Environment: promoting NGO primarily active in the field of environmental protection (Community action programme)

In its opinion on the Council's common position on this proposal, the Commission stated that it did not even want a proposal for a financial reference amount to be included in the text, since it was incompatible with the joint declaration by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission of 6 March 1995. It included a statement to this effect in the Council's minutes. The Commission accepted the remainder of the text put forward by the Council. �