acquis communautaire

(literally ‘community achievement’) the accumulated legal regime of the European Union. Applicants for admission to the European Union must accept the achievements to date. It includes: the content, principles and political objectives of the treaties; the legislation adopted in application of the treaties and the case law of the Court of Justice; the declarations and resolutions adopted by the Union; measures relating to the common foreign and security policy; measures relating to justice and home affairs; international agreements concluded by the Union and those concluded by the Member States between themselves in the field of the Union's activities. Derogations are exceptional and limited in scope. See also ACCESSION AGREEMENTS.

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The ambassador said he would like to see more EU involvement in the negotiations "because it is in our interest to have all of Cyprus into the EU and to have a Cypriot state which is functional in the EU, in line with the acquis communautaire."

EU should play stronger role in Cyprus talks says Italian ambassador

He said AKEL had spotted the amendment's incompatibility with acquis communautaire during the relevant plenary discussion.

Dispute delays opening of detention centre

Nevertheless, he said that countries whose realistic expectations did not include accession to the Union in the next few years should think about intermediate steps towards full membership, such as an "EEA+" (European Economic Area Plus) that would allow them to implement the bulk of the acquis communautaire n.

EU/SERBIA/MONTENEGRO : MANDATES FOR SEPARATE EURO-INTEGRATION TALKS SET TO BE ISSUED

A solution consistent with the decisions of the UN Security Council and the European acquis communautaire. The entire Hellenism is in line with this effort and there is, I should say, joint position among all political parties.

Cyprus : The President of the Republic received the Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece

Examples of projects financed include: grants to Turkish Cypriot NGOs, villages, schools, students, SMEs (e1/435 million); reconciliation and confidence building projects such as demining (e1/46.5 million) and the Committee of Missing Persons (e1/43.5 million); projects in the water sector including desalination and waste water treatment plants in the northern part of Cyprus (e1/473 million); assistance to support the preparation for the implementation of the acquis communautaire in the north following reunification (e1/414.5 million).

Turkish Cypriot side has absorbed 99 per cent of EU aid

The Commission has been analysing the countries' state of preparedness in different areas of the acquis communautaire, or body of law, since the formal October 2005 launch of accession talks.

ENLARGEMENT : CROATIA NUDGES AHEAD OF TURKEY IN MEMBERSHIP TALKS

The Island-wide implementation of the EU's legal system, the acquis communautaire, the euro currency and a single central bank are essential for the Cyprus solution, said Andreas Pittas, President of the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (EOB)

Single central bank and euro currency key to economic solution

What the judge rejected was the claims by the Turkish Cypriot lawyer that the publication of the PDO application in a Turkish Cypriot newspaper constituted a breach of the current legislation whereby the government cannot enforce the acquis communautaire in the occupied areas -- something he asserts was part of the Republic's accession treaty.

Turkish halloumi requests rejected

But, as Eurostat, the EU's Statistical Office, which recently published the latest information on expenditure and investment in the environment*, pointed out, the highest investment levels in the environment are in the new member states in order to conform with the acquis communautaire.

NEW MEMBER STATES INVESTING HEAVILY IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Carried over from the October Council session, the decision to begin talks with the Balkans will mainly extend the acquis communautaire, or accumulated body of EU legislation, to Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Kosovo.

COUNCIL AGREES TO OPEN AVIATION TALKS WITH BALKANS AND MOROCCO

The latest conference surveyed developments in the acquis communautaire between the closure of chapters during the talks and October 1 this year.

EU/BULGARIA: FURTHER ACCESSION TECHNICALITIES TIDIED UP

Compliance with the acquis communautaire, such as Chapter 27 on the environment, is an indispensable obligation of all potential candidates for the European Union.