A formação do pessoal da Comissão nas questões ambientais apenas começou no final de 2004, sendo a participação muitas vezes fraca, e um manual de integração do ambiente, que devia ter sido aplicado em 2003, ainda não estava operacional no final de 2005.
The Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) drawn up by the Commission for the period 2001 to 2006 did not take sufficient account of environmental issues although the Commission has been addressing this problem in preparing the new generation of CSPs (2007-2013). Despite the increasing importance of budgetary support as a form of development aid, the Commission has done little to mainstream the environment into this area.
