Brussels, 21/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Later this week the EP's Budget Committee will approve the report by Reimer Böge (CDU) on the Commission's Communication on the 2004-2006 financial framework for the accession negotiations. Böge's draft report (which can be amended by the Committee of course) was quite restrained concerning the problem of funding enlargement, arguing that the budget information provided by the Commission has to serve as the basis for changes to be made to the Financial Perspectives (when the EU has up to 10 new Member States in 2004), stressing that the accession negotiations should take into account not just differences in the interests of current Member States but also the needs of candidate countries. Böge broadly supports the negotiations strategies proposed by the Commission for agriculture (gradual incorporation of the new countries in the direct aid scheme, 100% direct aid in 2013), rural development (gradually moving to 80% EU cofunding rates for programmes) and aid for closing down nuclear power stations in Bohunice (Slovakia) and Ignalina (Lithuania). Böge wondered whether the new Member States' will have sufficient absorption capacity for structural aid.