SAVE II, multiannual Community programme for energy efficiency: participation of Lithuania
1998/0122(CNS)
OBJECTIVE: in the context of the pre-accession strategy, opening up the Community programme
for energy efficiency (SAVE II) to Lithuania for the years 1998 to 2000.
SUBSTANCE: This proposal for a decision by the EC-Lithuania Association Council establishes
the terms and conditions for that country's participation in the SAVE II Community programme. In
particular, Lithuania:
- will participate in all the programme's activities on the same terms as the Member States and in
conformity with the objectives, criteria and procedures of the programme;
- will apply the same terms and conditions for the submission, assessment and selection of
applications as those applying to the Member States;
- will provide for a minimum number of partners from the Member States to be included in all
proposed transnational actions and projects;
- will pay a financial contribution to the Community budget to cover its participation in the
programme.
This contribution will cover financial assistance granted to Lithuanian participants in the programme
and the supplementary administrative costs related to the Commission's management of the
programme. This contribution will be ECU 96 570 per year in 1998, 1999 and 2000. The
Community will partly cover the cost of these contributions by taking the appropriate sums from the
annual PHARE allocation to Lithuania (PHARE is to contribute 90% of the cost in 1998, 70% in
1991 and 50% in 2000, the rest, including the administrative costs relating to the management of the
programme, to be covered by Lithuania's national budget).
Lithuania will be involved in monitoring its participation in the programme in preparation for its
participation in the Community decision-making process when it becomes a member (in particular,
by taking part in coordination meetings prior to the meetings of the SAVE committee and being
informed of that committee's results).
Lithuania will participate for the duration of the programme (until 31 December 2000).
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