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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 ). These chapters were: For the negotiations with Croatia 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 #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 Correspondance between chapters of the 5th and the 6th Enlargement:
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 ''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'' {Link without Title} The OECD introduced the concept of the OECD Acquis in its " Strategy for enlargement and outreach ", May 2004. EXTERNAL LINKS
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