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The term acquis communautaire (International Phonetic Alphabet: ), or EU acquis, is used in European Union law to refer to the total body of EU law accumulated thus far.

Chapters of the Acquis 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 that joined in 2007). These chapters were:

{||-|
  • Free movement of goods
  • Free movement of persons
  • Freedom to provide services
  • Free movement of capital
  • Company law
  • Competition policy
  • Agriculture
  • Fishery
  • Transport policy
  • Taxation
  • Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union
  • Statistics
  • Social policy and employment
  • Energy
  • Industrial policy
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises
    • | valign=top|
  • Science and research
  • Education and training
  • Telecommunication and information technologies
  • Culture and audio-visual policy
  • Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
  • Environment
  • Consumers and health protection
  • Cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs
  • Customs union
  • External relations
  • Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
  • Financial control
  • Financial and budgetary provisions
  • Institutions
  • Others] and Turkey, the acquis was 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:

    {||-|
  • Free movement of goods
  • Freedom of movement for workers
  • Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
  • Free movement of capital
  • Public procurement
  • Company law
  • Intellectual property law
  • Competition policy
  • Financial services
  • Information society and media
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy
  • Fisheries
  • Transport policy
  • Energy
  • Taxation
  • Economic and monetary policy
  • Statistics
    • | valign=top|
  • Social policy and employment(including anti-discrimination and equal opportunities for women and men)
  • Enterprise and industrial policy
  • Trans-European networks
  • Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
  • Judiciary and fundamental rights
  • Justice, freedom and security
  • Science and research
  • Education and culture
  • Environment
  • Consumer and health protection
  • Customs union
  • External relations
  • Foreign, security and defence policy
  • Financial control
  • Financial and budgetary provisions
  • Institutions
  • Other issues|}

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


    {| border="0" cellpadding="3"|-----! 5th Enlargement! 6th Enlargement|----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 1. Free movement of goods| 1. Free movement of goods |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 7. Intellectual property law |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 2. Free movement of persons| 2. Freedom of movement for workers |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| 3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 3. Freedom to provide services| 3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 9. Financial services |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 4. Free movement of capital| 4. Free movement of capital |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 5. Company law| 6. Company law |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 6. Competition policy| 8. Competition policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| 5. Public procurement |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 7. Agriculture| 11. Agriculture and rural development |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 12. Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 8. Fisheries| 13. Fisheries |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 9. Transport policy| 14. Transport policy |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 21. Trans-European networks (one half of it) |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 10. Taxation| 16. Taxation |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 11. Economic and Monetary Union| 17. Economic and monetary policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 12. Statistics| 18. Statistics |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 13. Social policy and employment19. Social policy and employment
    (including anti-discrimination and equal opportunities for women and men) |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 14. Energy| 15. Energy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| 21. Trans-European networks (one half of it) |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 15. Industrial policy| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 20. Enterprise and industrial policy |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 16. Small and medium-sized enterprises |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 17. Science and research| 25. Science and research |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 18. Education and training| rowspan="3" valign="middle" | 26. Education and culture
    10. Information society and media |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 19. Telecommunication and information technologies |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 20. Culture and audio-visual policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 21. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments| 22. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 22. Environment| 27. Environment |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 23. Consumer and health protection| 28. Consumer and health protection |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 24. Cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs| 23. Judiciary and fundamental rights |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 24. Justice, freedom and security |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 25. Customs union| 29. Customs union |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 26. External relations| 30. External relations |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 27. Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)| 31. Foreign, security and defence policy |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 28. Financial control| 32. Financial control |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 29. Financial and budgetary provisions| 33. Financial and budgetary provisions |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 30. Institutions| 34. Institutions |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 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.

    Other uses The term is also used to describe laws adopted under the Schengen treaty, prior to its integration into the European Union legal order by the Treaty of Amsterdam, in which case one speaks of the Schengen acquis.

    The term acquis has been borrowed by the World Trade Organization Appellate Body, in the case Japan - Taxes on Alcoholic Beverages, to refer to the accumulation of GATT and WTO law ("acquis gattien"), though this usage is not well established.

    It has been used to describe the achievements of the Council of Europe (a body unconnected with the European Union): The Council of Europe’s acquis in standard setting activities in the fields of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights and freedoms should be considered as milestones towards the great European political project, and the European Court of Human Rights should be recognised as the pre-eminent judicial pillar of any future architecture. (Section 12, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Resolution 1290)

    It has also been applied to the body of "principles, norms and commitments" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):

    Another question under debate has been how the Partners and others could implement the OSCE acquis, in other words its principles, norms and commitments on a voluntary basis.

    Intervention by Ambassador Aleksi Härkönen, Permanent Representative of Finland to the OSCE, Annual Security Review Conference

    The OECD introduced the concept of the OECD Acquis in its " Strategy for enlargement and outreach", May 2004.

    External links

    The term acquis communautaire (International Phonetic Alphabet: ), or EU acquis, is used in European Union law to refer to the total body of EU law accumulated thus far.

    Chapters of the Acquis 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 that joined in 2007). These chapters were:

    {||-|
  • Free movement of goods
  • Free movement of persons
  • Freedom to provide services
  • Free movement of capital
  • Company law
  • Competition policy
  • Agriculture
  • Fishery
  • Transport policy
  • Taxation
  • Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union
  • Statistics
  • Social policy and employment
  • Energy
  • Industrial policy
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises
    • | valign=top|
  • Science and research
  • Education and training
  • Telecommunication and information technologies
  • Culture and audio-visual policy
  • Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
  • Environment
  • Consumers and health protection
  • Cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs
  • Customs union
  • External relations
  • Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
  • Financial control
  • Financial and budgetary provisions
  • Institutions
  • Others] and Turkey, the acquis was 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:

    {||-|
  • Free movement of goods
  • Freedom of movement for workers
  • Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
  • Free movement of capital
  • Public procurement
  • Company law
  • Intellectual property law
  • Competition policy
  • Financial services
  • Information society and media
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy
  • Fisheries
  • Transport policy
  • Energy
  • Taxation
  • Economic and monetary policy
  • Statistics
    • | valign=top|
  • Social policy and employment(including anti-discrimination and equal opportunities for women and men)
  • Enterprise and industrial policy
  • Trans-European networks
  • Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
  • Judiciary and fundamental rights
  • Justice, freedom and security
  • Science and research
  • Education and culture
  • Environment
  • Consumer and health protection
  • Customs union
  • External relations
  • Foreign, security and defence policy
  • Financial control
  • Financial and budgetary provisions
  • Institutions
  • Other issues|}

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


    {| border="0" cellpadding="3"|-----! 5th Enlargement! 6th Enlargement|----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 1. Free movement of goods| 1. Free movement of goods |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 7. Intellectual property law |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 2. Free movement of persons| 2. Freedom of movement for workers |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| 3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 3. Freedom to provide services| 3. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 9. Financial services |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 4. Free movement of capital| 4. Free movement of capital |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 5. Company law| 6. Company law |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 6. Competition policy| 8. Competition policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| 5. Public procurement |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 7. Agriculture| 11. Agriculture and rural development |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 12. Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 8. Fisheries| 13. Fisheries |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 9. Transport policy| 14. Transport policy |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 21. Trans-European networks (one half of it) |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 10. Taxation| 16. Taxation |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 11. Economic and Monetary Union| 17. Economic and monetary policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 12. Statistics| 18. Statistics |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 13. Social policy and employment19. Social policy and employment
    (including anti-discrimination and equal opportunities for women and men) |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 14. Energy| 15. Energy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| 21. Trans-European networks (one half of it) |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 15. Industrial policy| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 20. Enterprise and industrial policy |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 16. Small and medium-sized enterprises |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 17. Science and research| 25. Science and research |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 18. Education and training| rowspan="3" valign="middle" | 26. Education and culture
    10. Information society and media |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 19. Telecommunication and information technologies |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 20. Culture and audio-visual policy |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 21. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments| 22. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 22. Environment| 27. Environment |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 23. Consumer and health protection| 28. Consumer and health protection |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 24. Cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs| 23. Judiciary and fundamental rights |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| 24. Justice, freedom and security |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 25. Customs union| 29. Customs union |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 26. External relations| 30. External relations |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 27. Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)| 31. Foreign, security and defence policy |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 28. Financial control| 32. Financial control |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 29. Financial and budgetary provisions| 33. Financial and budgetary provisions |----- bgcolor="#efefff"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 30. Institutions| 34. Institutions |----- bgcolor="#efefef"| rowspan="1" valign="top" | 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.

    Other uses The term is also used to describe laws adopted under the Schengen treaty, prior to its integration into the European Union legal order by the Treaty of Amsterdam, in which case one speaks of the Schengen acquis.

    The term acquis has been borrowed by the World Trade Organization Appellate Body, in the case Japan - Taxes on Alcoholic Beverages, to refer to the accumulation of GATT and WTO law ("acquis gattien"), though this usage is not well established.

    It has been used to describe the achievements of the Council of Europe (a body unconnected with the European Union): The Council of Europe’s acquis in standard setting activities in the fields of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights and freedoms should be considered as milestones towards the great European political project, and the European Court of Human Rights should be recognised as the pre-eminent judicial pillar of any future architecture. (Section 12, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Resolution 1290)

    It has also been applied to the body of "principles, norms and commitments" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):

    Another question under debate has been how the Partners and others could implement the OSCE acquis, in other words its principles, norms and commitments on a voluntary basis.

    Intervention by Ambassador Aleksi Härkönen, Permanent Representative of Finland to the OSCE, Annual Security Review Conference

    The OECD introduced the concept of the OECD Acquis in its " Strategy for enlargement and outreach", May 2004.

    External links



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