Republic of Turkey pre-accession economic programme 2007

Abstract

Responding to the request of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN Council) dated 26/27 November 2000, Turkey has prepared the Pre-Accession Economic Programme (PEP) and has submitted to the European Commission since 2001. The 2007 PEP covering the 2008-2010 period is the seventh program that has been prepared under the coordination of the Undersecretariat of State Planning Organization1 with the contributions of relevant ministries and institutions. The 2007 PEP has been adopted by the decision of the High Planning Council2 No.2007/71. Furthermore, the 2007 PEP was prepared according to the new outline suggested by the European Commission General Directorate of Economic and Financial Affairs to the candidate countries. Thus, the 2007 PEP was given a similar structure to the Stability and Convergence Programmes prepared by member states