EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32008D0458 - EN - 2008/458/EC: Commission Decision of 5 March 2008 laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 575/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Return Fund for the period 2008 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 doc ...[+++]ument number C(2008) 796) - COMMISSION DECISION // laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 575/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Return Fund for the period 2008 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)796) // (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) // (2008/458/EC) // MODEL DESCRIPTION OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS // MODEL MULTI-ANNUAL 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 — EUROPEAN RETURN FUND

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 effe ...[+++]ctiveness, 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.

It also notes that various issues of crucial importance to these regions (such as climate change, protecting biodiversity, managing coastal areas, the marine environment and civil protection) are priorities in the sixth Community programme for the environment.

The objectives of the programme are: - to reduce air pollution by the creation of a network to control emissions from sources of pollution, to instal anti-pollution equipment and to carry out a study on the implementation of the optimum pollution policy, - to protect public health by measures to monitor nuisance (noise, toxic substances, etc.), - to enhance and protect natural biotopes, - to take measures to monitor the quality of waste water, - to protect subsurface soils by, for example, programmes to manage solid waste and reduce t ...[+++]he use of the pesticides in agriculture.

Sub-programme 7: Management and Monitoring (total cost 4,8 MECU). These measures provide the budget for the management, monitorig and implementation of the Programme as a whole. Technical assistance and studies are also included.

Sub-programmes Total cost EC contribution Sub-programme 1 3.318 MECU 1.659 MECU Economic development and diversification Sub-programme 2 26.362 MECU 13.181 MECU Tourism Sub-programme 3 8.788 MECU 3.956 MECU Development of Human Resources Sub-programme 4 22.9165 MECU 8.2505 MECU Minimizing the problems of peripherality Sub-programme 5 27.4715 MECU 9.8905 MECU Development of multi- objective infrastructures Total 88.856 MECU 36.937 MECU The Community contribution accounts for 41.57% of total cost.