The committee notes that although some common threads such as visa facilitation and the encouragement of civil society and people-to-people contacts existed, the Eastern, potentially candidate countries and the Southern Mediterranean Neighbourhood countries, needed to be dealt with in quite different ways.
Politikas uzdevums — veidot īpašas, uz divpusējiem rīcības plāniem un nolīgumiem balstītas attiecības ar Austrumeiropas, Vidusjūras dienvidu reģiona un Dienvidkaukāza valstīm, kurām nav pievienošanās perspektīvas ES.