裢喇4烧降发多大母 高级商务英语阅读 准成员国本地生产的消费品，质素参差、价钱昂贵而且种类较少，因此依赖进口。去年香港往 所有出口市场输出货品的数字均录得下跌，只有出口往上述欧盟十个准成员国的数字不跌反上升一 成。) 2.Enlargement---A historic opportunity From cooperation to accession Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989,the European Community quickly established diplomatic relations with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It removed long-standing import quotas on a number of products,extended the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)and,over the next few years,concluded Trade and Co-operation Agreements with Bulgaria,the former Czechoslovakia,Estonia,Hungary,Latvia,Lithuania,Poland, Romania and Slovenia. In the meantime,the European Community's Phare Programme,created in 1989,set out to provide financial support for the countries'efforts to reform and rebuild their economies.Phare soon became the world's largest assistance programme in Central and Eastern Europe,providing technical expertise and investment support. During the 1990s,the European Community and its Member States progressively concluded Association Agreements,so called 'Europe Agreements',with ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The Europe Agreements provide the legal basis for bilateral relations between these countries and the EU.The European Community had already established similar Association Agreements with Turkey (1963),Malta (1970)and Cyprus(1972).In the case of Turkey,a Customs Union entered into force in December 1995. Accession criteria In 1993,at the Copenhagen European Council,the Union took a decisive step towards the current enlargement,agreeing that"the associated countries in Central and Eastern Europe that so desire shall become members of the European Union."Thus,enlargement was no longer a question of 'if. but 'when'. 第4页共11页第 4 页 共 11 页 高级商务英语阅读 准成员国本地生产的消费品，质素参差、价钱昂贵而且种类较少，因此依赖进口。去年香港往 所有出口市场输出货品的数字均录得下跌，只有出口往上述欧盟十个准成员国的数字不跌反上升一 成。) 2. Enlargement--- A historic opportunity From cooperation to accession Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the European Community quickly established diplomatic relations with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It removed long-standing import quotas on a number of products, extended the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) and, over the next few years, concluded Trade and Co-operation Agreements with Bulgaria, the former Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. In the meantime, the European Community’s Phare Programme, created in 1989, set out to provide financial support for the countries’ efforts to reform and rebuild their economies. Phare soon became the world’s largest assistance programme in Central and Eastern Europe, providing technical expertise and investment support. During the 1990s, the European Community and its Member States progressively concluded Association Agreements, so called ‘Europe Agreements’, with ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Europe Agreements provide the legal basis for bilateral relations between these countries and the EU. The European Community had already established similar Association Agreements with Turkey (1963), Malta (1970) and Cyprus (1972). In the case of Turkey, a Customs Union entered into force in December 1995. Accession criteria In 1993, at the Copenhagen European Council, the Union took a decisive step towards the current enlargement, agreeing that “the associated countries in Central and Eastern Europe that so desire shall become members of the European Union.” Thus, enlargement was no longer a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’