This report’s key objective is to deduce from the experiences of recent and present Phare-supported candidates, with particular reference to Bulgaria and Romania, recommendations for the way in which a candidate country should best be supported (i) to enable its public administration to adopt,...

This report’s key objectives are to evaluate the contribution which the Phare programme has made to the legal alignment, implementation and enforcement of the Justice & Home Affairs acquis in the New Member States and in the two remaining Phare beneficiary candidate countries, Bulgaria and...

This report’s key objectives are to evaluate the contribution which the Phare programme has made to the transposition, implementation and enforcement of ‘horizontal’ Public Administrative and Judicial Capacity (PAJC) development in Bulgaria and Romania, and to identify lessons learned,...

The objective of this Report is to review the relevance and effectiveness of the Twinning Instrument relative to its fundamental objectives, with regard to different Accession Partnership areas, types of Institution Building activities and countries, with a view to high-lighting best practice...

This Thematic Report on Candidate Country Participation in the Community Programmes was prepared by the EMS Consortium1 at the request of the Evaluation Unit (E3) of DG Enlargement. Phare support to the Community Programmes has not been the subject of specific Interim Evaluations of the Phare...

This Phare Agriculture Sector Review is an overview of the implementation of Phare Agriculture Programmes in ten Candidate Countries, highlighting key success, effectiveness and impact of the instrument in supporting the agriculture related accession process. It is based on the Interim...

The aim of the review is to summarise the achievements of Phare Roma programmes in the five countries where integration of Roma minorities was specified as an Accession Partnership priority (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia) and to consider to what extent they have...

The objective of this review is to assess the performance of Phare support in assisting the candidate countries to achieve the objectives of the pre-accession strategy. It covers the support allocated in the years 1999-2002 and implemented up to November 2003. The report makes recommendations...