Zur Bewertung des ungarischen SAPARD-Programms unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Investitionen im Milchsektor

The national SAPARD programs pursue two objectives. First, they contribute to the develop-ment of competitive structures in the agricultural and food sectors in the accession countries by subsidizing investments into developable enterprises. Beyond that, the programs are in-tended to foster the development of EU compatible administrative structures in the accession countries so that the countries are capable of implementing and enforcing EU agricultural policy. In this paper Hungary is taken as an example and it is argued that SAPARD meets these requirements insufficiently. The significance of SAPARD for the development of efficient administrative structures fol-lows from the conception of the program. SAPARD was constructed to correspond to EU policy for the development of rural areas. Consequently, SAPARD is more adapted to the institutional framework of the EU 15 than to the special requirements of the accession coun-tries. A special problem results from the fact that, in accession country.