– this implies a transitional phase for the shift from the existing financial programming based on seven-year interinstitutional agreements to legally binding planning on a five-year basis; to this end, the institutions should reach agreement on the transformation of the financial framework contained in the existing interinstitutional agreement into a regulation containing the financial framework on the basis of prolonging the existing financial framework (2007-2013) up to the end of 2015, so that the next multiannual financial frame ...[+++]work can come into force in early 2016 and cover the period up to the end of 2020.

3. The link between strategic programming and financial programming (multiannual financial framework)

However, the adoption of a new legal framework for European research infrastructures in 2009 should provide a further boost and financial planning security integrating other financial instruments (EIB, Structural Funds).

to give recipients a greater degree of certainty in financial planning in the context of the binding budgetary principles laid down in the Financial Regulation, the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets, which draw up the annual budget proposals, should agree at the beginning of a legislature on a funding plan over several years, both with regard to the basic amount per party (15% of the total budget) and as to the additional amount per MEP from the party (85% of the total budget), and thus with sufficient flexibility to allow for any new parties;

to give recipients a greater degree of certainty in financial planning in the context of the binding budgetary principles laid down in the Financial Regulation, the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets, which draw up the annual budget proposals, should agree at the beginning of a legislature on a funding plan over several years, both with regard to the basic amount per party (15% of the total budget) and as to the additional amount per MEP from the party (85% of the total budget), and thus with sufficient flexibility to allow for any new parties;

(c) to give recipients a greater degree of certainty in financial planning in the context of the binding budgetary principles laid down in the Financial Regulation, the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets, which draw up the annual budget proposals, should agree at the beginning of a legislature on a funding plan over several years, both with regard to the basic amount per party (15% of the total budget) and as to the additional amount per Member of European Parliament accounted for by the parties (85% of the total budget), and thus with sufficient flexibility to allow for any new parties;