EU accession: Ukraine presents legislation for key negotiation cluster to Eurean Commission

This is reported by the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers, as relayed by Ukrinform.

Over the course of two days, the Ukrainian delegation, the vast majority of which were representatives of the State Statistics Service, presented to the Eurean Commission and Eurostat the state of implementation of EU law in state statistical activities, the capacity of the Ukrainian state statistics authorities, methodogy and data quality. The parties also discussed the expansion of the list of datasets that the State Statistics Service should transfer to Eurostat.

“Ukraine demonstrates every day that nothing can st or slow us down on the way to achieving our strategic goal of membership in the Eurean Union. I thank the negotiating teams for the high level of preparation and presentation of our country. We expect that the Eurean Commission’s report on the results of the screening within Cluster 1 will allow us to en this cluster as soon as possible in 2025,” said ha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for Eurean and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Minister of Justice of Ukraine.

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Next week, bilateral meetings will begin in Brussels under the second negotiating cluster, Internal Market, which will focus on free movement of goods, freedom of movement of workers, business and services, competition picy, corporate law, etc.

As reported by Ukrinform, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and Eurean Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement ivér Várhelyi stated that the legislative screening is progressing successfully, and if Ukraine meets all the conditions, the Commission expects to begin negotiations on the clusters, starting with basic issues, as soon as possible in 2025.