Brussels, 11/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The stricter new rules for the management of structural funds for 2000-2006 seems to have passed their first test: fewer structural funds were lost for 2002. 31 December 2002 marked the end of the "n+2" rule, under which all sums allocated to a programme and for which there was no reimbursement request after two years was considered lost for that programme. Almost all the expenditure planned for 2002 was subject to a payment or a payment request, a...