Combating social exclusion and encouraging solidarity: programme of support 1994-1999

The European Parliament tabled many amendments which, in addition to making several changes to the wording, aimed to: include the fight against poverty and the integration of disadvantaged persons as objectives of the new programme; remove the reference to the principle of subsidiarity; state that this new programme should be allocated a minimum of ECU 200 million; ensure that, on the one hand, the representatives of the Member States in the advisory committee assisting the Commission were representatives of the government and, on the other hand, that representatives of organisations affected by the programme took part in the committee; amend, in Annex 2, the breakdown of the total cost of the actions planned for 1995. �