SAPARD Review in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Romania

IMPACT ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT The purpose of the project "Comparative Review of SAPARD Pre-Accession Assistance Impact on National Agriculture and Rural Development in 5 New EU Member States (Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary) and 2 future EU member states (Bulgaria, Romania)", financed by the Open Society Institute - Budapest, is to review the implementation of the Programme in seven Central and East European countries - the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. SAPARD Programme is a special pre-accession programme of the European Union in the field of agriculture and development of rural areas aiming at assisting the countries with a status of accession candidates to manage their problems related to the structural adjustment of their agricultural sectors and rural areas as well as the introduction of acquis communautaire in relation to the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP).