The experience gained with the pre-accession instrument for agriculture and rural development (SAPARD) showed that difficulties in connection with the establishment of administrative and monitoring procedures, co-financing and the disbursement of appropriations can give rise to serious problems, with the result that the original objectives - preparing agriculture and the rural economy in general for accession - were achieved only to an unsatisfactory degree and, above all, very late.
The experience gained with the pre-accession instrument for agriculture and rural development (SAPARD) showed that difficulties in connection with the establishment of administrative and monitoring procedures, co-financing and the disbursement of appropriations can give rise to serious problems, with the result that the original objectives - preparing agriculture and the rural economy in general for accession - were achieved only to an unsatisfactory degree and, above all, very late.