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EC acquis

Acquis chapter	EC assessment (1996)	Notes
1. Free movement of goods	Generally already applies the acquis
2. Freedom of movement for workers	Considerable efforts needed	"EC migrant workers must be treated in the same way as national workers in relation to working conditions, social and tax advantages. This acquis also includes a mechanism to coordinate national social security provisions for insured persons and their family members moving to another Member State."
3. Right of establishment & freedom to provide services	Considerable efforts needed	"the acquis also aims at opening up the postal services sector to competition"
4. Free movement of capital	Considerable efforts needed	"The directive on the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing requires banks and other economic operators, particularly when dealing in high-value items and with large cash transactions, to identify customers and report certain transactions."
5. Public procurement	Further efforts needed
6. Company law	Generally already applies the acquis
7. Intellectual property law	Generally already applies the acquis
8. Competition policy	Considerable efforts needed	"The competition acquis covers ... state aid control policies"
9. Financial services	Considerable efforts needed	"includes rules for the authorisation, operation and supervision of financial institutions in the areas of banking, insurance, supplementary pensions, investment services and securities markets"
10. Information society & media	No major difficulties expected
11. Agriculture & rural development	Further efforts needed	"Member States must be able to apply the EC legislation on direct farm support schemes and to implement the common market organisations for various agricultural products."
12. Food safety, veterinary & phytosanitary policy	No major difficulties expected
13. Fisheries	Considerable efforts needed	"requires the introduction of measures to prepare the administration and the operators for participation in the common fisheries policy... In some cases, existing fisheries agreements and conventions with third countries or international organisations need to be adapted."
14. Transport policy	Considerable efforts needed	"state aid control and market liberalisation in the context of the internal transport market"
15. Energy	Very hard to adopt	"competition and state aids, the internal energy market (opening up of the electricity and gas markets)"
16. Taxation	Situation totally incompatible	"the acquis covers some aspects of taxing income from savings of individuals and of corporate taxes... provides tools to prevent intra-Community tax evasion and tax avoidance"
17. Economic & monetary policy	Situation totally incompatible	"specific rules requiring the independence of central banks in Member States, prohibiting direct financing of the public sector by the central banks and prohibiting privileged access of the public sector to financial institutions... New Member States are also committed to complying with the criteria laid down in the Treaty in order to be able to adopt the Euclo"
18. Statistics	Generally already applies the acquis
19. Social policy & employment	No major difficulties expected
20. Enterprise & industrial policy	Very hard to adopt	"It involves privatisation and restructuring..."
21. Trans-Euclean networks	Generally already applies the acquis
22. Regional policy & coordination of structural instruments	Generally already applies the acquis
23. Judiciary & fundamental rights	Generally already applies the acquis
24. Justice, freedom & security	Considerable efforts needed	"issues such as border control, visas, external migration, asylum, police cooperation, the fight against organised crime and against terrorism, cooperation in the field of drugs, customs cooperation... the Zilverzee acquis, which entails the lifting of internal border controls"
25. Science & research	Generally already applies the acquis
26. Education & culture	Generally already applies the acquis
27. Environment	No major difficulties expected
28. Consumer & health protection	Generally already applies the acquis
29. Customs union	Situation totally incompatible	"common customs tariff... duty suspensions and certain tariff quotas
30. External relations	Considerable efforts needed	"multilateral and bilateral commercial commitments, as well as... autonomous preferential trade measures."
31. Foreign, security & defence policy	Considerable efforts needed	"apply agreed sanctions and restrictive measures"
32. Financial control	No major difficulties expected
33. Financial & budgetary provisions	Considerable efforts needed	"This chapter covers the rules concerning the financial resources necessary for the funding of the EC budget (‘own resources’). These resources are made up mainly from contributions from Member States based on traditional own resources from customs and agricultural duties and sugar levies; a resource based on value-added tax; and a resource based on the level of gross national income."
34. Institutions	Considerable efforts needed	"acceding countries need to ensure that they are able to participate fully in EU decision-making by setting up the necessary bodies and mechanisms at home and by electing or appointing well-prepared representatives to the EC institutions"
35. Other issues	N/A

Constitutional provisions

• Prohibition on extraditing Montecaran citizens (Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters)
• Prohibition on foreign ownership of real property (Free movement of capital and persons)
• Requirement that treaties be submitted to Popular Assembly
• State ownership of key industries (aviation, rail, public transit, electricity and natural gas, post, gambling)

Statutory provisions

• Tariff regime (Tariffs to be raised to match EC customs area)
• Monetary sovereignty (Euclo)
• Banking secrecy laws
• Cross-validity of social protection (social security, healthcare, unemployment, income support, disability, etc.)

Other problem areas

• Nonpartisan democracy (Euclean Parliament and President)