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The regional policy model implemented in Poland between 2000 and 2006 was a combined one linking elements of both equalisation and pro-efficiency policy. The instruments applied in the period preceding Poland’s accession to the European Union laid greater emphasis on leveling the disproportions in voivodship development and institutional preparation to absorb funds during the 2004–2006 period. Financing from the European Union, especially ZPORR programme funds, were, in terms of regions, aimed at the economically strongest ones, though the allocation between particular objectives was not conducive to augmenting competitiveness and innovativeness.