Employment creation and support for small and micro-enterprises in the Maghreb countries

The Commission's amended proposal includes amendments from the European Parliament which aim to : - accord a particular importance to investment projects allowing the creation of jobs for women and young people and taking into account the impact on the environment of all the actions; - guarantee respect for confidentiality of information contained in the Commission's annual report concerning the investment projects financed; - provide that the projects evaluation reports are transmitted to the Parliament, the Council and the Member States; - include amongst the performance indicators agreed for each project: the control of the functional and continuous nature of jobs and the proportionality of funding in comparison to the number of jobs created. On the other hand, the Commission has not taken up the amendment aiming to substitute for the MED Committee, a consultative committee of type I.�