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This paper aimed at the presentation of connections between regional policy and agricultural policy in the European Union as well as indication of the necessity to integrate both these policies in Poland. Implementation of common agricultural policy intensified regional disproportions, what was not intended result and factor of regional policy development. Initially the common regional policy aimed at the coordination of regional policies of member countries. Later on it became of more common character and the intention of that policy was to overcome its weak points and to strengthen the chances for developing of underprivileged regions. An activation of regional policy took place in the middle of the eighties, what created new model of a beyond the nation regional policy. Introduction of unified European Market as well as the acceptation of the Treaty on European Union,were important factors reinforcing the role of this policy. The shape of regional policy and its connections with common agricultural policy and the policy of rural development - for the countries making application for the EU membership - were determined by the Agenda 2000. That document delimits the essential form and the financial frames of European integration directed towards the extension to Central-East Europe.