2010 ilerleme raporu - Avrupa Birliği Bakanlığı

enefits from previous years of fiscal consolidation and overall medium-term fiscalsustainability, and to achieve strong, sustained and balanced growth. Privatisation hasadvanced, albeit at a slower pace due to the global economic environment. The financialsector has shown remarkable strength thanks to earlier reforms. Investment picked up stronglyand some limited progress was made in upgrading the country's human and physical capital.Turkey was able to partly diversify its trade towards new markets, thereby alleviating to acertain extent the impact of the crisis. Trade and economic integration with the EU remainedhigh.However, external imbalances and financing needs have been growing significantly on theback of resuming growth and although access to external finance remained unproblematic.Inflationary pressures increased considerably, chiefly because of pressures stemming fromenergy inputs and buoyant economic activity. Making more progress with fiscal transparency,strengthening the inflation targeting framework and preserving financial stability remain keyconditions in order to minimize the risks of a boom-bust scenario. The unemployment rateremains higher than its pre-crisis levels and demographic factors are expected to keepunemployment high in coming years. The low capacity to create new jobs is clearly linked toa skills-mismatch between labour demand and supply, as well as excessive labour marketregulation. There are obstacles to market exit and bankruptcy proceedings are relativelycumbersome. The crisis has further complicated the access of SMEs to finance. The legalenvironment, and in particular court procedures, continue to pose practical challenges andcreate obstacles to a better business environment. The current product market regulation andthe persisting lack of transparency on the allocation of state aids are not conducive toimproving the business climate. The informal economy remains an important challenge.Turkey continued improving its ability to take on the obligations of membership. Progress,at times uneven, was made in most areas. Alignment is advanced in certain areas, such as thefree movement of goods, intellectual property rights, anti-trust policy, energy, enterprise andindustrial policy, consumer protection, statistics, Trans-European Networks, and science andresearch. Efforts need to continue to pursue alignment in areas such as environment, companylaw, public procurement and right of establishment and freedom to provide services. Asregards the Customs Union, alignment needs to be completed. A number of longstandingtrade irritants remain unresolved, such as conformity assessments checks, import and exportlicensing requirements, IPR effective enforcement, requirements for the registration of newpharmaceutical products and tax discriminatory treatment. It is essential that Turkey fullyimplements the Customs Union and removes a large number of obstacles affecting EUproducts that are in free circulation. For most areas it is crucial that Turkey improves itsadministrative capacity to cope with the acquis.With regards to free movement of goods legislative alignment is quite advanced, but limitedprogress can be reported. Technical barriers to trade continue to exist hampering freecirculation of goods and new barriers have been added. Little progress has been made in thearea of freedom of movement for workers, for which alignment is at an early stage. Alignmentin the areas right of establishment and the freedom to provide services is at an early stage.Very limited progress can be reported as regards mutual recognition of professionalqualifications. No progress has been recorded in the fields of services and establishment. Onfree movement of capital progress was made, in particular on alignment with the acquis in thearea of the fight against money laundering. The legal framework against financing ofEN11EN