) part of these cost increases were due to inappropriate architectural design, the use of Italian marble in the flats, and the increased size of the units; (c) therateofsaleswaslow(30%)sothattherevolvingfundwas notbeingestablished; (d) the PHC was in breach of the Financing Agreements (4); (e) the provisions of the Financing Agreements, notably in the areas of reporting and Commission influence on key decisions, were deficient. 
Kommissionens controller rapporterade 1998 om fljande svagheter i projektet (3): a) Kostnaderna hade kat markant, vilket innebar att palestinier med lga och genomsnittliga inkomster inte lngre hade rd med bostderna. b) En del av dessa kostnadskningar berodde p att arkitekturen var olmplig, p att man anvnt italiensk marmor i lgenheterna och p att lgenheternas storlek hade kats. c) Antalet slda lgenheter var lgt (30 %) och drfr upprttades inte ngon revolverande fond. d) PHC brt mot finansieringsverenskommelserna (4). e) Bestmmelserna i finansieringsverenskommelserna, framfr allt vad gller rapportering och kommissionens inflytande p viktiga beslut, var bristflliga.
The operational services did not reply to these observations. 
De operativa avdelningarna besvarade inte dessa iakttagelser.
Following the mission of the Financial Controller, a further audit of the PHC projects was launched by the CommissionŐs operational services. 
Till fljd av controllerns besk initierade kommissionens operativa avdelningar ytterligare en granskning av PHC-projekten.
This found that, while it was true that there had been cost overruns, the PHC suffered from various management deficiencies, and the allocation of the units in Gaza had not been in accordance with the terms of the Financing Agreement, the Commission had, however, not provided the technical assistance to the PHC provided for in the Financing Agreement. 
Vid denna granskning framkom att det visserligen var sant att kostnaderna hade verskridits, att det fanns olika brister i ledningen av PHC och att frdelningen av bostderna i Gaza inte gjorts enligt bestmmelserna i finansieringsverenskommelsen, men ocks att kommissionen inte lmnat det tekniska bistnd till PHC som angavs i finansieringsverenskommelsen.
It was, therefore, not in a strong position to reclaim any funds from the PHC. 
Kommissionen hade drfr inte en s stark stllning att den kunde krva ngra pengar tillbaka frn PHC.
Further, with regard to the final payment due of 6,7 million euro (out of total funding of 39 million euro), it argued that the Commission could either decide to withhold it or set certain strict conditions on its payment. 
Betrffande den slutliga betalningen p 6,7 miljoner euro som terstod att gra (av totalt 39 miljoner euro), freslogs att kommissionen antingen skulle besluta sig fr att kvarhlla pengarna eller faststlla strnga villkor fr utbetalningen.
At the end of 1999, more than one year had passed without any action on this audit report, and with no service of the Commission aware of the need to react one way or the other Ń the matter was entirely blocked. 
Vid slutet av 1999 hade ver ett r frflutit utan att ngon tgrd vidtagits med utgngspunkt frn denna granskningsrapport och eftersom man inte vid ngon av kommissionens avdelningar var medveten om att man mste reagera p ngot stt, blockerades rendet fullstndigt.
At the end of 1999 the management of the PHC was still hoping that the Commission would resume its support. 
Vid slutet av 1999 hoppades PHC:s ledning fortfarande p att kommissionen skulle teruppta sitt bistnd.
In some respects, the PHC project can be considered a success. 
I vissa avseenden kan PHC-projektet betraktas som en framgng.
1 100 flats were constructed on 19 sites, to a reasonably good standard (5). 
1 100 lgenheter byggdes p 19 tomter, med en ganska god standard (5).
In addition to the employment of building 3 () All of these criticisms were based on documents in ECRO and discus-4 sions with ECTAO personnel. () ECRO had formally pointed this out to the management of the PHC 5 in March 1996. () The European ParliamentŐs rapporteur noted that the USAID units were finished to a higher, more expensive, standard than those funded by the Commission. 
Frutom att byggnadsarbetare anstlldes, fick ven 3 () All denna kritik baserades p dokument frn ECRO och diskussioner 4 med personalen vid ECTAO. (5) ECRO ppekade detta formellt i mars 1996 fr PHC:s ledning. () Europeiska parlamentets fredragande noterade att USAID:s lgenheter frdigstlldes till en hgre och dyrare standard n dem som finansierades av kommissionen.
The units seen by the CourtŐs auditors were not luxurious by the standards of the area. 
De lgenheter som revisionsrttens revisorer sg var inte srskilt lyxiga i frhllande till standarden i omrdet.
31.1.2001 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 32/15 workers, Palestinian professionals (architects etc.) found employment after being expelled from the Gulf. 
31.1.2001 SV Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella tidning C 32/15 hgutbildade palestinier (arkitekter etc.) anstllning sedan de hade frvisats frn gulfstaterna.
The claims concerning the use of Italian marble are not confirmed by any objective evidence, and it is surprising that the operational services of the Commissionfailedtorebutthechargesemphatically.Whileitis true that the unit costs rose because of lack of financial planning and poor cost control by the PHC, including relaxing the size of the accommodation, some, at least, of the cost increases (1) were due to the impact of closures and strikes on the cost of building materials. 
Uppgiften om att italiensk marmor anvnts har inte bekrftats av ngon objektiv klla och det r frvnande att kommissionens operativa avdelningar inte lyckades tillbakavisa anklagelserna med skrpa. ven om det r riktigt att kostnadskningarna fr bostderna berodde p bristande ekonomisk planering och dlig kostnadskontroll frn PHC:s sida samt minskad kontroll av bostdernas storlek, berodde tminstone en del av kostnadskningarna (1) p de effekter stngningar av grnsen och strejker hade p kostnaderna fr byggnadsmaterial.
Although the PHC failed initially to stop its Director in Gaza from allocating units without applying the repayment conditions provided for, which subsequently led to a decline in repayments on the units in the West Bank (2), at the end of 1999 there was some evidence that the PHC was in the process of turning this round. 
Fastn PHCibrjanmisslyckadesmedatthindrasindirektriGazafrn att frdela lgenheter utan att tillmpa de verenskomna terbe-talningsvillkoren, vilket sedan ledde till en minskning av terbetalningarna frn lgenheterna p Vstbanken (2), fanns det i slutet av 1999 vissa tecken p att PHC hll p att f ordning p situationen.
Reporting provisions were weak. In the first Financing Agreement, insufficient provision was provided for managerial technical assistance, despite this project having an important institution-building component. 
Rapporteringsbestmmelserna var dliga. I den frsta finansieringsverenskommelsen var bestmmelserna otillrckliga fr det ledningstekniska bistndet, trots att detta projekt r en viktig del i uppbyggandet av myndigheter.
Although the Commission followed the project closely, by means of ECTAO staff and technical assistants, the records of meetings reveal at times considerable tension, indeed breakdown in communication, between the PHC and the Commission. 
Fastn kommissionen fljde upp projektet noggrant med hjlp av personal frn ECTAO och tekniska assistenter, visar mtesanteck-ningar att spnningen ibland var hg Đ man kan faktiskt tala om sammanbrott i kommunikationerna Đ mellan PHC och kommis-sionen.venomdendirektaorsakentillattdenstoraupphand- lingen av tekniskt bistnd misslyckades mste skas hos PHC, kvarstr det faktum att en av de viktigaste delarna till PHC-projektet, som kommissionen skulle tillhandahlla, av ngon anledning aldrig blev verklighet.
Projects in support of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Construction of a building for the temporary seat of the PLC 76. 
Projekt till std fr det palestinska lagstiftande rdet (Palestinian Legislative Council, PLC) Byggande av ett tillflligt ste fr PLC 76.
In 1997, the Commission committed 5 million euro to finance the construction of a building for the temporary seat of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah. 
Kommissionen gjorde 1997 taganden fr 5 miljoner euro fr att finansiera byggandet av en fastighet som skulle utgra PLC:s tillflliga ste i Ramallah.
Delays in approving the Financing Agreement were caused in part by the PA changing the location of the building. 
Frseningar med att godknna finansieringsverenskommelsen orsakades delvis av att PA ndrade platsen fr byggnaden.
According to the Financing Agreement, the project had an implementation period of two years, from August1999toAugust2001.However,attheendof1999,after several denials from the Palestinian authorities it was found that (1) It is a valid point of criticism that the reporting provisions and the CommissionŐs monitoring of the project did not permit cost variances 2 to be identified and explained in the normal manner. () Which had been allocated in accordance with the agreed terms and conditions, and where the beneficiaries had started to repay the loans correctly. they had already begun to construct a building for the Palestinian Legislative Council in another location, in the context of a different project, not funded by the EU; this rendered the EU project superfluous. 
I slutet av 1999, efter flera nekanden frn de palestinska myndigheternas sida, fann man att dessa redan pbr-(1) Kritiken r berttigad vad gller rapporteringsbestmmelserna och kommissionens vervakning av projektet, som inte medgav att kost-2 nadsavvikelser identifierades och frklarades p vanligt stt. () Dessa hade frdelats i enlighet med de verenskomna villkoren och stdmottagarna hade brjat betala tillbaka lnen p ett korrekt stt. jat byggnadsarbetet fr PLC p en annan plats, inom ramen fr ett annat projekt som inte finansieras av EU.
Provision of technical assistance and equipment to the PLC 77. 
Tillhandahllande av tekniskt bistnd och utrustning till PLC 77.
Another high profile project, involving the provision of technical assistance and equipment to the PLC, for which 3 million euro was committed, has suffered particularly badly as a result of the CommissionŐs handling of procurement procedures. 
Ett annat projekt med framtrdande profil, som omfattade tekniskt bistnd och material till PLC och fr vilket taganden p 3 miljoner euro gjordes, har pverkats srskilt negativt till fljd av kommissionens handlggning av upphandlingsfrfarandena.
The CommissionŐs service responsible for the implementation of the project included in its invitation to tender for the provision of technical assistance the same firm which, under a short-term technical assistance contract in the preparatory phase of the same project, had drafted the terms of reference for the invitation to tender and the project definition report; these documents were annexed to the tender documentation. 
Den avdelning vid kommissionen som r ansvarig fr att genomfra projektet, lt samma fretag som hade stllt upp villkoren fr anbudsinfordran och projektdefinitionsrapporten, vilka bifogades anbudsdokumentationen, delta i anbudsinfordran fr det tekniska bistndet. Fretaget hade medverkat i den frberedande fasen fr samma projekt eftersom det haft ett korttidskontrakt avseende tekniskt bistnd.
Of the five firms which had been invited to tender, this one was the only bidder. 
Av de fem fretag som uppmanats att lmna in anbud var detta den enda anbudsgivaren.
The short-term technical assistance contract with the abovementioned consultant, which had been concluded by private treaty, was extended until January 1997. 
Korttidskontraktet avseende tekniskt bistnd med ovannmnda konsult, vilket hade ingtts genom en privat verenskommelse, frlngdes till januari 1997.
The consultant was then awarded a new contract, from May to September 1997, also by private treaty (3). Although the activities carried out, as described in the final report by the consultant, were in accordance with the terms of reference of the contracts, the PLC representatives, met by the auditors on the spot, stated that they were not satisfied mainly because of a lack of consultation with the PLC on the matter. 
Konsulten fick sedan ett nytt kontrakt som lpte frn maj till september 1997, ven det genom privat verenskommelse (3). ven om det utfrda arbetet, som det beskrivs i konsultens slutrapport, verensstmde med kontraktsspecifikationerna, uppgav PLC:s representanter fr revisorerna p platsen att de inte var njda, vilket frmst berodde p att PLC inte hade konsulterats i rendet.
A second invitation to tender was suspended in February 1998, after a request for clarifications from the services of the CommissionŐs Financial Controller, and subsequently it was never awarded, or relaunched. 
En andra anbudsinfordran skts upp i februari 1998, efter att man vid kommissionens finanskontrollavdelningar hade begrt ett klargrande.
The invitation to tender for equipment has never been launched. 
Ngon anbudsinfordran fr utrustning har aldrig gjorts.