defined in the National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis - NPAA or to the guidelines defined for the country in question in Agenda 2000. The application should include a detailed description of the parts of the acquis communautaire addressed, its links with other European programmes and the other grants applied for in its support. The aim of TIB is to prepare the participants of the training for active involvement in the integration process, as well as for effective work and co-operation within the EU. Out of the four Phare IB sectors defined by the European Commission for all Phare countries the most TIB JEP applications with Hungarian participation were formed in the field of Environment (8), probably because this field concerns a wide range of HEIs of different study profiles. There was an even distribution of the applications in the three other sectors: six in the field of Agriculture, five both in the field of Finance and in that of Justice and Home Affairs (Cf. Table 3). There was no project submitted in the field of Internal Market, which is the fifth, country-specific Phare IB sector defined for Hungary. From the 35 applications 11 cannot be directly linked with the key sectors supported by Phare but even these set in general the objective of training administrators at national or local level, as well as civil servants and professionals who are directly involved in the approximation of legislation between Hungary and the EU.
Distribution of the Applications According to Phare IB Sectors
Other Areas 32%
Finance 14%
Justice and Home Affairs 14%
Environment 23%
Agriculture 17%
Table 3 - expresses the distribution of applications according to Phare IB sectors as a percentage. The diagram demonstrates that a relatively high proportion has no direct links with the Phare IB sectors.
From the applications submitted in the four key Phare sectors 18 can be linked directly to running Phare IB projects in Hungary, 4 applications respond to the IB needs identified by the Commission and 4 contribute to achieving the objectives defined in the National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis - NPAA. The activities planned in the frame of almost each project contribute to the implementation of the pre-accession strategy in Hungary and are strongly related to the guidelines of Agenda 2000 respectively.
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