Council Decision of 30 January 2006 amending and extending Decision 2001/923/EC establishing an exchange, assistance and training programme for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting (the ‘Pericles’ programme) (2006/75/EC) (repealed)

Article 1 Amendments

Decision 2001/923/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1.

the last sentence of Article 1(2) shall be replaced by the following:

‘It shall run from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2006.’;

2.

the following point shall be added to Article 2(2):

‘(e)

an aim to publish the results achieved, as part of the exchange of information, experience and good practices.’;

3.

the following point shall be added to Article 3(3):

‘(d)

on a secondary basis financial support for cooperation in cross-border operations when such support is not available from other European institutions and bodies.’;

4.

the first subparagraph of Article 6 shall be replaced by the following:

‘The financial reference amount for the implementation of the Community action programme for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2005 shall be EUR 4 million.

The financial reference amount for the implementation of the Community action programme for the period from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006 shall be EUR 1 million.’;

5.

in Article 10(1), the introductory phrase shall be replaced by the following:

‘The Community shall, in duly justified cases, bear up to 80 % of the cost of the operational support referred to in Article 3 by way of co-financing, in particular:’;

6.

in Article 11 ‘70 %’ shall be replaced by ‘80 %’;

7.

Article 12 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Member States may present one or, exceptionally, two projects a year concerning the workshops, meetings and seminars referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3(2). Projects in connection with placements, exchanges or assistance may also be presented.’;

(b)

the following subparagraph shall be added to paragraph 1:

‘In case more than one proposal are presented by one Member State, coordination is carried out by the national competent authority defined in Article 2(b) fourth indent of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001.’;

(c)

in paragraph 2, point (e) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(e)

the intrinsic quality of the project in terms of its conception, organisation, presentation, objectives and cost-effectiveness ratio’;

(d)

the following point shall be added in paragraph 2:

‘(h)

compatibility with work being carried out or planned as part of EU action in the field of combating currency counterfeiting’.