Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council concerning the implementation and the results of the Pericles programme for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting 2006-2013

The ‘Pericles’ Programme is an exchange, assistance and training programme for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting. The Programme was established by Council Decision 2001/923/EC of 17 December 2001 for a four year period (1 January 2002 to 31 December 2005). This Decision was amended by two Council Decisions: 2006/75/EC of 30 January 2006 and 2006/849/EC of 20 November 2006, hereafter the Pericles Decision. The latter Decision extended the duration of the programme until 31 December 2013.

Article 13(3)(b) of Council Decision 2001/923/EC, as amended by Council Decision 2006/849/EC, requires a detailed report on the implementation and results of the Programme to be submitted to the European Parliament and Council by 30 June 2014. This report responds to that requirement in relation to the implementation period 2006-2013 and builds on the evaluation carried out in 2013 referred to in section 2 of this report.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2014)550: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:550:FIN

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