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Drawing on earlier works on Europeanization, this report sketches a theoretical basis for assessing domestic adaptation to EU policy. It suggests that EU policy may target one or all of the four structures underpinning domestic organizational fields: regulative, normative, cognitive and material. Moreover, the author argues, EU policy may spur effects at four levels: intra-organizational, inter-organizational, intrafield and/or inter-field. According to her, both weak and strong EU policies may work as catalysts for change, but only strong policies are likely to cause change in their own right.