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Conditions for granting assistance

The Commission adopts strategic guidelines for each Fund which set out a framework for the intervention of the Fund. On the basis of these guidelines, each Member State prepares a multiannual programme which is implemented through an annual programme.

The multiannual programme must consist of a description of the current situation in the Member State as regards the principle of integrated return management, an analysis of the requirements in the Member State, an appropriate strategy to achieve the objectives, and an indication of whether the strategy is compatible with other regional, national and Community instruments. The programme must also include a financing plan which sets out the Fund's proposed financial contribution for each priority.

The management of the Funds comes under the remit of the Ministry of the Interior. For more information on the new Funds, please visit the website of the European Commission at http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/intro/funding_solidarity_en.htm

The Decisions establishing the Funds have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union: the Decisions establishing the European Refugee Fund, the External Borders Fund and the European Return Fund in the Journal L 144 of 6 June 2007 and the Decision establishing the Integration Fund in the Journal L 168 of 28 June 2007. They can be found at

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?textfield2=144&year=2007&Submit=Hae&serie=L

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/fi/oj/2007/l_168/l_16820070628fi00180036.pdf