The Community Support Frameworks (CSF) are documents approved by the Commission following appraisal of the plans presented by the interested member state. The CSFs contain descriptions of the strategy and priorities of the action, its specific objectives, the participation of the Funds and other financial resources. These documents are divided into priorities and are implemented by means of one or more operational programmes (OP).

All CSFs include:

• The strategy to be followed and the priorities defined by the Community and the member state; its specific objectives, an evaluation of expected effects; an indication of the aspects of economic and regional policies taken into consideration.
  

• A summary of the nature and length of the operational programmes.

• An indicative finance plan in which the amount of planned financing for each priority is specified, along with the planned yearly financial contribution of each Fund and other financial instruments.
  

• The provisions for the implementation of the CSF, including designation of a management authority and provisions regarding the participation of parties concerned in the Monitoring Committees.
  

• Information regarding credits needed for the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of the interventions

• Prior checks regarding availability of additional, clear and appropriate information on financial transactions.

The single programming document or SPD is a single document approved by the Commission, which encompasses the elements contained in a community support framework and in an operational programme.

In Spain there is a CSF for the regions included in Objective 1 and another CSF for Objective 3. Objective 2 is defined through 7 Single Programming Documents, one for each region outside Objective 1.

The UAFSE has elaborated a study over the More Relevant Aspects of The Community Support Frameworks , which constitutes a summary of its contents