This is therefore an opportunity for us to use the new Community support framework to promote research and technology.

I will therefore monitor this in the implementation of the new Community support framework.

I fully approve the four priorities established by the second Community support framework for the period 1994-1999.

All operational programmes, including the Community support framework, are being independently assessed by outside experts.

The first stage was a successful one which coincided with the first Community support framework.

This law is based on the provisions included in the Community Support Framework.

What provisions have been made under the 3rd Community Support Framework in this respect?

Both the first and second Community support frameworks confirm the policies of successive Irish governments.

So I shall be checking with the Greek government that everything is in place at the level of this new Community support framework.

The mid-term revision of these Community support frameworks, currently covering the period 1994-1999, can provide an opportunity to emphasize this orientation.

That is why we have asked the Greek Government to reconsider the priorities for the second Community support framework.

The most important thing is to set up management authorities and, as a matter of priority, the management authority for the Community Support Framework.

If possible, could she perhaps be more specific on the forecasts and the specific funds incorporated into the third Community Support Framework?

The problem lies with the employment services which Greece started to reform at the end of the second Community Support Framework.

How do you explain that, and what critical view would you take of the Greek Government's actions during the second Community support framework?

Under the second Community Support Framework and the Kleisthenis programme, certain projects in these two sectors should have been completed by now.

This is one of the major challenges of the Greek government's national action plan and the Community Support Framework.

Negotiations on the adoption of operational programmes have started in parallel with the final stage of negotiations on the Community support framework.

Under the law on public works certain types of operations were cofinanced, and certain operations were carried from one Community support framework to another.

Because, as an example, the Community support frameworks in Spain were not even discussed with certain regional parliaments, and this trend obviously needs to be changed.

Mr President, I am not convinced by the Community support frameworks that I have seen.

It was completed in 2009 with the support of the Greece's Third Community Support Framework.

Will there be incentives and penalties from now on in order to ensure that the Community Support Framework is applied correctly to those who need it?

Finally, time marches on inexorably, Commissioner, towards the end of the Second Community Support Framework.

The third Community Support Framework includes a hefty 2.9 trillion drachmas to fund pro-active employment policies and reforms.