# Council Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5 December 2000 on assistance for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1628/96 and amending Regulations (EEC) No 3906/89 and (EEC) No 1360/90 and Decisions 97/256/EC and 1999/311/EC, Article 3

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Save in exceptional, duly substantiated cases, Community assistance shall be provided as follows:
(a) a strategic framework (‘country strategic paper’), for the period 2000 to 2006, which shall serve to set long-term objectives for assistance and priority fields of action in recipient countries. For this purpose, due account shall be taken of all relevant assessments. The strategic framework shall be revised if exceptional events so require or in the light of the results of the assessment provided for in Article 12;
(b) on the basis of the strategic framework referred to in point (a), multiannual indicative programmes shall be drawn up, for three-year periods, for each country receiving Community assistance. They shall reflect priorities set under the stabilisation and association process and priorities identified and agreed with the partners concerned. Such programmes shall describe the reforms to be carried out by partners in priority sectors and include an assessment of progress made in doing so. They shall give indicative amounts (overall and for each priority sector) and set out criteria for funding the programme concerned. They shall be updated each year as necessary. They may be amended in the light of experience and progress in implementing stabilisation and association agreements, particularly as regards regional cooperation;
(c) annual action programmes, based on the multiannual indicative programmes referred to in point (b), shall be drawn up for each country receiving Community assistance. They shall set out, as precisely as possible, for a given operational year, the aims being pursued, the fields of action and the budget provided. The annual action programmes shall contain a detailed list of projects to be financed and specify the relevant amounts.
2. The strategic framework, the multiannual indicative programmes and the annual action programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 10(2).
Any amendments shall be adopted in accordance with the same procedure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2000/2666/article/3 (the official version)
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