Programmes support actions listed in Article 5(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013, consisting of technical and administrative assistance expenses incurred by the Commission for the management of the Connecting Europe Facility and capped at 1 % of the financial envelope, will not be covered by the work programmes.

Programme support actions include, in particular, studies, meetings, infrastructure mapping, information, dissemination, communication and awareness raising actions, expenditure linked to IT tools and networks focusing on exchanges of information about the CEF, together with all other technical and administrative assistance expenditure incurred by the Commission that may be required for the management of the CEF or implementation of the individual sector-specific guidelines.

Programme support actions include, in particular, studies, meetings, infrastructure mapping, information, dissemination, communication and awareness raising actions, expenditure linked to IT tools and networks focusing on exchanges of information about the CEF, together with all other technical and administrative assistance expenditure incurred by the Commission that may be required for the management of the CEF or implementation of the individual sector-specific guidelines.

Deplores the cuts made by the Council on the administrative and research support lines, including executive agencies, by overall 6,6 % in CA and PA (-EUR 71,8 million) compared to DB, with the highest cuts affecting Heading 1b (-23,7 %) and Heading 4 (-13,2 %); underlines that this would result in a 5,5 % decrease as compared to similar 2012 appropriations, despite the savings already proposed in the DB, and would therefore be likely to affect the swiftness and quality of budgetary implementation of the multi-annual programmes to which they are related; stresses, moreover, that decreasing the administrative lines of a given programme w ...[+++]ithout increasing its operational expenditure would result in a modification of the whole co-decided envelope for that programme; therefore decides to restore the DB for those lines;

It indicates the allocation of the envelope for pre-accession assistance by country and by component for these years, and also gives an indication of the multi-beneficiary programme envelope and support expenditure.

[6] These amounts indicate the global allocations for each pre-accession instrument and so include national programmes, CBC programmes, the KIDS programme for Nuclear Decommissioning and support expenditure as well as contributions to multi-country programmes, including TAIEX.