Translation of "Pre-Project Sub-Account " (English → French) :

32. Calls on the Commission to ensure that financial flows between the European, national and sub-national level are organised in the most efficient and flexible way in the future; expresses its concern about the current low level of pre-financing of projects, and believes that in the future it should be ensured by means of regulations that Member States are more clearly obliged to use pre-financing for payments to public beneficiaries such as urban authorities;

75. Recalls that, for the budgetary year 2008, Parliament adopted pilot projects and preparatory actions for an amount of EUR 107,32 million in commitment appropriations; sub-heading 1a accounted for projects and actions amounting to EUR 38 million, heading 2 for EUR 25,15 million, sub-heading 3a for EUR 3 million, sub-heading 3b for EUR 9,5 million and heading 4 for EUR 31,67 million;

Thus account should be taken of the principles formulated by the ICAO for pre-funding of infrastructure projects (see subparagraph ‘Pre-funding of projects’ in the ‘ICAO’s policies on charges for airports and air navigation services, Doc. 9082/7’ (Amendment 12).

In instances where a provisional accreditation is envisaged, there must be satisfactory compliance with the provisions of the Annex, in particular with the obligations for written procedures, segregation of duties, pre-project approval and pre-payment checks, payment procedures, accounting procedures, computer security, internal audit and where appropriate public procurement provisions.

73. Asks that EU pre-accession aid for environmental purposes to the candidate countries be doubled by 2006; emphasises that EU financial instruments such as Phare, ISPA (Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession) and SAPARD (Support for Agriculture and Rural Development) should be interlinked and should offer stronger support for sustainable development; insists that the EUR 5 million limit for ISPA funding be removed in order to give small, innovative projects a chance and that EU-funded projects and programmes not only give due regard to the welfare and conservation of animals but also create the conditions for good livestock farming t ...[+++]hat takes account of the animals' natural behaviour and for minimising the transport of animals by ensuring that they are slaughtered as near as possible to where they have been reared; considers also that no transitional arrangements should be accepted in the sphere of animal welfare;

The Sapard agency's accounting procedure shall ensure that the accounting system can produce, in euro and national currency, for each regional office, per project, contract or measure/sub-measure, the total cost, the committed expenditure, part payments and balance payments.