Ces deux programmes anticipent donc sur la "nouvelle frontiere" etablie par l'Acte Unique europeen, a savoir la realisation d'un objectif ambitieux -l'objectif numero deux du paquet de mesures proposees par Jacques Delors et sur lequel le Conseil europeen de Bruxelles a pris des engagements precis (Com(87) 100) - qui, outre le rattrapage des regions en retard structurel, vise aussi la reconversion des regions industrielles en declin.
Consequently, these two programmes pave the way to the "new frontier" mapped out in the Single European Act -in other words, to attainment of the ambitious objective of enabling regions lagging behind in their structural development to catch up and of converting regions hit by industrial decline (objective 2 in the package proposed by Jacques Delors and to which the European Council meeting in Brussels made specific commitments (COM(87)100)).