financial protocol

My second question is about the fourth financial protocol.

In fact, the financial protocols cannot go ahead without a vote in Parliament.

Consequently, it is no mere quibbling that makes Greece decline to sign the financial protocol.

Four supplementary financial protocols have already been signed within the framework of this Cooperation Agreement.

Until 1999, this technical assistance and financial aid was provided under the fourth financial protocols (B7-4011).

A new financing agreement is currently under consideration, using the entire allocation under the current Financial Protocol.

Do you see any chance, perhaps by using the Notenboom procedure or some other method, of implementing this extended financial protocol now?

Parliament would be well advised to deliver a clear opinion on the failure to implement the financial protocol of the Customs Union.

To that end the Commission took a more strategic approach during the programming of the Lomé IV second financial protocol.

Financial protocols (1977-1996)

This proposal is similar to the proposal submitted for other candidate countries and, once it is implemented, will replace the financial protocols which have now expired.

Furthermore, with regard to the fisheries sector, we must welcome the financial protocol annexed to the agreement, which amounts to ECU 500 million over four years.

At that date, the 1990-1995 financial protocol worth 14 billion dollars is due to be renegotiated, while the current phase of the Lome Convention expires in 2000.

A financial protocol was also concluded, estimated at between F367,000,000 and F458,000,000, to build two conventional power stations in Pakistan.

Parliament earlier rejected ratification of the financial protocol between the EU and Morocco precisely because of the Moroccan government's infringements of international law.

It was with this aim in mind that the current financial protocol was signed in June 1995 to support the efforts for a general settlement of the Cyprus question.

My Group is determined to continue to block the appropriations for Turkey deriving from the Financial Protocol of the Customs Union Agreement in the 1997 budget.

From this point of view, the aspect of the financial protocol is significant: 150 million ECU from the BEI, guaranteed by the community budget.

Aid is allocated to ACP countries in five yearly cycles under the Financial Protocol of the Cotonou Agreement.

They must therefore be called into question, and Europe must freeze all the appropriations under the financial protocol and all those within the framework of the MEDA programme.

Nor can the Commission accept Amendment No 2, since when the interinstitutional agreement was negotiated, only the Mediterranean financial protocols were included in the classification as non-compulsory expenditure.

In this regard, we deplore the continued failure of the Council to deliver the financial protocol for Turkey, and ask today how the presidency proposes to unblock this unhappy situation.

But with the help of the Commission and before the recent elections in Malta, it had been agreed that the financial protocol for Malta would be extended by a further year.

The €17m Euros contract, financed entirely from the 5th Italo-Maltese Financial Protocol, covered the construction of the vessel together with an associated training and logistic support package.

It is not easy to ward off criticism in connection with the financial protocol to the effect that we have not kept our promises to support the modernisation and the restructuring of Turkey financially.