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The programme ISPA (Instrument for Structural Politics for Pre-accession) is one of the three instruments of not repayable finance (together with PHARE and SAPARD) that supports the applicant countries in their preparation for adhering to the European Union.
The programme started off on January the 1st 2000 and it takes place in the following countries from Central and Eastern Europe: Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia.
Since 2004, only Romania and Bulgaria benefit from ISPA assistance.
The programme ISPA applies to all priorities concerning the environment and the infrastructure of transportation, identified within the programme of accession of the applicant countries to the European Union from Central and Eastern Europe. ISPA was initiated in the year 2000 in order to support an economical unity between the applicant countries and it represents an important financial support for Romania, with the view to rehabilitate and upgrade the environmental and transport infrastructure and it also stands for a fundamental instrument of achieving the accession and development criterion of some coherent politics converging with the community politics in those two fields, as a preliminary stage of integration into the structures and procedures of the European Union as far as these fields are concerned.
The purpose of ISPA is to offer financial support for investments in the field of environmental protection and transportation and to speed the process of implementation of the applicant countries legislation to the European standards in line with these two domains.

The Objectives of the Programme:
-    to support the beneficiary countries in order to reach the environmental standards of the European Union.
-    to extend and connect their own transportation network to those trans-european.
-    to implement the politics and procedures of the Structural Unity Funds of European Union to the beneficiary countries.
The promoted projects are in conjunction with the specific objectives assumed, according to the strategic documentation of Romania. (Accessing Partnership. National Programme of Adhering to the European Union, National Programme of Development), and they prioritize the following domains:

    ENVIRONMENT: The implementing of all environmental standards of the European Union to the applicant countries in the following fields:   
-    drinking water supplies
-    waste waters treatment
-    the management of solid and dangerous waste
-    air pollution

TRANSPORTATION: The extension of the transeuropean transportation network to the applicant countries:
-    the widening of national roads
-    the building of sideway roads in certain cities

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