The European Union Enlargement Package is a set of strategic documents that the European Commission publishes each year. It covers the progress made by candidate countries and potential candidate countries that aspire to become members of the European Union.
The Package includes a detailed assessments of the political, economic and legislative reforms required in order to meet the accession criteria, also known as the Copenhagen criteria: stability of democratic institutions, functioning market economy and the capacity to effectively implement EU legislation.
An important element of the Package is the Progress Report, which review each candidate country's situation, their achievements, challenges and further steps to be done, thus supporting governments to focus on necessary reforms, such as improving laws, economy and the fight against corruption.
2023 ENLARGEMENT PACKAGE EU - REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
In the 2023 Enlargement Package, the European Commission recommended the European Council to open accession negotiations with the Republic of Moldova. In addition, the Republic of Moldova has been included for the first time in the annual assessment of its readiness for EU membership.
Thus, the 2023 Enlargement Report for the Republic of Moldova presents the achievements registered on the basis of the 9 recommendations made by the European Commission and the measures to be completed by March 2024 in the areas of justice reform, fight against corruption and deoligarchisation, as well as the steps needed to take in order to meet the requirements for the political, economic and 33 chapters of EU law (EU acquis).
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2024 ENLARGEMENT PACKAGE EU - REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
In the 2024 Enlargement Package, published on October 30 by the European Commission, according to the Report, the Republic of Moldova has made significant progress over the last year, covering the period from 15 June 2023 to 1 September 2024.
According to the evaluation, the Republic of Moldova has made progress in 31 out of 33 negotiating chapters and there is no chapter on which it has regressed. Compared to the previous reporting period (2022 - 2023), the Commission found that most progress has been made in eight chapters – consumer and health protection (chapter 28), education (chapter 26), transport (chapter 14), environment (chapter 27), customs union (chapter 29), regional policy and coordination of structural instruments (chapter 22), intellectual property rights (chapter 7), statistics (chapter 18).
In just 12 months, from the perspective of preparation for the implementation of the EU acquis, improvements were observed in five chapters: energy (chapter 15), environment (chapter 27), education and culture (chapter 26), regional policy and coordination of structural instruments (chapter 22), and customs union (chapter 29).
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