Sentences with phrase «accession negotiations»

There then follow detailed accession negotiations which also take considerable time, before all existing member states and their Parliament have to approve a candidate.

Serbia began European Union accession negotiations formally in 2014.

The EU demanded Serbia impose sanctions during accession negotiations but offered Belgrade little in return.

«It is important that we do not freeze the accession negotiations because that would only further damage the relationship between Turkey and Europe, and that would not be in the interest of Turkey or of Europe,» she added.

Not exact matches

This situation has prompted the EU to freeze negotiations on eight chapters of the acquis communautaire, negotiations which are required to be completed before EU member states can vote on the accession.

The European Council of June 2004 invited Turkey to conclude negotiations with the Commission on behalf of the Community and its 25 Member States on the adaptation of the Ankara Agreement to take account of the accession of the new Member States.

The result of such negotiations could be Scotland's accession to the EU at the moment of independence.

But the (then) EEC Institutions responded to this event in a pragmatic and expedient manner, enabling a united Germany to become a member of the EU without long drawn out negotiations, accession proceedings or legal wranglings.

; b) what lessons has China learned from bilateral negotiations with the U.S. to work out the terms for China to get accession to the WTO?

Andrew Drzemczewski opens part I on institutional arrangements, the prior involvement procedure and the autonomy of the EU with an overview of the negotiation process and highlights a number of «selected features» from the draft Accession Agreement which proves to be a perfect starting point to set the scene, especially for readers without any prior knowledge of the context and history of EU accession to Accession Agreement which proves to be a perfect starting point to set the scene, especially for readers without any prior knowledge of the context and history of EU accession to accession to the ECHR.

The Opinion will generally render future accession highly difficult and delay it in addition, since already the negotiations of the draft agreement proved protracted and complex and since in the draft agreement suggestions by the CJEU which was represented in the relevant Council committee had already been taken into account.

The EU took another step towards accession to the ECHR with the finalization, late last week, of the Draft Revised Agreement on the Accession of the EU to the ECHR, after almost three years of negoaccession to the ECHR with the finalization, late last week, of the Draft Revised Agreement on the Accession of the EU to the ECHR, after almost three years of negoAccession of the EU to the ECHR, after almost three years of negotiations.

Consequently, on 4 June 2010 the Council gave a mandate to the Commission to start negotiations with the Council of Europe on accession of the EU to the ECHR.

While the opinion does not discuss any other international organizations, it is made plain that accession will depend on the rules of each organization: some, like the IMF and World Bank, have in fact accepted that a state may directly succeed to membership if they are satisfied that the necessary requirements are fulfilled (see «State Succession in Treaties» Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law); the WTO, on the other hand, has a complicated process which includes lengthy bilateral market access negotiations and a vote by the WTO Members on the terms of the accession package (a process navigated most recently by Tajikistan who will become the 159th Member on 2 March).

Developed trade law expertise and awareness throughout General Motors to identify, manage and optimize international trade related opportunities including trade agreement negotiations (NAFTA, Canada - EU / CETA, Canada - Korea FTA, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), Mercosur - Mexico), development of auto industry programs, and WTO accessions, securing solutions to trade impediments and significant savings (China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa).

Hence, accession might take the form of a negotiation about the terms of Scotland's membership, rather than a fully - fledged accession process.