The overall objective of this ex post evaluation is to provide accountability with respect to the use of European Commission funds, and lessons learned for decision making on improvements to the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Finance Facility (the Facility) for remaining and future candidate...

The purpose of this ex post evaluation is to review the 1999-2001 Phare support to the Technical Assistance Information Exchange Office (TAIEX) as well as Phare allocations in the period 2002-2005. The overall objective of this evaluation is to provide accountability with respect to the use of...

The purpose of this ex post evaluation is to assess the contribution of the 1999-2001 (“earlier period”) Phare national and cross-border co-operation programmes to support Romania in meeting the Copenhagen criteria in order to facilitate its accession to the European Union. A review of...

The purpose of this ex post evaluation is to assess the contribution of the 1999-2001 Phare National and Cross-Border Co-operation programmes to support Slovenia in meeting the Copenhagen criteria in order to facilitate its accession to the European Union. The overall objective of this...

The purpose of this ex post evaluation is to assess the contribution of the 1999-2001 Phare National and Cross-Border Co-operation programmes to support Slovakia in meeting the Copenhagen criteria in order to facilitate its accession to the European Union. The overall objective of this...

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...

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...

This ex post evaluation focuses on the assessment of the Phare Programme support allocated by the European Community to ten central and eastern European candidate countries. The evaluation covers the country support allocated in the years 1997–1998 and implemented until the end of 2001. The...

Phare support to SME development has mainly consisted of technical assistance and advisory services to national institutions, support to SME policy and legislative development and financial support for SME development. Progress has been made in tackling problems inherited from the past, as well...

The Thematic Report on Phare Cross-Border Cooperation has two overall objectives: a) to consider the extent to which Phare CBC has contributed to the development of capacity in the new Member States to engage effectively in INTERREG on accession and; b) to identify lessons learned that can inform...