TURKEY’S PROGRESS IN CHAPTERS OPENED FOR NEGOTIATION

Cengiz Aktar and Barış Gençer Baykan

Betam has recently published the general tableau showing comparatively the ongoing negotiations of Turkey and Croatia with European Union. Now we are taking a closer look at the progress in the chapters that Turkey has opened to negotiation. As of 15 April 2009 Turkey has opened ten chapters and closed 1 of these. Science and Research chapter has been temporarily closed and the following chapters are still negotiated:  Company Law, Intellectual Property Law, Statistics, Trans-European Networks, Enterprise and Industrial Policy, Consumer and Health Protection, Financial Control, Information Society and Media and Free Movement of Capital.

The below table  illustrates  the European Council’s closing benchmarks and Turkey’s progress in open chapters in a comparative manner, using fresh data from the General Secretariat for EU Affairs.

doc. ResearchBrief030

pdf. ResearchBrief030