Daphne Programme 2000-2003: action relating to violence against children, young persons and women

This amended proposal is a result of deliberations within the Council ad hoc DAPHNE working group, which concluded that the appropriate legal base for the DAPHNE programme is Article 129 of the EC Treaty (Public Health) and not Article 235 as was the case in the initial proposal. As a result, the Commission is amending the legal base accordingly and including the appropriate amendments to effect this change (notably, the inclusion of a financial reference amount within the body of the text, to be maintained at 25 million Euros for the period 2000-2004, as put forward in the initial proposal's financial statement.�