YOUTH IN ACTION 2007-13 (6328/08)
Letter from the Chairman to Beverley Hughes
MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families,
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Your Explanatory Memorandum was considered by
Sub-Committee G at their meeting held on 13 March.
We accept that the Commission's proposal to
speed up the decision making procedure for awarding grants for
youth in action projects seems well intentioned.
We understand that the modification to the proposed
amending Decision that you wish to seek would not detract from
this approach, but would ensure that any particularly significant
projects are brought to the attention of Member States represented
on the Youth in Action Programme Committee before they can go
ahead.
Our view is that the safeguard you wish to pursue
would be prudent and we urge you to seek agreement to it in Council
and elsewhere.
We now clear the Commission proposal from scrutiny
and ask you to write to us again when the final form of the amending
Decision to be considered at the 22 May Education and Youth
Council meeting has been decided.
13 March 2008
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