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Document 32007D0114
2007/114/EC: Commission Decision of 8 February 2007 amending Commission Decision 2005/56/EC setting up the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency for the management of Community action in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture in application of Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 (Text with EEA relevance )
2007/114/EC: Commission Decision of 8 February 2007 amending Commission Decision 2005/56/EC setting up the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency for the management of Community action in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture in application of Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 (Text with EEA relevance )
2007/114/EC: Commission Decision of 8 February 2007 amending Commission Decision 2005/56/EC setting up the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency for the management of Community action in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture in application of Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 (Text with EEA relevance )
OJ L 49, 17.2.2007, p. 21–24
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
OJ L 219M, 24.8.2007, p. 254–257
(MT)
No longer in force, Date of end of validity: 20/04/2009; Implicitly repealed by 32009D0336
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17.2.2007 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 49/21 |
COMMISSION DECISION
of 8 February 2007
amending Commission Decision 2005/56/EC setting up the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency for the management of Community action in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture in application of Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2007/114/EC)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 of 19 December 2002 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes (1), and in particular Article 3(1) thereof,
Whereas:
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Under Article 4 of Commission Decision 2005/56/EC (2), the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency (hereinafter referred to as the Agency) is responsible for certain tasks relating to the management of Community programmes in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture. |
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On 31 December 2006 most of the programmes entrusted to the Agency have expired, to be replaced by new programmes covering the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013. |
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The external evaluation carried out in November 2006 by the Commission, in accordance with Article 3(2) of Decision 2005/56/EC, showed that use of the Agency is the best way to manage certain centralised strands of the Community programmes in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture. This evaluation recommended that the Agency’s tasks be extended to include the management of the centralised strands of the new programmes in the fields of education, audio-visual and culture. |
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In the light of this evaluation, the Agency will be entrusted with not only the management of these new programmes but also the management of projects which, although coming under the Agency's current areas of competence, could be financed by other provisions or resources, i.e. those which could be financed by the Community’s aid to the countries of the western Balkans, the resources of the European Development Fund, certain European neighbourhood and partnership policy instruments, the financing instrument for development cooperation and certain agreements concluded by the Community with third countries in the fields of education, vocational training and youth. |
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Moreover, the Commission wishes to entrust to the Agency the implementation, at Community level, of the information network on education in Europe (Eurydice) referred to in action 6.1 of the second phase of the Community action programme in the field of education ‘Socrates’ and by the horizontal programme of the action programme in the field of lifelong learning. |
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Lastly, to ensure the stable and effective management of the new programmes entrusted to the Agency, the Agency’s lifespan should be amended and brought into line with the length of these new programmes. The lifespan of the Agency must also include a phasing-out period of two years relative to the implementation period of these new programmes (2014-2015), so as to allow the Agency to complete the projects selected over the last year of this implementation period. |
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Decision 2005/56/EC must consequently be amended. |
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The provisions set out by this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Executive Agencies, |
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
Decision 2005/56/CE is amended as follows:
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Article 3(1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. The Agency is hereby established for the period beginning on 1 January 2005 and ending on 31 December 2015.’ |
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Article 4(1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. The Agency is hereby entrusted with the management of certain strands of the following Community programmes:
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the following point (d) shall be added to Article 4(2):
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Article 6 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 6 Subsidy Without prejudice to any other revenue, the Agency shall receive, for its operation, a subsidy entered in the General Budget of the European Communities and resources from the European Development Fund. This subsidy and these resources shall be taken from the funds allocated to the programmes referred to in Article 4(1) and, if necessary, from the funds allocated to other Community programmes the implementation of which has been entrusted to the Agency pursuant to Article 4(3)’. |
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.
Done at Brussels, 8 February 2007.
For the Commission
Ján FIGEĽ
Member of the Commission