Par ce terme, la Commission entend désigner la promotion des mécanismes de financement qui non seulement soient aptes à fournir aux entreprises européennes les produits et les services financiers dont elles ont besoins pour naître, se développer et coopérer, mais qui soient également capables de faciliter la réalisation de projets de dimension européenne - réalisation dont l'élargissement a accru l'urgence.
Deployment of those instruments involved "financial engineering", by which the Commission meant the promotion of financing mechanisms that not only were apt to provide firms in the Community with the financial products and services essential to their establishment, development and mutual cooperation but were also capable of facilitating the implementation of projects on a Community-wide scale, this having become a more pressing need as a result of enlargement.