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"In response to the question put to me by Mr Hatzidakis, I should like to stress the Commission's delight at the ambitious scope of Greece's regional development plan for the new period 2000-2006. This plan will promote the structural reforms needed so that Greece can honour its commitment within Economic and Monetary Union.
Negotiations to establish this Community support framework have allowed certain aspects of the strategy for the regional development plan to be strengthened, especially with regard to education, vocational training and environmental protection.
At the moment, Mr Hatzidakis, the challenge which we must take up together is to genuinely achieve these objectives by ensuring that the Structural Funds and the corresponding national funds are managed efficiently. The Commission has drawn the attention of the Greek authorities – I personally have done so twice on two visits to Athens within the space of nine months – to the need to set up efficient administrative structures before Community appropriations are transferred. The most important thing is to set up management authorities and, as a matter of priority, the management authority for the Community Support Framework.
The Commission has welcomed the intention of the Greek authorities to adopt a new specific legal framework by the autumn, to regulate all these matters. I personally – since I shall be in Greece for an official visit to Athens and Crete in October – shall have an opportunity to specify and verify this point. Negotiations on the adoption of the Community support framework are in the final stages, even though a number of points have yet to be finalised, with regard mainly to the distribution of financial allocations and the definition of the implementation system.
We expect and we hope, Mr Hatzidakis, that these points will also be quickly finalised. Negotiations on the adoption of operational programmes have started in parallel with the final stage of negotiations on the Community support framework. These negotiations are progressing normally and I trust that we will be able to approve certain programmes by the end of August."@en1
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