Apart from interventions on external borders supported by external policy instruments of the Union covering border regions inside and outside the Union, it should be possible for cooperation programmes supported by the ERDF to cover regions both inside and, in certain cases, outside the Union, where the regions outside the Union are not covered by external policy instruments either because they are not defined as a beneficiary country or because such external cooperation programmes cannot be set up.

In its contribution to the Union’s external cooperation programmes, the EEAS should seek to ensure that the programmes fulfil the objectives for external action as set out in Article 21 TUE, in particular in paragraph (2)(d) thereof, and that they respect the objectives of the Union’s development policy in line with Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’).

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32008D0456 - EN - 2008/456/EC: Commission Decision of 5 March 2008 laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 574/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the External Borders Fund for the period 2007 to 2013 as part of the General programme Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows as regards Member States' management and control systems, the rules for administrative and financial management and the eligibility of expenditure on projects co-financed by the Fund (notified under document number C(2008) 789) - COMMISSION DECISION // laying down ...[+++] rules for the implementation of Decision No 574/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the External Borders Fund for the period 2007 to 2013 as part of the General programme ‘Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows’ as regards Member States' management and control systems, the rules for administrative and financial management and the eligibility of expenditure on projects co-financed by the Fund // (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) // (2008/456/EC) // MODEL DESCRIPTION OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS // MODEL MULTIANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL PROGRESS REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL FINAL REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL AUDIT STRATEGY // MODEL REPORT BY THE AUDIT AUTHORITY // MODEL DECLARATION OF EXPENDITURE FOR THE SECOND PRE-FINANCING // MODEL DECLARATION OF EXPENDITURE FOR PAYMENT OF THE BALANCE // INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE EMBLEM AND DEFINITION OF THE STANDARD COLOURS // RULES ON THE ELIGIBILITY OF EXPENDITURE — EXTERNAL BORDERS FUND

before 30 September each year, and after receiving the opinion of the Commission, adopt, by a three-quarters majority of its members with a right to vote, the Agency’s programme of work for the coming year and forward it to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission; this programme of work shall be adopted according to the annual Community budgetary procedure and the Community legislative programme in relevant areas of the management of external borders;

The evaluation report suggests that Tempus has done more than any other external programme in the eligible countries to help university departments and faculties to modernise courses and to introduce new ones.

The evaluation report suggests that Tempus has done more than any other external programme in the eligible countries to help university departments and faculties to modernise courses and to introduce new ones.