Trans-European networks for the electronic interchange of data between administrations IDA II: guidelines and projects

At second reading under codecision procedure, the European Parliament approved the recommendation by Imelda Mary Read (PSE,UK), which amends as follows common position 8/1999/EC adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a European Parliament and Council decision on a series of guidelines, including the identification of projects of common interest, for trans-European networks for the electronic Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA): - with regard to funding of IDA projects, giving priority to those projects which provide benefits to persons in (rather than citizens of) the European Union; - under the general category of projects of common interest under the IDA programme, adding those networks which are urgently required to support the action of the Community and the Member States in the area of the protection of the living conditions of persons in the European Union.�