J. whereas the situation of the outermost regions needs to be referred to in the cohesion policy objective 'European territorial cooperation', thus linking up with the action plan for a wider neighbourhood; whereas the Commission should, in this context, allocate funds on a case-by-case basis, on similar lines to those followed for the specific programme, and should establish criteria which do not limit the participation of the outermost regions; whereas the Commission must ensure that those regions are eligible in practice for crossborder cooperation,

J. whereas the situation of the outermost regions needs to be referred to in the cohesion policy objective 'European territorial cooperation', thus linking up with the action plan for a wider neighbourhood; whereas the Commission should, in this context, allocate funds on a case-by-case basis, on similar lines to those followed for the specific programme, and should establish criteria which do not limit participation of the outermost regions; whereas the Commission must ensure that those regions are eligible in practice for crossborder cooperation,

In order to help improve the rural credit system, a special project, the Rural Credit Window, was established under the PHARE SME facility in 2003.

55. Recalls the Court's recommendation in its Special Report No. 13/2000 (paragraph 66) that clear rules must be laid down in respect of ownership and inventory of assets acquired using the relevant appropriations in order to ensure the protection and optimum management of all the equipment at the groups' disposal; recalls the finding by the Court of Auditors (Special Report No. 13/2000, paragraph 23) that the appropriations earmarked for the political groups are not a subsidy to an external body but a delegation of the implementation of these appropriations to an internal body, which should therefore comply with the regulatory framewor ...[+++]k applicable to budgetary expenditure; instructs its Secretary-General to submit a report to the Committee on Budgetary Control by 1 July 2002 containing proposals as to how the assets purchased by the political groups using Parliament's funds might be included in the Institution's inventory;

The general idea was to merge a non-profit credit institution pursuing a particular task (Wfa) with a normal commercial bank operating under conditions of competition, with the aim of utilising surplus capital (from the point of view of the solvency rules) within the non-profit institution for the purposes of the entity exposed to competition. At the same time, the assets transferred remained earmarked for their original purpose. Consequently, the approach of an entity within an entity was chosen, with Wfa's assets constituting an independent and closed circuit in which profits generated by Wfa accrue to and are retained by that institut ...[+++]ion only.

(22) Whereas the Commission should work out indicative allocations of the available commitment appropriations under each of the priority objectives, basing itself on appropriate objective criteria; whereas 4 % of appropriations allocated in this way to the Member States should be allocated by the Commission at the mid-term point; whereas, in recognition of the special efforts for the peace process in Northern Ireland, the PEACE programme should continue up to 2004; whereas a special programme of assistance for the period 2000 to 2006 shall be established for the Swedish NUTS-II regions which are not covered by the list referred to in ...[+++]Article 3(2) and which meet the criteria laid down in Article 2 of Protocol 6 to the Act of Accession for Austria, Sweden and Finland;