ABSTRACT
The analysis does, however, provide insights into how administrative capacity for Cohe-
sion policy was established and evolved. The EU8 were largely able to put in place the
requisite organizational structures and human resources, procedures and tools but it some-
times took until 2006 for the capacity to be fully available. A grading of each of the
capacity indicators (see Table 8) shows that for every indicator, each country had put in
place at least a basic level of capacity and in many cases it was rated as “developing”,
albeit with variation between countries.
