Translation of "Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme " (English → French) :

provide in the negotiating guidelines for gradual reciprocal trade liberalisation under conditions of justice and mutual benefit based on complementarity and solidarity, so as to ensure that the future agreement reduces existing imbalances between the EU and the CAN, and between the CAN countries; provide, therefore, for special, variable and flexible treatment, following an agreed timetable, depending on commitments on regional integration and improvements in the competitiveness achieved by the Andean countries, proceeding from the premise that transformation of the production sector and the competitiveness of the Andean economies need ...[+++] to be strongly supported by means of development cooperation measures and through technology transfer, the inclusion of requirements for home-country content in rules of origin, and the establishment of cooperation and technical assistance programmes, all of which should go hand in hand both with a stable legal environment which guarantees the security of investments and the parties" economic and trade relations;

enhancing external action in the fight against organised financial crime, via technical assistance programmes for third countries and by entering into agreements with them (such as the agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal justice concluded with the United States on 25 June 2003).

the negotiating guidelines should provide for progressive access to European markets for Andean products under competitive conditions, avoiding any worsening of existing imbalances as a result of the future Agreement; the guidelines should therefore provide for special, differentiated and flexible treatment, within deadlines to be agreed, in terms of commitments given within the framework of regional integration and improved competitiveness achieved by the Andean countries, on the basis of support measures on the part of the Union and by technology transfer, the inclusion of national requirements in the rules on origin, and the establishment of cooper ...[+++]ation and technical assistance programmes; all of which should go hand in hand with a legal environment which guarantees safety for investment and the parties’ economic and trade relations;

2. As announced in the December 2002 communication (COM(2002)703), the Commission is now proposing that a financial and technical assistance programme be established in the area of migration and asylum for the period 2004-2008, with a financial reference amount of EUR 250 m. It would be a multiannual programme for cooperation with third countries with targeted measures complementing existing measures in the same areas which are fun ...[+++]ded under other cooperation and development instruments.

As for technical assistance for the developing countries, the Commission, together with the Council and, at the appropriate time, Parliament, will have to rethink the way the Union both when it is acting as such and when it is acting through the Member States, is handling the technical assistance programmes for the developing countries in the field of trade.

(1) Pursuant to the European Council in Dublin and in Rome in 1990, the Community introduced a technical assistance programme in favour of economic reform and recovery in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.