There is a risk that the changes resulting from the implementation of the Community acquis will further accentuate the social tensions in the candidate countries.
The purpose of this report is precisely to highlight the major shortcomings encountered in the implementation of the Schengen acquis.
The full and timely implementation of the entire waste "acquis", including the significant improvements introduced by the recently adopted revision of EU waste legislation, by competent authorities in the Member States, is a critical first step.
In fact, Eastern Europe has already implemented many aspects of the acquis communautaire.
In cases where the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement calls for a change to the acquis, Parliament, like the Council, must be able to exercise its legislative prerogative.
But often one side or the other will seek a temporary modification of the acquis, a "transition period".
The Schengen acquis has been incorporated into the Union, and most of the provisions of the acquis concerning the free movement of persons have been allocated a legal base in Title IV of the Treaty Establishing the European Community ("TEC").
After an entire year's work, Lithuania, another would-be member, has translated a mere 4,000 pages of the acquis communautaire, the body of EU law.
Flexibility seems to go against the principle of the acquis communautaire the corpus of EU laws and regulations that all members are required to adopt.
There remain plenty of chapters of the acquis to open, so if progress is not being made, the fault lies with Turkish intransigence on Cyprus.
