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WRITTEN QUESTION E-2816/03 by Joan Vallvé (ELDR) to the Commission. Community initiatives.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2816/03 by Joan Vallvé (ELDR) to the Commission. Community initiatives.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2816/03 by Joan Vallvé (ELDR) to the Commission. Community initiatives.
OJ C 65E, 13.3.2004, pp. 222–223
(ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)
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WRITTEN QUESTION E-2816/03
by Joan Vallvé (ELDR) to the Commission
(19 September 2003)
Subject: Community initiatives
The Berlin European Council of March 1999 approved the economic resources for the Structural Funds and the Community Initiatives for 2000-2006.
The Community Initiatives support European-scale policies on completing the Union. They are activities which the Commission proposes to the Member States, with a view to resolving specific existing programmes throughout Union territory. They supplement the work of the Community Support Frameworks and the Single Programming Documents, which the Commission and the Member States negotiated on the basis of regional or national development plans.
For 2000-2006, over which period the Commission wished to step up the European dimension of the Community Initiatives, and likewise the way in which it complements priority objectives.
Four Community Initiatives are to be carried out, each one funded by one of the Structural Funds:
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Interreg III: Cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation (ERDF); |
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Urban II: Regenerating urban areas in crisis (ERDF); |
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Leader+: Rural development (EAGGF Guidance); |
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Equal: Fighting discrimination and inequality relating to the labour market (ESF). |
There is a danger that some of these Community Initiatives will be claimed by the Member States, on the understanding that they are domestic policies.
What does the Commission think of the renationalisation of the Community Initiatives, and specifically, Interreg III — Chapter A, on cross-border cooperation?
Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission
(23 October 2003)
The Commission will make proposals for cohesion policy for the period after 2006 in the Third Cohesion Report which is scheduled for publication before the end of this year. While it is too early to speculate on the nature of these proposals, they will take account of the contributions to the debate on future cohesion policy that the Commission launched in January 2001 with the publication of the Second Cohesion Report. The Parliament has been fully associated with this debate. The Commission's proposals will also include those regarding the future of the Community Initiatives, taking into account their added value in relation to the interventions supported under the mainstream regional development programmes.