43. Recalls that the appropriations to be entered in the PDB 2001 for the TACIS programme must be accompanied by clear information giving the estimated breakdown by sectors and beneficiary countries, welcomes the Council's decision to re-focus the Tacis 2000 programme on core areas directly promoting democratic values in Russia, and to transfer uncommitted balan
ces to humanitarian assistance and the promotion of networking in civil society; requests the Commission, in the Preliminary Draft Budget, to enter the appropriations related to Russia in the reserve (B0-40 ), as long as a clear identification of the programmes and projects to be
...[+++] financed is not available and their respect of the principles and guidelines decided by Parliament and the Council, as regards the Chechnya conflict, has not been achieved;