Regular report from the Commission on Bulgaria's progress towards accession 2004.
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Author
Commision of the European Communities
Date
2004-11-06View/ Open
Subject headings
External Enlargement ; EU Relations ; Human RightsAbstract
In Agenda 2000, the Commission said it would report regularly to the European Council on progress made by each of the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe with preparations for membership, and that it would submit its first Report at the end of 1998. The Luxembourg European Council in December 1997 decided that: “From the end of 1998, the Commission will make Regular Reports to the Council, together with any necessary recommendations for opening bilateral intergovernmental conferences, reviewing the progress of each Central and Eastern European applicant State towards accession in the light of the Copenhagen criteria, in particular the rate at which it is adopting the Union acquis [...] The Commission’s reports will serve as the basis for taking, in the Council context, the necessary decisions on the conduct of the accession negotiations or their extension to other applicants. In that context, the Commission will continue to follow the method adopted by Agenda 2000 in evaluating applicant States’ ability to meet the economic criteria and fulfil the obligations deriving from accession.” Consequently, the Commission has published a series of yearly Regular Reports on Bulgaria covering the years 1998 to 2003.
Number of pages
155p.Language
EnglishDescription
Sections are bookmarked. Related document: COM (2004) 657 final.URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/44548
SEC (2004) 1199 final