Activites

• 2001/09/15 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2001/691
  • OJ L 246 15.09.2001, p. 0027
• #2319
• 2000/12/14 Council Meeting
• 2000/12/14 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0567/2000 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report drafted by Mr Joan COLOM I NAVAL (PES, E) which aims to approve the decision to use the 'flexibility reserve' to provide a total support of EUR 200 million for aid to Serbia in 2001. The resolution points out that priorities supported under this system in 1999 and the year 2000 will continue to exist in the future. �

• 2000/12/14 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2000/12/12 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2000/12/04 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0391/2000
• 2000/12/04 Non-legislative basic document published
  • SEC(2000)2167 summary

    PURPOSE : mobilisation of the flexibility instrument with a view to extending to Serbia the CARDS programme of assistance for reconstruction. CONTENT : following the conclusions of the budgetary conciliation meeting on 23 November 2000 and in light of the recent developments in Serbia, it has been decided that Serbia should qualify for the programme of assistance for reconstruction, development and stabilisation mounted for the entire Western Balkans. Serbia has, up until now, been excluded from this programme. The aid initially earmarked for Serbia in the preliminary draft budget presented by the Commission for 2001 totalling EUR 40 million was designed to assist the democratic forces in the country and the towns administered by the opposition. This aid must be extended to cover the financing of reconstruction work. This amount must be raised to EUR 240 million for that year. After examining the allocations for all the actions covered by heading 4 of the financial perspective, the two arms of the budgetary authority agreed that this additional expenditure cannot be financed in 2001 within the limits of the ceiling set for this heading. Therefore, the flexibility instrument shall be used to provide EUR 200 million for the 2001 budget. This amount shall be used to finance reconstruction work in Serbia within Chapter B7-54 of the 2001 budget.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],
• 2000/05/19 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2000/05/03 Non-legislative basic document published
  • COM(2000)0262 summary

    PURPOSE : to revise the financial perspective (2001-2006) for the financing of the programme of assistance for the Western Balkans and the reclassification of aid to Cyprus and Malta. CONTENT : this communication contains the Commission's proposal for the revision of the financial perspective, in conjuction with the programme of assistance for the reconstruction, development and stabilisation of the Western Balkans and a new programme for heading 4 set out in separate documents. Firstly, it is worth noting that the new factors have to be taken into account since the conclusion of the interinstitutional agreement (IIA) of 6 May 1999. For instance, the financial perspective agreed by the institutions after the Berlin European Council in March 1999 does not allow for the possible impact on the Community budget of the events occurring at the time in the Balkans. Furthermore, the budgetary authority decided on 16 December 1999 to draw EUR 200 million from the flexibility instrument to provide additional funding required in 2000 for aid for the reconstruction of Kosovo. At that time, the Commission confirmed that it would propose at a later date a programme of assistance for the period 2000-06 for the Western Balkans, including Kosovo, the amount of which would require it to present a proposal for the revision of the financial perspective, accompanied by a programming of expenditure for heading 4. As regards the development of the enlargement process, the financial perspective agreed in the IIA contains a heading 7 covering pre-accession aid for the 10 applicant countries from Central and Eastern Europe. In line with the conclusions of the December 1999 Helsinki European Council for the development of the enlargement process, the Council recently adopted, on a proposal by the Commission a new regulation concerning aid for Cyprus and Malta, which currently comes under cooperation with non-member Mediterranean countries covered by heading 4 of the financial perspective, to make it pre-accession aid instead. For the sake of consistency in the presentation of the financial framework, it would therefore be logical for the allocations earmarked for this instrument of pre-accession aid to the two applicant countries concerned to be included under the corresponding heading of the financial perspective. Parliament asked for this reclassification during the debate on the 2000 budget. In addition, the purpose of this reclassification, under heading 7 of the financial perspective, is to identify it as the status it will have when the new legal base is renewed. �

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2000)0262
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A5-0391/2000
• Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2000)2167
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0567/2000
• : Decision 2001/691
• : OJ L 246 15.09.2001, p. 0027

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)