EC/developing countries: rehabilitation and reconstruction operations in developing countries

The Commission did not support the Council's common position for reasons of comitology: the Commission did not accept the use of a regulatory committee (type IIIa committee) for the purposes of this regulation. It also had two comments entered in the Council minutes to the effect that: - the inclusion of developing countries in central Asia and the Caucasus should give rise to an increase in budgetary contributions in order to fund these operations and they should be consistent with the TACIS programme; - the information to be provided to the committee on operations costing less than ECU 2 million should be far more restricted.