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EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige

EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige. The Single Market in an Enlarged EU. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige. - European Charter for Small Enterprises (2000) :

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EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige

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  1. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige The Single Market in an Enlarged EU

  2. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige • - European Charter for Small Enterprises (2000) : • - Education and training for entrepreneurship; • - Cheaper and faster start-up; • - Better legislation and regulation; • - Availability of skills; • - Improving online access; • - Getting more out of the Single Market; • - Taxation and financial matters; • - Strengthening the technological capacity of small enterprises; • - Making use of successful e-business models and developing top-class • small business support; • - Developing stronger, more effective representation of small enterprises’ • interests at Union and national level. • - Multi-annual programme for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship for 2001-2005.

  3. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige The Commission’s role : 1) Promote enterprising and growth - Action Plan for Entrepreneurship - SME Envoy - Euro Info Centres (EICs) 2) Monitor the Single Market

  4. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Internal Market Strategy 2003-2006: • Key priorities for the EU: • 1) Establish a fully integrated financial market • 2) Create a genuine Internal Market for services • 3) Improve the free flow of goods • 4) Public procurement

  5. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Benefits of the Single Market: - EU GNP is 2 % higher - 2.5 million new jobs created - 900 billion euro in added prosperity (6000 euro/ household). - Recent enlargement has/will stimulate the single market even more. - Trade between old and new Member States has been increasing more than eight-fold between 1995 and 2000.

  6. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONEN DG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATION Representationen i Sverige • State Aid: • - New member states put in significantly more money in the form of state aid into their businesses than the EU-15 states prior to 1 May 2004. • - The Commission expects the EU-10's state subsidies to decrease in the longer run. • - The EU-10 countries have done a "remarkable job" in embracing the market economy. They have allocated more than the EU-15 in state subsidies to businesses. - State aid in the EU-10 countries amounted to 1.42% of GDP in 2000-2003. - The EU-15 average was 0.4%.

  7. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige - New member states will reduce level of state subsidies once they overcome the problems specific to their economies prior to EU accession. - The new member states with the largest economies have the biggest amounts of subsidies: - Poland - 2.4 billion euro/year - Czech Republic - 1.9 billion euro/year - Hungary - 0.6 billion euro/year = 86% of total state aid in the EU-10.

  8. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige "More must be done by all 25 countries to further reduce the overall levels of aid and to shift the emphasis from supporting individual companies towards increasing Europe's competitiveness through aid to research and development, environment and cohesion“ - Mario Monti, former Competition Commissioner.

  9. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige Structural Funds - The structural funding for new member countries, during the period 2004-2006, approx. 21 billion euro. - Commission’s proposal for long term budget, 2007-2013: - 340 billion euro for the whole period - the aid of the structural funds will increase gradually (taking into account the 4% limit). - 2013 budget will comprise more than 50 billion euro (53-54 % to 12 new member states). - Third cohesion report: structural fund policy more integrated in the growth policy

  10. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • The Euro • EU-10 states participate in the Economic policy coordination and surveillance rules from date of accession, until the convergence criteria are fulfilled. • The Commission’s first comprehensive report (November 2004) on the new member states’ practical preparations for the euro: • - faster and smoother process than the current euro zone • - big bang introduction in several of EU-10 countries • - No pre-defined timetable for the adoption of the euro (although there is an obligation to adopt the common currency for the new member states).

  11. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Progress towards Maastricht (2004 data)   • Country Inflation rate  Government deficit Government debt • (Aug 2003-Aug 2004) (% of GDP) (% of GDP) • Maastricht criteriaNot more than 1.5%  -3.0 60.0 • above lowest three • Cyprus 2.1 -6.4 70.9 • Czech Republic 1.8 -12.6 37.8 • Estonia 2.0 +3.1 5.3 • Hungary 6.5 -6.2 59.1 • Latvia 4.9 -1.5 21.4 • Lithuania -0.2 -1.9 21.9 • Malta 2.6 -9.7 71.1 • Poland 2.5 -3.9 45.4 • Slovakia 8.4 -3.7 42.6 • Slovenia 4.1 -2.0 29.4

  12. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Probable target dates for euro introduction: - Estonia ,  Lithuania, Slovenia – 1 January 2007 - Cyprus, Poland – 2007 - Malta, Latvia – 2008 - Slovakia – 2009 - Hungary, Czech Republic – 2010

  13. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • First survey on the perception of the euro in EU-10 states: • - 50 % interested of the introduction of the euro in • the countries • - 44 % believe introduction of the euro will have • positive consequences, while 41% think the contrary. • - 40% the respondents believe that the euro should be • introduced "as late as possible", 19% think that • the changeover should occur "as soon as possible".

  14. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) • The policy was first outlined by the Commission in its Communication on Wider Europe (March 2003). • European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument, support the implementation of the policy. • - Includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the Palestinian Authority. • - The ENP does not aim to open up the prospect of membership to the countries concerned. • The ENP’s objectives: • - Provide means for reinforcing bilateral relations • - Strengthening security and stability (European Security Strategy) • - Aim at a significant degree of integration (including a stake • for the partner states in the EU's Internal Market). • - Encourage human rights, the rule of law and good • governance. • - Promote co-operation in fighting terrorism and cross-border • crime such as trafficking in drugs and human beings.

  15. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Commission’s Strategy Paper and Country Reports (May 2004): • The Strategy: setting out in concrete terms how the Union can work more closely with its • neighbours and extend some of the benefits of enlargement. • A first set of draft Action Plans with partner countries (on the basis of the Strategy paper). • - The Action Plans are key political documents for the further development of the • relations. • - Method: together with partner countries,define a set of priorities,whose fulfilment • will bring them closer to the European Union. • Priorities cover a number of key areas for specific action: • - political dialogue and reform • - trade and measures preparing partners for gradually obtaining a stake in • the EU’s Internal Market • - justice and home affairs • - energy, transport, information society, environment and research and • innovation • - social policy and people-to-people contacts

  16. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Existing Partnership Instruments: • - Eastern Europe: Partnership and Cooperation Agreement • - Mediterranean: Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Barcelona Process) and network of Association Agreements.

  17. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige • Further enlargement… • Bulgaria: Accession treaty expected to be signed in 2005. Full membership scheduled for 1 January 2007.  • Romania: Negotiations on accession chapters scheduled to be completed in 2004. Probably join the EU on 1 January 2007. • Croatia: Official candidate status in June 2004. Accession negotiations scheduled to start in early 2005. Target date for becoming full EU member 1 January 2007.  • Turkey: Associate member of the EU since 1963 and official candidate since 1999. European Council will decide in December if negotiations on full membership status will start.

  18. EUROPEISKA KOMMISSIONENDG PRESS OCH KOMMUNIKATIONRepresentationen i Sverige Questions : - Which obstacles do economic operators encounter in the new member states ? - Which is the role of the Commission in solving these problems ? - Which view do the countries have on trade policy in the future ?

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