Traduction de «Comité chargé du Fonds pour l'Afrique » (Français → Anglais) :

The package of 11 measures is worth €170 million and was decided by the third Operational Committee meeting of the Horn of Africa region of the EU Trust Fund for Africa.

J. whereas a committee to review civil institutions and NGOs aimed at tightening legal control on foreign funding of civil society organizations was recently announced and, as a consequence, a request was issued to the Central Bank to monitor all bank transitions of NGOs; whereas at the same time the state security prosecutor accused organisations that have illegally received funding from foreign sources of 'grand treason' and 'conspiracy against Egypt' through foreign agendas aimed at harming Egyptian national security; whereas, furthermore, the threats levelled at NGOs, especially those involved in the defence of human rights, in an ...[+++]intensive defamatory campaign launched by the state-owned press, served to de-legitimise and stigmatise them in the eyes of the public as actors acting against the interest of Egypt,

23. Proposes that appropriations recently released in the EU Budget for a pilot project minimising administrative burdens be used to set up an independent panel of experts to monitor the quality of opinions delivered by the IAB by means of spot checks, notably as regards the charting of unnecessary administrative burdens, and to supervise the implementation of the European action programme to reduce administrative burdens;

54. Agrees that the Africa Peace Facility, created in 2003 by the AU Heads of State at the Maputo Summit, needs to be strengthened and encourages other civilian mechanisms to contribute to conflict prevention, resolution and management in Africa, with increased, flexible and sustainable EU funding; emphasises that development policy is one of several tools for addressing the root causes of insecurity but that it should not be subordinated to security policy; notes, however, that all expenses from the Community's development cooperation budget and the European Development Fund must comply with the criteria for eligibility as ODA defined by the OECD ...[+++]/DAC;

56. Agrees that the Africa Peace Facility needs to be strengthened and encourages other civilian mechanisms to contribute to conflict prevention, resolution and management in Africa, with increased, flexible and sustainable EU funding; emphasises that development policy is one of several tools for addressing the root causes of insecurity but that it should not be subordinated to security policy; notes, however, that all expenses from the Community's development cooperation budget and the European Development Fund must comply with the OECD/DAC criteria for eligibility as ODA;

(8 ) In practice the European Development Fund Committee has been acting in the context of Regulation (EC) No 1726/2000 as the "South Africa Committee".