Public health: Community action programme 1996-2000 on the prevention of drug dependence

In its opinion on the Council's common position, the Commission stated that it could not support the text adopted by the Council for three main reasons: - budget: limited to ECU 27 million instead of ECU 28.5 million; - comitology: introduction of a mixed committee with responsibility for all important decisions relating to the programme (particularly the financing of measures); - annex comprising the measures to be implemented: the EP's amendments rejected by the Council concerning the social reintegration of drug addicts, the completion of a Community guide to bodies involved in the rehabilitation of drug addicts, a joint analysis of the Member States' policies to be implemented and a multidimensional approach to the fight against drugs had been incorporated into the Commission's amended proposal, since it felt, like the European Parliament, that these were essential issues. �