European Commission: Strategy Paper and Report 2003

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
  
  
• PROGRESS BY THE CANDIDATE COUNTRIES IN MEETING THE MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
  • Political Criteria
  • Economic Criteria
  • Other obligations of membership (including administrative capacity)
  • Overall conclusions and recommendations
  
  
• COMPLETING THE PROCESS
  • Concluding the negotiations
  • Finalising the Accession Treaty
  • Participation in the work of the Union before accession
  • Monitoring and safeguards
  • After enlargement
  
  
• 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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