Humanitarian aid

The rapporteur, Mrs PEREZ DEL ARCO, believed that the humanitarian policy and the development policy should be better coordinated. She highlighted in particular the need to coordinate the activities of all of ECHO’s operational partners in order to guarantee effective and complementary measures on humanitarian aid. She hoped that the 1996 IGC would look at the issue of the legal basis for humanitarian aid. The Commissioner, Mrs BONINO, stated that she was rejecting Amendments Nos 2, 3, 12 and 16 because they mentioned the framework partnership contract, which was a management tool of the Commission, Amendment No 18 because, as in the previous case, the Regulation should not deal with an issue involving the internal coordination of the Commission’s services, Amendment No 21 on the requirement to inform Parliament of the implementation of humanitarian aid, which was already provided for under the Plumb-Delors procedure, and Amendment No 22, which was superfluous.