The support fund for the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership is designed to fund technical assistance activities complementing the European Investment Bank investment operations from identification to implementation, such as feasibility and other studies, training, monitoring, and advisory activities. Euro 19 million will benefit Mediterranean Partners other than Turkey and the remaining Euro 6 million has been earmarked for Turkey.
The Middle East Peace Projects (MEPP) 2003 (with funding to the tune of Euro 10 million) will be a direct follow-up of the previous MEPP frameworks. They are to provide funding to help strengthen civil society in the Middle East, for enhancing peace initiatives on both the Israeli and Palestinian/Arab side, and to promote and explore ideas for a peaceful solution to the conflict programme. Initiatives seeking to promote peace and tolerance and action to develop an agreement on the final status of the occupied Palestinian Territories will be regarded as priorities under the programme, as contemplated in the declaration issued at the June 2002 EU Summit in Seville.
The Training of Public Administrations programme (Euro 6 million) will act as a regional instrument for backing and amplifying national institutional reform initiatives and accommodating the need to train public administrations in European issues. The aim is to facilitate cooperation so as to plan joint training activities in fields with a European dimension and promote exchanges of information and good practice in public administration training and good governance.
Euromed Heritage III programme (Euro 10 million) is designed to promote heritage common to both shores of the Mediterranean as a tool for policies of tolerance, peace and stability. The programme will support 4 projects selected under the Euromed Heritage II Call for Proposals, and aimed at increasing the Mediterranean partners' capacity in managing and enhancing their own heritage.
The Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System project (EMWIS/SEMIDE) (Euro 2 million) involves a Euro-Mediterranean water information network based on the Internet and intranets available to all the MEDA partners and the EU Member States concerning a wide range of scientific and technological issues. The second phase is being proposed in the wake of the Mediterranean partners' request for support in creating their own water information systems.
The project Support to the Implementation of the South-South Sub-regional Free Trade Area of Agadir (Euro 4 million), aims to assist the countries concerned (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia) in the areas of customs and sectoral studies, and to achieve their common organisational structure, in line with the aims in the Barcelona process's chapter on economic and financial co-operation. Launched on a sub-regional basis, the initiative will enable the MEDA partners to expose their economies gradually to competition, to continue making the transition and to free up their economies. They will also be able to establish a larger market likely to attractive direct flows of foreign investment.
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