Ministry for EU Affairs

CURRENT SITUATION IN ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS

Last Updated on 21 December 2009

Opened and Provisionally Closed:
   25) Science and Research

Opened:
   4) Free Movement of Capital
   6) Company Law
   7) Intellectual Property Law
   10) Information Society and Media
   16) Taxation
   18) Statistics
   20) Enterprise and Industrial Policy
   21) Trans-European Networks
   27) Environment
   28) Consumer and Health Protection
   32) Financial Control     

12) Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Policy

To be Opened:
   17) Economic and Monteray Policy
   26) Education and Culture

Screening Reports Approved at the Council of the European Union with Benchmarks:
   1) Free Movement of Goods 
   3) Right of Establisment and Freedom to Provide Services
   5) Public Procurement
   8) Competition Policy
   9) Financial Services
   11) Agriculture and Rural Development
   19) Social Policy and Employment
   29) Customs Union

Draft Screening Reports are to be Approved at the Council of the European Union:
   2) Freedom of Movement of Workers
   13) Fisheries
   14) Transport Policy
   15) Energy
   22) Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Instruments
   23) Judiciary and Fundemental Rights
   24) Justice, Freedom and Security
   30) External Relations
   33) Financial and Budgetary Provisions

Screening Reports have not been dreafted yet:
   31) Foreign, Security and Defence Policy