Agenda 2000: financial perspectives 2000-2006, interinstitutional agreement on budgetary discipline

The Council took note of information provided by Commissioner LIIKANEN regarding the updating of the Commission's financial planning for categories 3 (expenditure on internal policies) and 4 (expediture on external action) of the financial perspective. The information was preliminary in nature, prior to the Commission's submission of the 1997 preliminaty draft budget and the Trialogue on budget priorities, scheduled for 16 April. The information had been requested by certain Member States following the conclusions on financial planning adopted by the Council on 19 June 1995. In that context, the Council also raised the question of revision of the financial perspective for 1997.�