ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the fourth stage of the policy cycle: implementation, or in other words, the actual putting it into effect. Decades of practice have shown that effective delivery is very complicated; on one hand, due to the multitude of objectives (cohesion and balanced growth) and, on the other, due to the multi-level administrative framework of the EU. In the previous chapters we have described how the EU has tried to cope with some of these problems by reinforcing its toolkit considerably.
