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{{Short description|Foreign and technical assistance programme}}
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'''TACIS''' is an abbreviation of "'''Technical Assistance 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 economics|transition to democratic market-oriented economies]]. TACIS is now subsumed in the [[Global Europe]] programme.

==History==
Launched by the [[European Economic Community]] in 1991, the Tacis Programme provides grant-financed technical assistance to 12 countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia ([[Armenia]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Belarus]], [[Georgia (country)|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]]. Nuclear safety projects are covered by the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation. However, Tacis projects programmed from 2006 continued to operate until 2012.

==See also==
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* [[Economy of Europe]]
* [[Foreign relations of the European Union]]

==External links==
* [http://nuclear.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tacis-insc/ Results of TACIS nuclear-safety-related  projects]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110824105839/http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/finance/nsci_en.htm EC website on the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation]

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[[Category:European Union foreign aid]]
[[Category:Foreign relations of the Commonwealth of Independent States]]
[[Category:Commonwealth of Independent States–European Union relations]]
[[Category:Aid]]
[[Category:1991 in Europe]]
[[Category:Aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union]]


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