A new paper has been added to EPRC's European Policy Research Paper series, reviewing and analysing the process of designating regional aid maps for 2000-06. The paper looks in particular at the adaptational pressures placed on Member States under the 1998 regional aid guidelines and considers the extent to which these can be measured and the degree to which policy in this field can be said to have been Europeanised. The authors are Carlos Mendez, Fiona Wishlade and Douglas Yuill.