Brussels, 28/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - The battle was hard but not in vain. In the evening of 27 March, the European Parliament and the Council reached a conciliation agreement on LIFE+, the financial instrument for the environment for 2007-13, which will have a budget of €1.951bn.
Conciliation procedure was unavoidable (EUROPE 9380 and 9302) and mainly used to tackle the difficult problem of more control being devolved to member states in the management of these funds - the Parliament...