24.6.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 164/46

(1)

Funds for the Joint Parliamentary Assembly under the ninth European Development Fund (EDF) long-term development envelope and for regional cooperation and integration are exhausted.

(2)

To ensure continued implementation for the purposes referred to in Article 17 of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement (Joint Parliamentary Assembly), it is appropriate to allocate supplementary resources to this effect.

(3)

To ensure contributions to efforts of capacity building in environmental management and implementation of multilateral environmental agreements, the establishment of an ACP-EU Action Plan for forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT), and the strengthening of fisheries management in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, it is appropriate to allocate supplementary resources to this effect.

(4)

To ensure support for producers in the most commodity-dependent ACP countries, to improve competitiveness and reduce vulnerability, and to promote information and communication technologies in the ACP countries, it is appropriate to allocate supplementary resources to this effect.

(5)

To ensure methodological support and capacity building in the field of migration and regional cooperation, focusing on south-south migration, it is appropriate to allocate supplementary resources to this effect.

(6)

To ensure closer cooperation with those UN organisations whose mandate and capacities match ACP-EC development policy priorities, in particular in the areas of governance and post-conflict situations, and to improve the impact of intra-ACP activities, it is appropriate to allocate supplementary resources to this effect,

(a)

natural resources (EUR 60 million), for actions in the field of environment and natural resources (including fisheries, scientific and technical assessment, control and surveillance);

(b)

private sector support and information and communication technologies (EUR 65 million), for actions to support producers in the most commodity-dependent ACP countries and to promote information and communication technologies in the ACP countries;

(c)

methodological support and capacity building (EU-25 million), for, inter alia, the setting-up of an intra-ACP migration capacity building facility;

(d)

strategic partnership with the UN and support for the implementation of intra-ACP programmes (EUR 20 million), for the strengthening of cooperation with UN organisations closest to ACP-EC development policy priorities, in particular in the areas of governance and post-conflict situations, and new needs to improve the impact of intra-ACP activities.