EU Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP)

The EC CADAP Programme is a sister Programme to two other EC initiatives: the BUMAD Programme covering Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova; the SCAD Programme covering Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

All Programmes share a common overall objective, to foster a regional development-oriented drug control strategy that ensures a sustained reduction of drug consumption and trafficking in line with European Union drug best practices. These best practices can be summarised as follows:

To base drug policy on science and research not ideology
To base supply policies on intelligence/risk analysis
To encourage regional cooperation among law enforcement bodies
To adopt model legislative/regulation framework as a prerequisite for drug action
To base all drug policies on respect for human rights
To prevent drug abuse but not to criminalize drug addicts
To develop harm reduction measures for long-term addicts
To balance the response between drug supply and demand

For these reasons, the CADAP strategy is:

Regional in nature in order to develop cooperation
Long-term and institution-building in approach
Concerned with establishing good practice through demonstration projects

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