Some alternatives have already been discussed, for example the establishment of transferable fishing rights or management of catches by a step-by-step procedure, making use of fishing effort management.

In this way the work led by the Commission within the services and with Member States has resulted in progress towards programming that is better organised: the reservation of a financial envelope in the 10th EDF and the 2007/2013 ERDF allocated to this cooperation, common identification of priorities, indicative allocation of resources to this cooperation and joint preselection of projects, while respecting the mechanisms of programming, of management and of monitoring that are appropriate to each Fund.

Instead, it must permeate all parts of the programmes and of PROGRESS.

multi-donor technical assistance and funding to improve public expenditure management; close oversight through audits, public expenditure reviews and public expenditure surveys; A contractual commitment to share management and financial responsibility for the outcomes of the environmental and social mitigation and compensation programmes; long-term funding and technical assistance for the watershed management; a comprehensive programme of monitoring and evaluation of project performance; regular field-based supervision, monitoring and support from WB, ADB, EIB and AFD; international expert ...[+++]panels to monitor dam safety, project effectiveness, the achievement of income targets and other key objectives of the social and environmental programmes; annual consultative meeting, to provide public scrutiny, transparency and accountability.

Finally, generally speaking, the Sixth Framework Programme should make progress in the direction proposed in various recommendations, because for the first time, the subject of space is one of the priorities of this framework programme, but also because the European Space Agency will, for the first time, be able to participate in the programme as a partner with full rights.

Reform of the JRC The Commission intends to make far-reaching changes in a number of areas in order to adapt the JRC to the tasks it is to perform within the Community's research and technological development strategy: - structure: on the basis of the principle of drawing a clear distinction between programme management and resource management, the JRC will be reorganized into a number of scientific institutes enjoying a large measure of scientific, administrative and financial independence; - management: the existing advisory structures will be streamlined, while the role and powers of the Board of Governors will b ...[+++]e strengthened; - staff: a number of measures will be taken to ensure that the JRC permanently maintains a very high level of expertise coupled with considerable versatility: increased flexibility in the allocation of staff resources to different activities, an increase in the number of fellows and scientists visiting the JRC, an increase in the number of secondments from national centres to the JRC and vice versa, the creation of fixed- duration posts for post-doctoral fellows, etc.