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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to start by congratulating the rapporteur, Mrs Gröner and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities on this extremely positive report, which concerns the DAPHNE II Programme, the second five-year phase of a programme to combat violence against children, young people and women. This proposal is a response to and a direct consequence of the recommendation made by the European Parliament in its interim report on the first DAPHNE Programme, in which it calls for violence to continue to be combated beyond 2003. Parliament's report on the mid-term review of the DAPHNE Programme in 2002 had already presented an opportunity for us to debate some of the initial ideas on a programme that could follow on from the DAPHNE Programme.
We could, therefore, say that this proposal for DAPHNE II is in line with the discussions we held at that time: an increase in financial and human resources and more sharing of information and best practice, amongst other aspects. The Commission has not made any substantial changes to the objectives, mechanisms or beneficiaries of the programme, because the current DAPHNE Programme is acknowledged to be an instrument that has produced excellent results. In footballing terms, we would say that there is no point in changing a winning team.
We have, however, proposed some improvements to increase the programme’s impact. The main improvement is doubtless the increase to the programme’s budget: EUR 41 million as compared to EUR 20 million. The need for a larger budget is indeed a concern that the Commission and Parliament share. Since the time that this proposal was presented to Parliament, the needs associated with the European Union’s enlargement have been taken into account with regard to all Commission instruments and, as you can see in the proposal for the 2004 budget, the sum currently earmarked for the DAPHNE II Programme stands at EUR 49.2 million for the period 2004-2008. This sum will provide almost EUR 10 million per year, which represents a 100% increase, a doubling of current resources. This will put us in a better position from which to address the growing demand from organisations in Europe and the consequences of enlargement too.
A second improvement consists of the list of activities that can be supported and that are referred to in Article 4. The DAPHNE II proposal is clearer than DAPHNE I where this type of activity is concerned. Another change has been made to exchange the information and best practice developed under the programme. The aim of this is to increase the programme’s impact on the groups involved. Specific invitations to submit proposals will be published with a view to identifying and defining the policies to pursue, where possible on the basis of the work already undertaken by the projects that have been funded to date. The aim is also to disseminate on a European scale the good practices developed in projects that have been funded. This could be achieved by producing and making available not only traditional written material but also an increasing number of CD-ROMs, films, videos and websites or by promoting or arranging exchanges of experienced staff between civil society organisations in order to support the implementation of new solutions or practices that have proven to be effective in another context. The last change we have made is to enable non-governmental organisations to use, adapt or transfer the results of the DAPHNE Programme to other parts of the Union or to other categories of beneficiaries.
These are the basic outlines of the presentation I wish to make, and I look forward to the debate and the questions you might want to ask so that we can obtain Parliament’s approval for this programme which I believe is a milestone in the fight against violence in the European Union."@en1
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