| Author (Corporate) | European Commission: DG Communication |
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| Series Title | Press Release |
| Series Details | IP/11/1148 (3.10.11) |
| Publication Date | 03/10/2011 |
| Content Type | News |
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The EU Aid for the Needy scheme, which provides food for as many as 18 million of the EU's most deprived citizens, faced a drastic cut in spending in 2012 following an ECJ Court ruling in April 2011. In a further effort to overcome the deadlock in the Council of Ministers and maintain the food distribution programme at current levels, the European Commission put forward a second amended proposal in October 2011 to provide an impetus for a political agreement and to allow the successful food distribution scheme to continue in 2012 and 2013, as well as in the future. The amendments proposed will add a second legal base, namely social cohesion, reflecting the scheme's important social dimension. A further change is to remove the proposed provision for co-financing the scheme in future. Earlier proposals to avoid this problem were tabled by the Commission in 2008 and 2010 have been backed by the European Parliament and a number of Member States, but the dossier remains blocked in the Council. |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe |
