The third benchmark would be a commitment to sustaining the levels of assistance in a proportion that will not lead to a wider gap between candidate countries, such as Bulgaria and Romania, and the countries of the Western Balkans.
Treći cilj bio bi održavanje obima pomoći u srazmeri koja ne bi dovela do prosirivanja jaza između zemalja kandidata, poput Bugarske i Rumunije i zemalja Zapadnog Balkana.