The European Social Fund (ESF), the objective of which was to foment employment and workers' mobility in the Single Market, was the first instrument of the Community Struc-tural Policy together with the European Investment Bank. The FEOGA, European Agri-cultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund was also created in the early 70s to promote development of rural areas, but the inequalities in the degree of development among the different regions became manifest in the 70s with the economic crisis and the first expan-sion. Then, in 1975, the European Regional Development Fund or ERDF was created. Starting then, it was considered that the evident differences among the member States were not particular problems of each State, but rather a common problem that required global and solidary solutions through the articulation of a true Community Regional Policy. This fact was explicit in the 1988 reform of the Common Regional Policy, which ordered the community aid to member States in terms of functional criteria, identifying areas that required priority attention, and regional criteria and fomented co-ordination among the different funds. Finally, in 1993, the Cohesion Fund was created. It was designed specifically to propitiate the economic convergence of the most backward States by emphasising issues related to infrastructures and environment. The Spanish State began to perceive community aid after adhering to the then-called EEC in 1986. The BCAC wholeheartedly subscribed this community policy after the 1988 reform, which extended to Autonomous Communities the possibility of perceiving regional aid. In recent years, Gipuzkoa has accessed, through different projects, programmes and ini-tiatives, an important amount of community funds, which have been managed by differ-ent levels of the Administration, among which the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa has played a decisive role.