Parallelt med indsatsen for at fokusere politikken bedre vedtog Kommisionen i 2000 en forvaltningsreformpakke for at forbedre bistandsprogrammernes hurtighed og kvalitet drastisk.
Alongside the emphasis on a better policy focus, the Commission launched in 2000 a management reform package to improve radically the speed and quality of the delivery of its external assistance programmes.