The Commission began the screening exercise on 3 April 1998 following the decision of EU member states on enlargement at the Luxembourg European Council. Leaving aside the challenge of adopting Community
law, all candidate countries face problems in setting up and strengthening the structures required to implement it effectively and efficiently. To support this as part of the pre-accession strategy, EU financial assistance is being geared more to institution-building -- notably via twinning arrangements between Member States' administrations and officials those of the public administrations of the applicant countries -- and co-financing
...[+++]the investment needed to apply Community law, in line with the priorities and conditions set by the Accession Partnerships.
C'est pourquoi, dans le cadre de la stratégie de pré-adhésion, l'assistance financière de la Communauté se concentre dorénavant sur l'Institution Building - notamment par des jumelages entre administrations et fonctionnaires des Etats membres et des pays candidats - et sur le cofinancement des investissements nécessaires à la reprise de l'acquis, selon les priorités et conditions fixées par les Partenariats pour l'Adhésion.