Press Release: ‘Community Agencies: Parters in Accession’: Candidate and potential candidate countries to the EU meet Community agencies in Portugal

A conference, ‘Community agencies: partners in accession’, held in Sintra, near Lisbon, on 25-27 November 2009, was hosted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), at the initiative of the European Commission. The event was financed by the Commission’s Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) programme, through which candidate and potential candidate countries to the EU receive funding to prepare for membership. The conference focused on cooperation between the Community agencies and the IPA beneficiary countries in the context of EU enlargement and the long-term construction of the Union.

Please see also News Release no.11 of 27 November 2009, (Role of Community agencies in EU enlargement process reinforced) via the Source Url.

EMCDDA: News Release: No.10, 2009 (20.11.09) http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_94292_EN_IPAConferenceENFinal.pdf

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