Annexes to COM(1998)600-1 - Implementation of measures to intensify the EC-Turkey customs union

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dossier COM(1998)600-1 - Implementation of measures to intensify the EC-Turkey customs union.
document COM(1998)600 EN
date April 10, 2000
agreements or contracts concluded under this Regulation shall provide for the Commission and the Court of Auditors to conduct on-the-spot checks according to the usual procedures laid down by the Commission under the rules in force, and in particular those of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Union.

6. Where operations are the subject of financing agreements between the Community and Turkey, such agreements shall stipulate that the payment of taxes, duties or any other charges is not to be covered by the Community.

7. Participation in invitations to tender and the award of contracts shall be open on equal terms to natural and legal persons of the Member States and Turkey.

8. Supplies shall originate in the Member States or Turkey.


Article 7

The Commission shall be assisted by the committee set up by Regulation (EC) No 1488/96 of 23 July 1996 (1), known as the MED Committee, composed of the representatives of the Member States and chaired by the representative of the Commission, in accordance with the following procedure.

The representative of the Commission shall submit to the Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft, within a time limit which the Chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148(2) of the Treaty in the case of decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the Committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The Chairman shall not vote.

The Commission shall adopt the measures envisaged if they are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee.

If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion of the Committee or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall without delay submit to the Council a proposal relating to the measures to be taken. The Council shall act by qualified majority.

If, on the expiry of a period of three months from the date of referral to the Council, the Council has not acted, the proposed measures shall be adopted by the Commission.

Within one month of taking a decision, the Commission shall inform the Member States of the measures and projects approved, describing their nature, the sums attached to them and the partners involved.


Article 8

An exchange of views shall take place, once a year, on the basis of a presentation by the Commission's representative of the general guidelines for the operations to be carried out in the year ahead, in a meeting of the committee referred to in Article 7.


Article 9

After each budget year, the Commission shall report to the European Parliament and the Council, summarising the operations financed in the course of that year and assessing the implementation of this Regulation in that period.

The summary shall in particular contain information about those with whom implementation contracts have been concluded.

The report shall also include a summary of the conclusions of any evaluations, including those relating to specific operations.


Article 10

The Commission shall regularly assess operations financed by the Community in order to establish whether the objectives of the operations have been achieved and to provide guidelines for improving the effectiveness of future operations. The Commission shall submit to the Committee referred to in Article 7 a summary of the assessments made, which the latter may, if necessary, examine. Assessment reports shall be made available to any Member States requesting them.


Article 11

Three years after this Regulation enters into force, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council an overall assessment of operations financed by the Community under this Regulation, together with suggestions regarding the future of this Regulation and, where necessary, proposals for amending it.


Article 12

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.


This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

(1) OJ L 189, 30.7.1996, p. 1.