Template:Progress in future enlargement of the European Union
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| Countries | Candidates | Potential candidates | Reference states | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Event |
Turkey | Croatia | FYR Macedonia | Albania | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Serbia | Montenegro | Czech Republic |
Slovakia | Bulgaria | |||
| SAA1 negotiations start | 1959 (AA) | 2000 | 2000 | 2003 | 2005 | 2005 | 2006 | 1990 | 1990 | 1990 | |||
| SAA signature | 1963 (AA) 1995 (CU) |
2001 | 2001 | 2006 | (2007) | (2007) | 2007 | 1993 | 1993 | 1993 | |||
| SAA entry into force | 1996 (CU) | 2005 | 2004 | (2007) | (2007) | (2007) | (2007) | 1995 | 1995 | 1995 | |||
| Membership application submitted | 1987 | 2003 | 2004 | (2007) | (2007) | (2007) | (2007) | 1996 | 1995 | 1995 | |||
| Candidate status received | 1999 | 2004 | 2005 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | 1998 | 1999 | 1999 | |||
| Membership negotiations start | 2005 | 2005 | (2008) | (2009) | (2009) | (2009) | (2009) | 1998 | 2000 | 2000 | |||
| Membership negotiations end | (2012) | (2008/9) | (2011) | (2012) | (2012) | (2012) | (2012) | 2002 | 2002 | 2004 | |||
| EU joining date | (2015) | (2010) | (2012) | (2015) | (2015) | (2015) | (2015) | 2004 | 2004 | 2007 | |||
| Acquis chapter | |||||||||||||
| 1. Free Movement of Goods | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 2. Freedom of Movement for Workers | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 3. Right of Establishment & Freedom to provide Services | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 4. Free Movement of Capital | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 5. Public Procurement | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 6. Company Law | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 7. Intellectual Property Law | fs | o | - | ||||||||||
| 8. Competition Policy | o | o | - | ||||||||||
| 9. Financial Services | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 10. Information Society & Media | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 11. Agriculture & Rural Development | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 12. Food safety, Veterinary & Phytosanitary Policy | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 13. Fisheries | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 14. Transport Policy | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 15. Energy | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 16. Taxation | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 17. Economic & Monetary Policy | fs | o | - | ||||||||||
| 18. Statistics | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 19. Social Policy & Employment2 | fs | o | - | ||||||||||
| 20. Enterprise & Industrial Policy | o | o | - | ||||||||||
| 21. Trans-European Networks | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 22. Regional Policy & Coordination of Structural Instruments | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 23. Judiciary & Fundamental Rights | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 24. Justice, Freedom & Security | fs | o | - | ||||||||||
| 25. Science & Research | x | x | - | ||||||||||
| 26. Education & Culture | fs | x | - | ||||||||||
| 27. Environment | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 28. Consumer & Health Protection | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 29. Customs Union | f | o | - | ||||||||||
| 30. External Relations | f | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 31. Foreign, Security & Defence Policy | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 32. Financial Control | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 33. Financial & Budgetary Provisions | fs | fs | - | ||||||||||
| 34. Institutions | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| 35. Other Issues | - | - | - | ||||||||||
1 Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) for the Western Balkans states, Association Agreement and Customs Union for Turkey, Europe Agreement for the reference states.
2 Including anti-discrimination and equal opportunities for men and women.
| (brackets): expected date | situation of policy area at the start of membership negotiations, according to [1]. | |
|
s - screening of the chapter |
non-acquis chapter - nothing to adopt no major difficulties expected further efforts needed |
considerable efforts needed
very hard to adopt situation totally incompatible with EU acquis |
