Research RTD, 4th framework-programme 1994-1998: adjustment of funding following 1995 enlargement (amend. Decision 1110/94/EC)

The Commission considered that the Council's common position made it possible to maintain the Union's overall appropriations for research at their current level and to confirm the full participation of the three new Member States (in 1994, the contributions of the three new Member States to the third framework programme on research and development, as members of the EEA, reached 6.87%, a percentage that was retained by the Council for research activities). Therefore, the Commission hoped that the EP could accept the common position and rapidly conclude its second reading. �