Spain has established a presence in Central and Eastern Europe through its work on various sectors, mainly:

• Interior, through training programmes for police forces on border control, migration and asylum, efforts to fight organised crime and drugs, seminars on DNA testing, participation in EUPM (European Union Police Mission) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EUPOL PROXIMA in Macedonia, among others, in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior through the Director General of the National Police Corps and the Civil Guard.

• Economy and Finance, by supporting the management of structural funds, insurance supervision and data protection through the Ministry and the various Public Institutions related to the sector, and by strengthening the creation of small businesses in Serbia through assistance and training.

• Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, through such programmes as those dedicated to the application of the Common Agrarian Policy (CAP) and to fishing, in collaboration with the General Secretariat for Maritime Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture as well as the various Autonomous Community Councils.

• Labour and Social Affairs, through the Ministry of Labour and competent departments of Autonomous Communities, helping coordinate Social Security systems, strengthening the capacity to apply the Community acquis to such areas as health, job security and gender equality, among other programmes.

• Justice, by cooperating in the fight against corruption, money-laundering, the reform of the criminal process, the creation of schools of law and criminology, etc., in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, the General Council of the Judiciary and the Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office. Of note in this area has also been a series of bilaterally financed Justice Weeks in Bulgaria that resulted in the development of four Twinning Programmes in this candidate country and in the production and broadcasting by Bulgarian TV of a 12-part documentary series on Spanish Justice and peace maintenance by EUFOR (European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina), which will soon begin operations through SFOR (Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina).