03/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - At the end of December2004, the Council adopted a regulation turning the EU's technical and financial aid for Croatia into 'pre-accession' aid. As a candidate country whose accession negotiations are scheduled to start on 17 March 2005, Croatia is now eligible for funding under the three pre-accession funds, namely Phare (for institution and administrative capacity building), ISPA (for transport infrastructure and the environment) and SAPARD (agriculture and...