European Commission: Strategy Paper and Report 2003

The chapter on ``Other matters''

The chapter on ``other matters'' will not be treated as the other negotiating chapters. It essentially constitutes a negotiating box in which a number of elements, which are largely uncontroversial but do not have their place in the other negotiating chapters, can be placed. The chapter ``other matters'', which should be dealt with in early November, is likely to include the following element:

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the rules applicable to the management and phasing out of pre-accession funds;

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the definition of the envisaged transition facility for certain institution building actions;

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the legal basis for the management of funds for the decommissioning of the nuclear power plants of Ignalina in Lithuania and Bohunice in Slovakia;

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a number of declarations, protocols and additional elements to be included in the Treaty, such as the closure commitments for the above-mentioned nuclear power plants ;

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a legal basis for the above mentioned facility for the northern part of Cyprus.

Further details on these elements are given in Annex 2.