PHARE programme - Annual Report 1995
The 1995 Annual Report of the PHARE programme, which provides technical assistance to the Central and Eastern European countries, has recently been published by the European Commission, DG IA. Following the Essen European Council's adoption, in December 1994, of the pre-accession strategy for the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), the PHARE programme became the major financial instrument for the implementation of the strategy. 1995 therefore marked the start of a new phase in the programme's development. As a consequence of its new role, the management and monitoring structures of PHARE were reorganized. In order to implement longer-term planning in the relationships between the EU and the partner countries, in support of their eventual accession, the PHARE programme introduced new multi-annual indicative programmes to run until 1999. Four were prepared during 1995, with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Programmes for the other seven countries were prepared in the first half of 1996. On a financial level, the PHARE programme committed a total of ECU 1,154 million during 1995, involving five separate Community budget lines. The Annual Report gives an overview of PHARE support during the year, as well as giving a country by country breakdown.
Countries
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia