Community action programme 'Socrates'

The Council adopted its common position on this proposal for a decision. In its common position, the Council maintained the essential elements of the Commission proposal but added a number of amendments concerning: - comitology: the Council opted for a committee whose terms of reference would be based either on the management committee procedure or advisory committee procedure, depending on circumstances. The committee would be assisted by two sub-committees: one in the field of higher education and the other in the field of school education; - financing: the Council included in the text of the decision the amount deemed necessary (ADN) in terms of Community financial resources to implement the programme, which totalled ECU 760 million, broken down as follows: a minimum of 55% for the Erasmus programme, a minimum of 10% for the "Europe at school" programme, and at least 25% for the other actions (including linguistic actions); - the procedure for selecting projects: the Council amended the procedures for proposing and selecting projects according to whether an action was deemed to be centralised or decentralised; - the scope of actions under Chapter II - Action 2 (School education): the Council extended the scope of this action to include the children of migrant workers and the children of occupational travellers as well as including the concept of intercultural education; - the aims of certain actions under Chapter III, by strengthening the measure aimed at promoting the European dimension of adult learning in comparison to the original proposal; - the name of the chapters, by stipulating that Chapter I would be called "Erasmus" and Chapter II would be called "Comenius". �