In line with the conclusions of the Berlin European Council, the Community mo
re than doubled its pre-accession assistance to the candidate countries of Central and Easte
rn Europe since the year 2000: as proposed by the European Commission in Agenda
2000, EUR 3,174 million (2001 figures) were made available annually between
2000 and 2006 through the PHARE Programme and the two other pre-accession instruments, ISPA and SAPARD, which were introduced in
2000 ...[+++].