European and External Relations Committee, 30 Mar 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Official Report 117KB pdf

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Sift

Agenda item 4 is the sift paper. I invite comments from members on the paper.

I want to comment not on the documents of special importance, but on the main sift. Pages 2 and 3 repeat information, but what I want to say relates to what I said earlier about the Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and Tempus programmes. A document on "Making citizenship work: fostering European culture and diversity through programmes for Youth, Culture, Audiovisual and Civic Participation" is mentioned, as well as a number of programmes in COM(2004) 152, COM(2004) 153 and COM(2004) 157. The last two documents relate to the Socrates and Tempus programmes. I would like to know more about those.

Okay. We will get that information as part of the other information that we are seeking.

If there are no further comments on the sift paper, do members agree to it?

Members indicated agreement.

Agenda item 5 is our first discussion of the draft report on our inquiry into regional development funding. We will take the item in private, as previously agreed, so I bring the public part of the meeting to a close.

Meeting continued in private until 16:00.