On 23 June 2004, in a meeting chaired by Anne Anderson, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union, Jacques Barrot, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Stavros Dimas, European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Franz Fischler, European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Péter Bálazs, Shadow European Commissioner to Jacques Barrot, and Sandra Kalniete, Shadow European Commissioner to Franz Fischler, endorse development programmes implemented in support of the 10 new Member States of the European Union under ‘The Structural Funds 2004–2006’ together with the Permanent Representatives of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.