Article 7 Committee

the general guidelines for the implementation of this programme and the financial support to be supplied by the Community;

the annual plan of work for the implementation of this programme's actions, including priorities, the themes for the thematic actions and the joint actions and the Commission proposals for project selection, including those under the joint actions;

the annual budgets and distribution of funding between measures, as well as joint actions, accompanying measures and projects of European organisations;

the criteria applicable for establishing the indicative breakdown of funds among the Member States for the purpose of the actions to be managed according to selection procedure A (Annex I, Section III);

the arrangements for monitoring and evaluating the programme and for the dissemination and transfer of results.

The Commission shall adopt measures which apply immediately.

However, if these measures are not in accordance with the opinion of the Committee, they shall be communicated by the Commission to the Council forthwith. In that event,

• the Commission shall defer application of the measures which it has decided for a period of up to two months from the date of the communication,

• the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take a different decision within the time limit referred to in the preceding indent.