[PDF] Top 20 Regular report from the Commission on Lithuania's progress towards accession 2001. SEC (2001) 1750 final, 13 November 2001

... considerable progress is still required. Payments of own resources to the Commission should eventually be handled centrally to minimise the risk of errors and the need for ...by Lithuania needs to be ... See full document

... shift towards inflation targeting as soon as inflationary pressures have come down ...October 2001, annualised treasury bill yields were still around ... See full document

... July 2001. In April 2001, it discussed the “anti-bureaucracy programme” adopted in 1999 (cutting red tape for investments) and set a timetable for implementation of the ... See full document

... last Regular Report, only four big privatisations have taken place so far: Prazske vodovody a kanalizace (operations, but not infrastructure), Komercni Banka, Ceske Radiokommunikace and Ceska Pojistovna ... See full document

... April 2001. This constitutes an important step towards a more coherent and Schengen-compatible border security with the creation of a more unified, specially trained and nation-wide border police ... See full document

... policy towards the enterprise sector has often directed scarce resources to the support of the state owned sector at the expense of developing a strong private ...companies from building up very ... See full document

... in 2001) has also been ...further progress was made with respect to the rules of ...In November 2002 the National Strategy for Counteracting Crime 2002-2005 was adopted by the Council of Ministers, ... See full document

... the Commission Delegation in Ankara has continued to bear ...in 2001 to establish a decentralised implementation system in Turkey, the Commission has accredited the agencies forming part of the ... See full document

... Privatisation accelerated but the authorities’ agenda remains unfinished, especially in the energy sector. The number of companies in state ownership decreased from 1673 at end-2001 to 1342 in mid-2003 ... See full document

... increased from some 15% in 1999 to ...of regular employees has expanded significantly over the past 5 years, whereas in particular the number of occasional employees and unpaid family workers fell over the ... See full document

... However, there are still serious economic imbalances with high inflation and a widening current account deficit, in a difficult social environment. The still fragile macroeconomic environment, the uncertain legal ... See full document

... this progress, it seems necessary to employ additional human resources in this area to implement effectively the said legislative ...funds from the Commission to Hungary and towards regional ... See full document

... good progress in both adopting and implementing the ...market, progress has been made in free movement of goods in aligning public procurement legislation and adopting standards although there is still a ... See full document

... policy. Accession to the European Union enjoys wide support among all political ...July 2001, and a summary presented to ...of 2001 suggest that growth has been slowing down ... See full document

... The number of new private firms being set up in 2000 in Bulgaria is growing, even though investors are often faced with long bureaucratic procedures. There were 60 thousand companies registered for VAT by end March ... See full document

... million from Phare, 186.6 million from SAPARD, and between €312 and €385 million from ...after accession and is supported by a limited number of measures (investment or grant schemes) with a ... See full document

... EU accession between the government on the one hand, and the opposition and the main trade union on the other hand, creates some uncertainties about the continuity of some economic policies in the medium ... See full document

... The transposition of the general framework is almost completed. The Law on Conformity Assessment which defines the overall conformity assessment system, was completed by the adoption of two implementing regulations ... 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

... in November 2003 contain a definition of the situations related to conflicts of interest and disclosure for civil servants (see ...exempted from this ... See full document