Translation of "Section de la planification centrale et des projets " (French → English) :

It was an application for a small amount, $50,000, in the context of a $24-million project.

I caution you against the central planning mindset in which we think we can draft a bill that will work in some future context.

In fact, we are building a planning section, in the event that this legislation is passed, that incorporates all of the component parts of the organization.

The report presents a number of proposals for improvements of the programme and project administration. The report covers the following themes: planning and kick off, distribution and spending of funds regionally and centrally, innovation and coherence between Objective 3, NAP and EES.

In part IV of the bill powers are granted under subclause 13(1) to the Minister of Industry, which could be construed to mean that the minister and the department can engage in central planning of the economy, far beyond the more sensible approach of letting industry choose the equilibrium and letting experts run their own affairs.

Technical Assistance is also available for the costs of administering the programme outside central government, for innovatory actions, and for publicity (1% of total resources) Among the main points are: - the ESF intervention rate will be 45% for non central government actions and central government actions on priority 4, and 35% for all other central government actions; - all central government cofinanced actions will be for those unemployed for twelve months or more in three specified programmes, ensuring greater concentration of ESF resources in central government programmes; - regional subgroups will advise the Monitoring Committee on the prop ...[+++]osals for projects in their region, to ensure improved relevance and better coordination at the local level; - a separate subgroup for each priority will advise the Monitoring Committee on all matters related to the priority; - the Monitoring Committee and the regional and priority subgroups will be able to extend their membership through the addition of specialists; - explicit mention is made of the need to make available different combinations of measures - the 'pathways' - to provide a planned route to the labour market; - multi-annual approvals will provide improved forward planning and a greater degree of confidence for sponsors and beneficiaries; there is provision for ESF support for the training of trainers in the priority for the excluded.