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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with regard to the two chapters of the Community budget mentioned by Mr Staes as a source of credit to support the arms industry, the Commission would like to make the following clarifications.
In the case of the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, the Commission points out that the text of the decision on the Fifth Framework Programme, which is currently underway, having been adopted by joint decision of Parliament and of the Council, stipulates that funding under this programme must be granted to projects with civil objectives. In practical terms, this means that specific support for the arms industry is not possible through the research framework programme.
As concerns the Structural Funds, the Commission launched a programme in 1993, in the context of a crisis in the defence industry, called ‘Konver’. This was an aid programme to convert the labour market areas most affected by the reduction in armament activities or the closure of military sites.
The aim of the Community initiatives was to support the diversification of sectors heavily dependent on defence by converting production away from areas related to defence and developing the activities of industrial sectors other than the military sector. The multiannual Konver programme, which ran from 1994 to 1999, financed measures such as the acquisition of new civil qualifications by staff, the diversification of the economic structure of companies, aid for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, the reallocation of military sites to new civil sectors and the rehabilitation of the environment.
With regard to the budget, the funding allocated to these Structural Funds is EUR 739 million at 1996 prices, which is an average of EUR 125 million per year. During the 2000-2006 programme period, Konver was abolished as a separate initiative, but actions financed by Konver are still possible within the context of programmes relating to objectives 1 and 2."@en1
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