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The Balkans: CARDS 
  

Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation.


With the Council Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5 December 2000, the existing Community assistance (Phare, Obnova) was expanded and redirected to adjust it to the European Union’s political objectives for the Balkans. The new programme CARDS (2000-2006) replaces Phare and Obnova.


CARDS’ wider objective is to support the participation of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia in the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAp).


Stabilisation and Association process is the cornerstone of the EU’s policy in the region. It seeks to promote stability within the region whilst also facilitating closer association with the EU. Through the SAp, the EU has created a framework in which a new contractual relationship, the Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) and the CARDS programme help each country to progress at its own pace on the way towards becoming potential candidates for EU membership.


To download the Council Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5 December 2000 on assistance for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, click http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/see/docs/index.htm#cards.

 

CARDS ANNUAL PROGRAMMES: WHO IS DOING WHAT?


For each of the Balkan countries, as well as the region as a whole, a Country Strategy Paper (CSP) provides a strategic framework in which EC assistance will be provided in the period 2000-2006. The Country Strategy Papers, (prepared by the European Commission Directorate-General for External Relations), sets out EU co-operation objectives, policy response and priority fields of co-operation based on a thorough assessment of the partner country’s policy agenda and political and economical situation. The multi-annual indicative programme (MIP) attached to the strategy sets out the EU response in more detail, highlighting programme objectives, expected results and conditionality in the priority fields of co-operation for the period 2002-2004. Based on the MIP, the EUROPEAID CO-OPERATION OFFICE Headquarters and Delegations prepare an Annual Programme for each country.


 

Annual Programmes 2001


Albania 

Support programme 
Support programme in the sector of Taxation 

Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Support programme 
Initial Support programme 
Additional Support programme 

Croatia 

Support programme 
Initial Support programme 

FYROM 

Support programme 
Additional Support programme 
Additional Support programme for the Reform of the Police 

Kosovo 

A housing, institutional, water/waste, and health support programme 
Montenegro 

Support programme 
Additional Support programme 

Serbia 

Initial Support programme 
Additional Support programme 


Regional 

Cards Regional programme 

 

Annual Programmes 2002


Albania 

Annual Programme      

Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Financing Proposal               

Croatia 

Annual Programme      

FYROM 

Annual Programme      

Kosovo 

Annual Programme               

Montenegro 

Annual Programme               

Serbia 

Annual Programme               

Regional 

Annual Programme               


 
 

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