Two years ago, Ukraine received the status of a candidate for accession to the European Union, and on 25 June, the actual negotiations on our accession to the EU will begin. On this day, our negotiating delegation will be presented to the European Commission and European officials.
Arsenii Pushkarenko, the MP, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, said.
"We expect that the European Commission will present the negotiation framework within which we will move, as well as its position on the negotiations. The first step in this is the screening of Ukrainian legislation. We have conducted it on our own and, having analysed 28,000 existing legislative acts, we see that the Parliament will have to adopt legislation for about three thousand, and the Government will have to adopt bylaws to bring our legislation in line with EU norms. This is our vision, which we will present to the European Commission on 25 June," the politician said.
According to him, after the start of negotiations, it will take about six months for the European Commission to conduct its own screening of our legislation.
"Sometime in early 2025, we will receive an official conclusion from the EU, which will indicate which European norms Ukraine should implement. The negotiations will be conducted under 33 negotiating chapters, which are grouped into 6 clusters (thematic blocks), the 34th chapter is institutional, and the 35th chapter deals with other issues," the MP explained.
He reminded that in order to become a full member of the European Union, a candidate country must meet the Copenhagen criteria approved in 1992. These include political principles, free market issues, and the institutional capacity of state authorities.