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Regulatory quality estimate of European Union candidate countries in 2023, by country

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Release date

January 2025

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

2023

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Regulatory quality captures perceptions of the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development. The measure ranges from a negative score of -2.5 to a positive score of 2.5.

* Kosovo is administered under UN Security Council Resolution 1244/99. It is recognized by 22 EU member states, but not by Spain, Greece, Romania, Cyprus, and Slovakia. Its status as an independent country is contested by Serbia.

Kosovo is a potential future candidate but has not begun the process of negotiations with the EU.

Negotiations between the EU and Turkey have been suspended since 2021, after a decision by the European Parliament, due to issues with human rights protections and the rule of law.

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Among candidate countries and potential future candidates for membership of the European Union, Georgia is the state with the highest quality of its government's regulatory capability. On the other hand, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Ukraine, and Kosovo perform poorly in this measure.

Government capacity and regulatory quality is a key indicator of how well these countries will be able to adapt to being members of the European Union. In fact, candidate countries are required to transpose a large amount of EU regulations into national law before they are allowed to join the Union. One of the key conditions of the Copenhagen criteria - the conditions which must be fulfilled before a country can join the EU - is administrative and institutional capacity.