These proposals were designed to meet repeated requests from the Member States for greater simplification in the management of the Structural Funds and to reduce the slowness of procedures at both national and Community level, which had been largely the cause of a very slow start-up of programmes.
Ces propositions visaient, d'une part, à répondre à la demande insistante des États membres de simplifier la gestion de ces fonds, et, d'autre part, à réduire la lourdeur des procédures tant nationales que communautaires, largement responsable du démarrage très lent des programmes.
