Community action programme Socrates: financial framework 1995-1999

In its assessment of the common position established by the Council, amending the decision establishing the SOCRATES Programme, the Commission announced that it was unable to accept the Council's proposal to limit to ECU 25 m the increase in the budgetary appropriation instead of the ECU 50 m proposed by the Commission in its initial proposal. It took the view that the ECU 900 m which it had proposed was an absolute minimum to meet the objectives and the needs of the SOCRATES Action Programme and it expressed the hope that the final decision would reflect this proposal as closely as possible and that the text would be adopted sufficiently early enough to be implemented at the beginning of 1998.�