Protection of natural resources: promotion of tropical forests, Community action

The common position retains the basics of the Commission proposal and incorporates almost all Parliament's amendments included by the Commission in its amended proposal. However, the Council was unable to agree with the Commission on the following points: - the Council set an initial period of three years (1995-1997), with the facility for an extension in the light of an overall evaluation, to be carried out by the end of 1997; - for reasons of efficiency and coherence with other projects in the same region, the Council decided to make the ALA committee and the EDF committee responsible for giving an opinion on the projects proposed, using the IIIa (regulatory) committee procedure; - the Council inserted a reference to the amounts deemed necessary (ADN) for these projects: ECU 50 million per annum, which corresponds to the figures actually entered by the budgetary authority in previous years.�