Integrimi Evropian

European Integration

Office for Economic Criteria and Internal Market

The Office for Economic Criteria and Internal Market is an organisational unit of the Office of the Prime Minister in charge of coordinating implementation of reforms for integration into the European Union in areas within Economic Criteria (which includes the following ones: Existence of a Functioning Market Economy andCapacity to Cope with Competitive Pressure and Market Forces within the Union), as well as in the following negotiation chapters:

Chapter 1: Free Movement of Goods;
Chapter 2: Freedom of Movement of Workers;
Chapter 3: Right of Establishment and Freedom to Provide Services;
Chapter 4: Free Movement of Capital;
Chapter 5: Public Procurement;
Chapter 6: Company Law;
Chapter 7: Intellectual Property Law;
Chapter 8: Competition Policy;
Chapter 9: Financial Services;
Chapter 16: Taxation;
Chapter 17: Economic and Monetary Policy;
Chapter 18: Statistics;
Chapter 19: Social Policy and Employment;
Chapter 20: Enterprise and Industrial Policy;
Chapter 22: Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Instruments (partially);
Chapter 25: Science and Research;
Chapter 26: Education and Culture:
Chapter 28: Consumer and Health Protection;
Chapter 29: Customs Union;
Chapter 30: External Relations;
Chapter 32: Financial Control; and
Chapter 33: Financial and Budgetary Provisions.

Within the aforementioned areas and chapters, the Office of Economic Criteria and Internal Market exercises these functions by aligning policies of the Republic of Kosova with those of the EU in these areas, participating in their drafting and providing professional opinions on their alignment with the requirements of the EU acquisand European standards, monitoring and evaluating their implementation, as well as coordinating the preparation of the main national policy documents for EU integration in these areas and monitoring their implementation.

This office also coordinates the reform dialogue with the EU in these areas and chapters by co-chairing four EU– Kosova Stabilisation and Association subcommittees (SC on Trade, Industry, Customs and Taxation, SC on Internal Market and Competition, SC on Economic and Financial Issues and Statistics, and SC on Innovation, Information Society and Social Policy) and four Sectoral Working Groups for European Integration (SWGEI on Trade, Industry, Customs and Taxation, SWGEI on Internal Market and Competition, SWGEI on Economic and Financial Issues and Statistics, and SWGEI on Innovation, Information Society and Social Policy), as well as by coordinating and providing professional support to their functioning and of EU membership negotiationstructures in these areas and chapters.

The Office for Economic Criteria and Internal Market also prepares regular reports for the European Commission on implementation of EU integration reforms in the aforementioned areas and chapters.

The following divisions are part of the Economic Criteria and Internal Market:

Division of Economy, Regional Development and Statistics;
Division of Internal Market and Trade; and
Division of Social Policy, Education and Health.

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