EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32014R0231 - EN - Regulation (EU) No 231/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 establishing an Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) - REGULATION - OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL // Thematic priorities for assistance // Thematic priorities for assistance for territorial cooperation // Declaration by the European Commission on the strategic dialogue with the European Parliament - ( // Joint Declaration by the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission concerning the funding of ...[+++]horizontal programmes for minorities // Declaration of the European Commission on the use of implementing acts for laying down provisions for the implementation of certain rules in Regulation No. 232/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 establishing a European Neighbourhood Instrument and in Regulation (EU) No 231/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 establishing an Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA II) // Statement by the European Parliament on the suspension of assistance granted under the financial instruments

The regulation, establishing the common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union's instruments for external action, will serve as a horizontal framework in accordance with the objectives of the Agenda for Simplification for the 2014 - 2020 Multiannual Financial Framework and by providing unified and harmonised rules for the EU geographic (the Development Cooperation Instrument, European Neighbourhood Instrument, Ins ...[+++]trument for Pre-accession Assistance and the Partnership Instrument) and thematic (Instrument for Stability, European Instrument for Democratic and Human Rights and Instrument for Nuclear Safety and Cooperation) external action instruments.

6. Endorses the Commission's view that the funding made available to support the integration of gender equality issues into development cooperation is insignificant when compared with the resources earmarked for other horizontal measures; regrets that only 5% of the DCI funds for the thematic programme 'Investing in People' (2007-2013) are allocated to gender equality and that regional and country strategy papers do not give an overview of budget allocation to gender equality since gender is only mentioned as a cross-cutting issue an ...[+++]d thus no financial details are provided;

6. Endorses the Commission’s view that the funding made available to support the integration of gender equality issues into development cooperation is insignificant when compared with the resources earmarked for other horizontal measures; regrets that only 5% of the DCI funds for the thematic programme 'Investing in People (2007-2013)' are allocated to gender equality and that regional and country strategy papers do not give an overview of budget allocation to gender equality since gender is only mentioned as a cross-cutting issue an ...[+++]d thus no financial details are provided;

D. whereas the MEDA programme is the keystone of the financial cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership underpinning the huge task of coping with a non-homogeneous region and establishing horizontal dialogue,

(a) the difficulties involved in drawing up effective texts on the basis of the horizontal cooperation provided for in Title VI. The second Protocol to the Convention on the protection of the Communities' financial interests (the PFI Convention) devotes only a short article to judicial cooperation, referring to mutual (but not compulsory) cooperation in which the Commission is to provide technical assistance rather than being a ge ...[+++]nuine coordinating authority;