Community Acquis - Chapters

Chapters

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement (the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007). These chapters were:

  1. Free movement of goods
  2. Free movement of persons
  3. Freedom to provide services
  4. Free movement of capital
  5. Company law
  6. Competition policy
  7. Agriculture
  8. Fisheries
  9. Transport policy
  10. Taxation
  11. Economic and Monetary Union
  12. Statistics
  13. Social policy and employment
  14. Energy
  15. Industrial policy
  16. Small and medium-sized enterprises
  1. Science and research
  2. Education and training
  3. Telecommunication and information technologies
  4. Culture and audio-visual policy
  5. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
  6. Environment
  7. Consumers and health protection
  8. Cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs
  9. Customs union
  10. External relations
  11. Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
  12. Financial control
  13. Financial and budgetary provisions
  14. Institutions
  15. Others

For the negotiations with Croatia (acceding country), Iceland, Turkey, Montenegro and in the future, with Macedonia, Serbia (candidate countries), the acquis was/will be split up into 35 chapters instead, with the purpose of better balancing between the chapters: dividing the most difficult ones into separate chapters for easier negotiation, uniting some easier chapters, moving some policies between chapters, as well as renaming a few of them in the process:

  1. Free movement of goods
  2. Freedom of movement for workers
  3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
  4. Free movement of capital
  5. Public procurement
  6. Company law
  7. Intellectual property law
  8. Competition policy
  9. Financial services
  10. Information society and media
  11. Agriculture and rural development
  12. Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy
  13. Fisheries
  14. Transport policy
  15. Energy
  16. Taxation
  17. Economic and monetary policy
  18. Statistics
  1. Social policy and employment
  2. Enterprise and industrial policy
  3. Trans-European networks
  4. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
  5. Judiciary and fundamental rights
  6. Justice, freedom and security
  7. Science and research
  8. Education and culture
  9. Environment
  10. Consumer and health protection
  11. Customs union
  12. External relations
  13. Foreign, security and defence policy
  14. Financial control
  15. Financial and budgetary provisions
  16. Institutions
  17. Other issues

Correspondence between chapters of the 5th and the 6th Enlargement:

5th Enlargement 6th Enlargement
1. Free movement of goods 1. Free movement of goods
7. Intellectual property law
2. Free movement of persons 2. Freedom of movement for workers
3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
3. Freedom to provide services 3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
9. Financial services
4. Free movement of capital 4. Free movement of capital
5. Company law 6. Company law
6. Competition policy 8. Competition policy
5. Public procurement
7. Agriculture 11. Agriculture and rural development
12. Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy
8. Fisheries 13. Fisheries
9. Transport policy 14. Transport policy
21. Trans-European networks (one half of it)
10. Taxation 16. Taxation
11. Economic and Monetary Union 17. Economic and monetary policy
12. Statistics 18. Statistics
13. Social policy and employment 19. Social policy and employment
14. Energy 15. Energy
21. Trans-European networks (one half of it)
15. Industrial policy 20. Enterprise and industrial policy
16. Small and medium-sized enterprises
17. Science and research 25. Science and research
18. Education and training 26. Education and culture
10. Information society and media
19. Telecommunication and information technologies
20. Culture and audio-visual policy
21. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments 22. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
22. Environment 27. Environment
23. Consumer and health protection 28. Consumer and health protection
24. Cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs 23. Judiciary and fundamental rights
24. Justice, freedom and security
25. Customs union 29. Customs union
26. External relations 30. External relations
27. Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) 31. Foreign, security and defence policy
28. Financial control 32. Financial control
29. Financial and budgetary provisions 33. Financial and budgetary provisions
30. Institutions 34. Institutions
31. Others 35. Other issues

Such negotiations usually involved agreeing transitional periods before new member states needed to implement the laws of the European Union fully and before they and their citizens acquired full rights under the acquis.

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