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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8472

29 May 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 41
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/cohesion
Commission wants Member States to share responsibility for managing structural funds

Brussels, 28/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Barnier feels that the "basic condition" for better management and simplification of structural funds in the future is "new distribution of responsibility" between Member States and the Commission. He believes that management and controls should be "strongly decentralised" so that Member States have "sole responsibility, unlike the situation at present whereby it is the exclusive domain of the Commission, which is accountable directly to...

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