Traduction de «Programme de jumelage des SM avec des pays » (Français → Anglais) :

funding for twinning programmes between public institutions, national public bodies or private-law entities with a public-service mission of a Member State and those of a partner country or region.

Under this Regulation, the Community may finance among other things, projects and programmes, contribute to national funds set up by partner countries and regions to attract joint financing from several donors, contribute to funds set up by one or more donors for the purpose of the joint implementation of measures, twinning programmes, interest-rate subsidies, especially for environment-related loans, and debt relief under internationally agreed debt relief programmes.

funding for twinning programmes between public institutions, national public bodies or private-law entities with a public-service mission of a Member State and those of a partner country or region.

The Twin model may help greatly, but with 18 months remaining until the introduction of the euro, as far as we know the three countries mentioned do not yet have partners in this Twin Programme.

Not much is said about this, but we must bear in mind that the progress made, in all the programmes the Commission has implemented, essentially in the twinning programme – which is an extremely important programme, which is really worthy of a debate in this Parliament at some point; and in the ISPA and Sapard programmes there has been spectacular progress both in terms of the Union’s cooperation with these countries, and in terms of the bilateral cooperation of the candidate countries.

23. Considers that the independence of the Court of Auditors or its equivalent in each candidate country must be safeguarded and that, prior to accession, it must be granted and guaranteed the means of enforcing its findings; encourages the continuation and furthering of the contacts between the institutions responsible for financial control in the candidate countries and those in the Member States; encourages the development of the twinning programmes in the framework of technical assistance, in accordance with the needs expressed by the candidate countries, and the continuation of the seminars organised by the Commission; expects th ...[+++]e candidate countries on accession to do their utmost to achieve the same level of protection of the EU's financial interests as that provided by the 15 current Member States; expects the candidate countries to become fully involved as of now in combating fraud affecting the financial interests of the European Union and to ensure that the introduction, as soon as possible, of systems aimed at combating fraud appears in their national programmes for the adoption of the acquis communautaire (PNAA, revised annually); considers that those candidate countries which have not yet done so should sign and ratify as soon as possible the international conventions and protocols on protection under criminal law; expects the candidate countries to carry out, before their accession, the reforms necessary for the smooth operation of the system of collecting own resources and adopt the harmonised calculation of GNP;