European Commission: Strategy Paper and Report 2003

TOWARDS THE ENLARGED UNION
Strategy Paper and Report of the European Commission on the progress towards accession by each of the candidate countries

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Date: Brussels , 9.10.2002 COM(2002) 700 final

• Contents
• List of Tables
• THE OVERALL CONTEXT
  • Europe on the eve of enlargement
  • Public opinion and the enlargement process
  • Administrative preparations for enlargement
  • The Copenhagen Criteria
  • Reinforcing administrative and judicial capacity
  • The accession negotiations
    • State of play
    • Commitments
    • Transitional arrangements
  
  
• PROGRESS BY THE CANDIDATE COUNTRIES IN MEETING THE MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
  • Political Criteria
    • Overall development
    • Conclusions
  • Economic Criteria
    • Overall development
    • Conclusions
  • Other obligations of membership (including administrative capacity)
    • Overall development
    • Conclusions
  • Overall conclusions and recommendations
  
  
• COMPLETING THE PROCESS
  • Concluding the negotiations
    • The financial framework
    • How to deal with new acquis and the revisiting of chapters
    • The chapter on ``Other matters''
  • Finalising the Accession Treaty
  • Participation in the work of the Union before accession
  • Monitoring and safeguards
  • After enlargement
    • Institution building
    • EMU and the Euro
    • Schengen
    • The European Economic Area
  
  
• A REVISED ACCESSION STRATEGY FOR BULGARIA AND ROMANIA
  • Progress to-date
  • Indicative date
  • Accession roadmaps
  • Pre-accession assistance
  
  
• A NEW IMPETUS TO THE ENLARGEMENT PROCESS WITH TURKEY
  • Strengthening the Pre-Accession Strategy
  • Additional financial support
  
  
• CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• ANNEX 1: CONCLUSIONS OF THE REGULAR REPORTS
  • Bulgaria
  • Cyprus
  • The Czech Republic
  • Estonia
  • Hungary
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Malta
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Turkey
  
  
• ANNEX 2: THE CHAPTER ``OTHER MATTERS''
• ANNEX 3: Human Rights Conventions
• ANNEX 4: Twinning projects
• ANNEX 5: Peer reviews
• ANNEX 6: State of play of negotiations
• ANNEX 7: Main statistical indicators
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