Businesses likely to suffer ministry's "innovative" distribution of key EU fund

Unlike PHARE funds, this means that the central institutions will analyze the thousands of motions and grant the subsidies. "This is not a good system. In the next period [2007-2013] we will have to decentralize it," admits Danuta Jabłońska, the director of the ministry's department managing the program. She went on to explain that the centralized system was chosen to enable innovation solutions to be promoted. It is estimated that, including companies' obligatory contributions, the capital influx into the economy from this fund may exceed EUR 2.8 billion. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 19) M.K.