Traduction de «programmazione settoriale » (Italien → Anglais) :

The Commission reconfirms the importance of further steps towards coherent regional integration and sectoral policy reforms, and that the gradually arising needs from the implementation of EPAs will be taken into account in the programming dialogue with the ACP on the end of term review of the Ninth EDF and on the resources of the 10th EDF, covering the time period after the entry into force on 1 January 2008.

* Implementing principles of assistance will be: ensuring ownership by partner country, concentrating assistance in limited number of sectors, developing with EU Member States strategic dialogue on programming and close co-ordination in the field, encourage the participation of non-state actors, where possible shift from projects and programmes to Sector Wide Approach.

The reinforced co-operation is expected to also cover the policy and sector dialogue and the planning and programming of their interventions.

8. The Council furthermore recognizes the need to expand environmental assessment procedures to cover not only projects but also development cooperation programmes, plans and policies (e.g. Strategic Environmental Assessment for programmes to support national planning and policies, Structural Adjustment Programmes, Sector Investment Programmes.) 9.

This should take place in a flexible manner and be tailored to the given situation in the country; 9. having discussed these issues and bearing in mind the complementarity referred to in Article 130u of the Treaty, the Council: - has decided to continue and consolidate the experiment in the six pilot countries, by: = developing dialogue with local authorities, = concertation on individual countries' strategy documents and improved information, particularly through exchange of such documents, = increasing sectoral concertation, in particular in the priority sectors set out in the framework of the "Horizon 2000" declaration, = where appro ...[+++]priate, Community concertation prior to meetings with the other multilateral fund providers, particularly before meetings of the World Bank Consultative Group; and - to improve information exchange in other developing countries, in the light of experience acquired and the procedures already established in the pilot scheme countries; 10. calls on each of its members and the Commission to take the necessary measures to overcome the difficulties encountered and identified in the Commission's report; 11. takes note of the current informal talks between the Directors- General for Development of the Member States and of the Commission, on the subject of coordination; 12. has decided to reinforce coordination in cooperation policies upstream, and in particular to improve information exchange and concertation during the stages of programming of Community aid and aid from the Member States; 13. will explore the possibilities for progress in coordination on the environment; 14. requests the Commission to draw up proposals to ensure active involvement of the beneficiary countries in the coordination process; 15. agrees to analyze the situation again at its meeting in the first half of 1997, and requests the Commission to carry out a further survey with that in mind".

While the transfer of Western know-how in support of the reform process should remain at the core of Tacis, proposed innovations include limited support for investment, cross-border infrastructures, emphasis on the regions and multi- annual financial and sectoral programming.