EU Policies and Funds

Central and Eastern Europe

On 1 May 2004, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Malta and Cyprus officially became EU Member States. Bulgaria and Romania are to joinin 2007 while Turkey is not currenlty negociating for its membership.

Together with the membership, new opportunities opened for the civil society actors and the non-governmental organisations of the new Member States to participate in specific EU policies and programmes.

In the EU territory and in the EU neighbouring countries:

• CONVENTION AND PARTNERSHIP WITH CIVIL SOCIETY
• DAPHNE II 2004-2008 : support to those actions which prevent or combat all types of violence against children, young people and women and protect the victims and groups at-risk. A second phase of DAPHNE is open. The first Calls for Proposals under the Programme are expected to be issued in November (2004) to be able to start the projects from July (2005). NGOs based in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey are eligible as well. Details of the Programme can be found in the Council Decision and in the Annual Work Plan 2004.

  Download: Council Decision enacting the Second Phase of DAPHNE , Annual Work Plan 2004, Guide to DAPHNE Programmes, How to prepare a proposal, What has been funded so far

• FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS : support actions promoting the respect of fundamental rights as in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European union. The Legal documents which are to embed the main principles of the present Programme may be found at keywords.

In the third countries:

The aid flows from the EU are in accordance with the prioritisation of countries of the DAC (Development Cooperation Directorate) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) . The list is designed for statistical purposes and helps to measure and classify aid and other resource flows originating in DAC countries. in DAC statistics, "developing country" means a country on Part I of the DAC List of Aid Recipients. The list is reviewd every three years.

The European Commission "NGO Co-financing" unit - EUROPEAID / F2 - is in charge of management of two major budget lines :

1) BUDGET LINE 21 02 03 (ex B7-6000) covering two types of financing for the ACP (Africa, Carrabean and Pacific countries):

• The actions of development in favour of developing countries : PVD where the financing is accessible only to NGOs from EU Member States Cooperation among partners ( Click here for the list of projects selected in 2003, only in French) ;
• The actions to raise public awareness in the EU Member States in relation to the main development issues affecting the developing countries (Click here for the list of projects selected in 2003);

2) BUDGET LINE 21 02 13 (ex-B7-6002) covering the decentralised Co-operation ;

• The actions aiming at strengthening the civil society in the ACP countries where the financing is accessible to non-state actors from the EU Member States and non-state actors from the developing countries.( Click here for the list of projects selected in 2003, only in French)

To know more about EU development policies visit http://www.aprodev.net/devpol/index.htm

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS : support actions promoting the respect of fundamental rights as in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European union. The Legal documents which are to embed the main principles of the present Programme may be found at keywords.

In developeing countries:

DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION and COFINANCING