Technical Aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States
- Technical Aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States
TACIS is an abbreviation of "Technical Aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States" programme, a foreign and technical assistance programme implemented by the European Commission to help members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (as well as Mongolia), in their transition to democratic market-oriented economies. TACIS is now subsumed in the EuropeAid programme.
Launched by the EC in 1991, the Tacis Programme provides grant-financed technical assistance to 12 countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). Mongolia was also covered by the Tacis programme from 1991 to 2003, but is now covered by the ALA Programme.
From the 2007-2013 EU Financial Perspective, the Tacis Programme has been replaced for the countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy and Russia by the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. However Tacis projects programmed from 2006 will continue to operate until the end of the decade.
The European Union remains the single largest donor of foreign assistance in the world. As of 2006, most EU aid is now un-tied.
External links
* [http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/ceeca/tacis/index.htm Main TACIS site]
* [http://www.welcomeurope.com/default.asp?id=1110&idpgm=11088 TACIS European funding programme]
* [http://www.tacisinfo.ru Miscellaneous TACIS information]
* [http://sic-www.jrc.nl/tp/pds.htm Results of TACIS nuclear-safety-related projects]
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