[PDF] Top 20 Regular report from the Commission on Estonia's progress towards accession 2002. SEC (2002) 1402 final, 9 October 2002

... further progress has been made. Estonia needs to continue alignment, in particular in the areas of waste, nature, chemicals, air protection and radiation; to invest in infrastructure including waste and ... See full document

... January 2002 and have already greatly contributed to: ensurin effective implementation of the new strategy for combating organised crime; establishing a framework for co- operation between different law ... See full document

... The slow process of ownership transformation has not facilitated a rapid development of other financial institutions that could compete with banks and deepen financial intermediation. The life insurance market is small, ... See full document

... A major banking crisis erupted in 2000-2001. During 2000, increasing tensions in the financial markets revealed major systemic weaknesses. Profitability declined as a result of the December 1999 programme's success in ... See full document

... some progress has been made, there remains scope for a more growth- enhancing use of Slovakia’s human capital ...suffers from a relatively low employment rate and, as mentioned above, unemployment has risen ... See full document

... geared towards economic ...back from advancing the structural reforms needed to support successive stabilisation programmes, the authorities have directly contributed to the boom-and-bust nature of ... See full document

... significant progress in the different areas of the internal ...legislative progress and constituted an important step towards further alignment with the ...good progress can be reported in ... See full document

... the Commission, on the question of internally displaced ...Resulting from Terrorist Acts was ...approach towards the region, no integrated strategy with a view to reducing regional disparities and ... See full document

... in 2002 were made possible by the implementation of a coherent mix of stability-oriented fiscal and monetary policies under the framework of the IMF stand-by ...in 2002 as average net wage growth was ... See full document

... of 2002, three operators have been given licences to enter the market although amendments to the regulatory framework are still under discussion in the ...requests from private operators were received, but ... See full document

... Concerning social inclusion, work has started to draft the Joint Inclusion Memorandum between the European Commission and the Turkish government. A national integrated strategy on promoting social inclusion, ... See full document

... Growth of real GDP has averaged 4.2%, with a slightly falling trend between 1997 and 2000 and a subsequent sharp slowdown. The highest growth rate was 6.8%, recorded in 1997. The downturn starting in the second half of ... See full document

... far from meeting these ...good progress, not only in aligning its legislation with the acquis (including the latest railway acquis), but also in restructuring the railway ... See full document

... last Regular Report, efforts in this area have focused mainly on the further implementation of the medium-term programme for the social integration of the ...January 2002 and created some political ... See full document

... Cyprus has maintained robust economic growth. Between 1997 and 2001, the economy grew by an average 4.2% annually. Domestic demand has been a primary growth motor, with consumption fluctuating around a period average of ... See full document

... good progress, but transposition is not ...strategy, progress was made in terms of training activities in the framework of the National Training Plan for the European Social Fund (ESF) as foreseen under the ... See full document

... EU accession between the two main political parties creates uncertainty about the continuation of certain ...August 2002, the government submitted to the EC the second Pre-Accession Economic ... See full document

... in October 2001. According to the report of this mission, which was adopted in March 2002 and subsequently made public, Lithuania seemed to be affected by corruption on a rather large scale, although ... See full document

... Further progress can be reported in the field of money laundering (see also Chapter 4 – Free movement of ...In October 2003, the Director of the Customs Agency endorsed internal rules on the control and ... See full document

... early 2002, attention has mostly focussed on the cyclical response to the slowdown and on the procedures for dealing with slippage from budgetary targets, especially the debate on whether an early-warning ... See full document