Translation of "atlantic region freight assistance program " (English → French) :

32. Notes that over recent years substantial progress has been made on speeding up project and programme implementation in the framework of MEDA, notably due to a radical overhaul of the Commission's assistance programming and thanks to the major role given to the actors on the ground; regrets, however, that the Council has reduced the amounts earmarked for the MEDA Programme in the draft budget for 2006, and in particular the line intended for institutional reform, democratic development and human ...[+++]rights, economic and social reform and sub-regional cooperation; considers that such a reduction would not be consistent with the impetus that the Barcelona Process requires;

31. Notes that over recent years substantial progress has been made on speeding up project and programme implementation in the framework of MEDA, notably due to a radical overhaul of the Commission’s assistance programming and thanks to the major role given to the actors on the ground; regrets, however, that the Council has reduced the amounts earmarked for the MEDA Programme in the draft budget for 2006, and in particular the line intended for institutional reform, democratic development and human ...[+++]rights, economic and social reform and sub-regional cooperation; considers that such a reduction would not be consistent with the impetus that the Barcelona Process requires;

Assistance for candidate countries should additionally focus on the adoption and implementation of the full acquis communautaire, and compliance with the accession criteria; it should also help prepare candidate countries for the programming, management and implementation of the European Regional Development Fund, Cohesion Fund, European Social Fund and Rural Development that will be made available to them upon accession.

1. Notes that the financial year 2005 will be the first in which appropriations will have to be available to meet the needs of a European Union of 25 Member States; in this connection, recognises the importance of the amended financial perspective as regards determining the total amounts of available appropriations, but, in the light of this provision, stresses that the necessary levels of financial support for the Structural Funds, transport policy and tourism policy should be available and that these sums should be allocated in line with recognised needs and fully and effectively used in accordance with the legislation in force and th ...[+++]e wishes of the budgetary authority; in its special report No 7/2003 on the implementation assistance programming for the period 2000-2006 within the framework of the Structural Funds, the Court of Auditors points out that, because statistics had not been updated, some regions would have received Objective 1 assistance when their GDP was in excess of 75% of the Community average; therefore calls on the Commission to provide a formal explanation of this matter;

In this context, and following finalisation of the scrutiny of measures planned under single programming documents involving assistance from the Funds in the Objective 2 regions in 2000-2006, the Commission focused its attention during 2002 on the appraisal of various major projects eligible under Articles 25 and 26 of the General Regulation, which should be made simpler by the adoption of the new multisectoral ...[+++] framework on regional aid for large investment projects [10].

Under its energy policy, the European Community has mostly assisted the establishment of regional energy programming in the regions and/or the establishment of regional energy agencies (in the Azores and Madeira, the Canary Islands, Guadeloupe and French Guiana) through the SAVE programme.