Preventive arm As explained in the Legal Framework boxes in Sections 2.1.1, 3.1 and 4.1, the Council examines whether Member States in the preventive arm of the Pact take sufficient measures to achieve its medium-term budgetary objective over the cycle.

In order to ensure that the Programme is sufficiently flexible to respond to changing needs and corresponding policy priorities throughout its duration, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the reallocation of funds between the axes and to the individual thematic sections within the axes of the Programme.

Re-allocation of funds between the axes and to the individual thematic sections within the axes

The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 34, re-allocating funds between axes and to individual thematic sections within each axis that would exceed the indicative amount set in each case by more than 5 % and up to 10 %, where developments in the socio-economic context or the findings in the mid-term evaluation referred to in Article 13(1) so require.

To achieve this, the programme breaks down into two major components: - 4 - Section A: Training, seminars, workshops and technical cooperation with the aim of achieving - The harmonisation of classifications and nomenclatures in order to enable data integration and comparison, and thus assist GUS in the adoption of international - in particular EC-standards. - The redesign and updating of the system of registers and data collection relating to small and medium size enterprises to ensure compatibility with the demands of private sector ...[+++] liberalisation. - The implementation of the EC national account system, which would allow international comparisons and exchange of informations. - The reform of price surveys. - The implementation of a system of foreign trade statistics compatible with international standards. - The design of a comprehensive, integrated and internationally compatible system of information on the environment. - The provision of technical assistance for the procurement as well as monitoring and evaluation of informatics.

- 3 - The programme breaks down into the following components - Technical assistance for the Ministry of Agriculture for the preparation of an Agricultural Policy - Assistance to the Institute for Agricultural Economics; improvement of the data on Bulgarian (private) agriculture and the reinforcement of the capacity to undertake studies. - Assistance for the setting up on an organisation for private farmers - Assistance for training in agricultural economics and management in agricultural higher education - Setting up of a credit line through i.a. the Agricultural Credit Bank to finance imports of inputs of equipment for private farmers ...[+++] and investors in agro-industry as well as the provision of technical assistance to the Bank - Setting up of a project implementation unit (PIU) under the responsibility of the Ministry of External Economic Relations in order to implement or supervise the implementation of the various project components and to improve the coordination of the different external assistance programmes.