sector budget support | sectoral budget support | SBS [Abbr.]

budgetary aid [ budget support ]

direct budgetary assistance to exports

budget policy [ annuality of the budget | budgetary discipline | budgetary reform | yearly nature of the budget | Public budget(STW) ]

budget

sectoral crediting mechanism | SCM [Abbr.]

budgetary procedure [ budgetary method | Notenboom procedure ]

budget cutback | budgetary reduction | budgetary restraint | budgetary restriction

Sector Firm Program

39. Demands, as regards sectorial budget support, that the sectorial conditionality matrix be systematically used and reinforced and that adequate benchmarks for Union intervention be defined; would welcome if all general budget support programmes were gradually changed into sectorial budget support programmes to increase the level of control and accountability in order to further protect the Union's financial interests;

39. Demands, as regards sectorial budget support, that the sectorial conditionality matrix be systematically used and reinforced and that adequate benchmarks for Union intervention be defined; would welcome if all general budget support programmes were gradually changed into sectorial budget support programmes to increase the level of control and accountability in order to further protect the Union's financial interests;

33. Notes that a more comprehensive sectoral approach in the areas of judiciary reform and the fight against corruption would entail positive changes, such as better focused national reform efforts, enhanced donor coordination and better interaction between individual projects; calls on the Commission to ensure that sectoral approaches are introduced in accordance with the guidelines on sectoral approaches in pre-accession assistance and that the capacities of the beneficiary countries to draw up and implement meaningful sectoral strategies are enhanced; calls on the Commission to continue to provide guidance on the implementation of t ...[+++]he sectoral approach during the planning and programming stages of IPA II; considers that in most countries neither institutional set-up nor budgeting processes are at a level suitable for sectoral budget support and calls on the Commission to promote the necessary institutional and procedural improvements in the beneficiary countries;

15. Finds unacceptable the way in which the Commission recourses to budget support within ENPI, treating it as the preferred aid modality in the three countries, without a detailed evaluation of the effectiveness of the available tools; stresses in this context that sector budget support is often related to a low visibility and occasional motivation by the governments, and is deeply concerned by the Court of Auditors’ conclusion that the suitability of an area for sector budget support became an important factor for determining assistance in the 2007 annual action programmes; urges the Commission to follow the Court of Auditors’ recomm ...[+++]endation to choose sector budget support more selectively by considering all available options in ENPI and to develop a more balanced deployment of the different tools; stresses the need to increase the access of NGOs and the private sector in the beneficiary countries to the assistance provided;