Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters: framework programme AGIS for 2003-2007

PURPOSE: to present the third annual report (2005) on the implementation of the AGIS programme.

CONTENT: this annual report highlights the following:

-          Compared to 2004, there was a reduction of the co-financing of conferences and seminars (from EUR 3.38 to EUR 2.35 million), as well as of training, (from EUR 3.09 to EUR 2.61 million) and a small increase of the amounts awarded to research and studies (from EUR 7.23 to EUR 7.40 million).

-          The total amount requested, i.e. the demand, decreased from EUR 30.31 million, in 2004, to EUR 24.24 million in 2005.

As for the beneficiaries, some aspects are worth underlining. The weight of National Authorities increased, in terms of the number of projects co-financed, from 49.1%, in 2004, to 51.7 %, in 2005, and from 37.1%, in 2004, to 43.9%, in 2005, in terms of the awarded grants.

In 2005, the average subvention amounted to approx. EUR 117.000 per project (EUR 13.3 million/114 projects), which represents a decrease of 9.4% from the average of EUR 128.000 (EUR 13.8 million/108).

From the total amount of appropriations of 2005 – EUR 15.745.000 million – the total amount committed added up to EUR 13.334.545.12 million, a high rate of execution of 84.7%.