The Europe Agreement includes provisions concerning trade in fisheries products with the Union. The White Paper includes no measures in this field. The balance of trade between the European Union and Hungary is EUR 612 million in favour of Hungary. In 2000, from an agricultural budget of a total of EUR 645 million, EUR 553 million was reserved for agricultural grants and 92 million for rural development. The Sapard programme approved by the European Commission focuses mainly on investments into farms and improvements to the processing and marketing of agricultural products.
Efforts are necessary regarding data bases and networks, and the registration of livestock.
Since 1999, the establishment of common market organisations has not made much progress. Only the fruit, vegetable, milk and beef sectors have seen some improvement. The wine sector has still not taken on the measures. The roles of the intervention centres and intervention measures in the markets need to be defined. Marketing standards for export to the European Community need to be extended to national and imported products.