L'audit a permis d'établir que, bien que la Commission ait commencé sans tarder à utiliser le programme Phare pour aider à la préparation des pays candidats à la gestion des Fonds structurels, ce programme a eu, au moment de l'adhésion, une incidence plus limitée que la Commission ne l'avait prévu dans ses documents de base.
The audit concluded that although the Commission started early to use the Phare programme to help prepare Candidate Countries for managing the Structural Funds, at the time of accession this programme had had a more limited impact than had been planned in the Commission's policy documents.