10/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission this spring and summer concluded agreements with 13 candidate and acceding countries, on their involvement in the "Fiscalis 2003-2007" programme. This programme aims to contribute to fighting tax fraud, via the exchange of information between administrations, training seminars, and job-exchanges between civil servants. The current Community contribution to the programme is 44 million EUR, but this is to increase after enlargement. The text of the agreements are on the Commission's website at europa.eu.int/commission/ nlargement/pas/ocp/index.htm