The Commission hoped to achieve more efficiency by combining the two areas but Parliament, while in favour of pooling administrative resources, decided that the two areas, which come under different legal bases (Articles 152 and 153 of the EC Treaty) in which the EU has different powers, should be split into two separate programmes.
Pārstrukturēšana var izpausties kā pāreja uz ārpakalpojumu izmantošanu, uzņēmumu pārvietošana, filiāļu slēgšana, nodarbināto skaita samazināšana, apvienošana.