Legal bases and maximum amounts. Communication and interinstitutional statements

During the meeting of 13 February 1995 in Strasbourg, the Committee on Budgets approved, with 19 votes in favour, 3 against and 6 abstentions, the report by Mr SAMLAND on the Commission's communication to the budgetary authority concerning legal bases and maximum amounts. This report involved a draft statement by the three institutions concerning the inclusion of financial provisions in legislative acts. This statement, negotiated during the trialogue of 23 January 1995 and a conciliation committee on the Socrates and Youth for Europe programmes, provided an operational framework for the financial provisions in legislative acts by differentiating between the programmes adopted through the codecision procedure (which included a provision on the financial envelope for the entire duration of the programme) and the programmes not subject to the codecision procedure (in which the Council could provide a financial reference, of an illustrative nature, which did not affect the powers of the budgetary authority). �