Republic of Turkey pre-accession economic programme 2004

Abstract

The candidate countries submit their Pre-Accession Economic Programmes (PEP) to the European Commission as a part of the requirements emanating from the Pre-Accession Fiscal Surveillance Procedure, every year regularly. Turkey prepared its first PEP in October 2001. The PEP 2004 covers the recent economic developments as well as projections and forecasts for the period of 2005-20071. The PEP 2004 presents the implemented economic policies and the process of structural transformation in terms of Copenhagen economic criteria and EU membership perspective