33. Urges the Commission to plan a non-decrease in real terms of overall funding for each beneficiary; notes that this calculation should be made taking into consideration the following: a) the ratio of overall programmed IPA assistance to each country’s GDP should not decrease in relative terms even if, in real terms, the denominator (GDP) for each beneficiary country has shown a cumulativ
e increase over the period 2007-2013; b) the number of countries with access to funding through the future instrument is likely to decrease with the accession of Croatia, which would potentially change the comparative redistribution within the pool o
...[+++]f funding; c) with the suggested changes to the new Instrument serving to remove differentiation between countries on the basis of their candidacy status, more countries will be able to access funding – hitherto inaccessible to non-candidate countries – earmarked for policy areas focusing on socioeconomic development; recommends, in this context, that no beneficiary be precluded from sufficient and fair access to funding due to limited EU resources, in particular as regards the policy area of institution-building;
(c) avec les modifications proposées pour le nouvel instrument, destinées à supprimer la différenciation entre les pays sur la base de leur statut de candidat ou non, un plus grand nombre de pays seront éligibles au financement (dont les pays non candidats ne pouvaient pas jusqu'à présent bénéficier) des domaines axés sur le développement socioéconomique; recommande, dans ce contexte, de ne pas priver les bénéficiaires de l'accès suffisant et équitable au financement en raison d'une limitation des ressources de l'UE, en particulier dans le domaine du renforcement institutionnel;