Albanian process to EU integration and the free market legal reform

• Author: Ervin Karamuço Irvin Faniko
• Position: University Aleksander Moisiu, Albania - Beder University, Albania
• Pages: 132-139

IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol. 1 No. 3

November 2015

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Albanian process to EU integration and the free market legal reform

Ervin Karamuço

University Aleksander Moisiu, Albania

Irvin Faniko

Beder University, Albania

Abstract

The establishment of the free market and fair competition is a challenge for many countries

aiming for accession to the EU, because this model helps in the consolidation of democracy,

rule of law, economic development and protection of human rights. After 90s Albania has

undertaken a series of initiatives to reform its internal market with new regulations in

conformity with EU standards with a view to fulfill the duties of the approximation of

legislation as the process of integration needs. Creating a free market and fair competition is

accompanied in Albania with great legislation effort, which not only have had to reform market

system in the country, but also to harmonize the needs of citizens in terms of new open market,

globalization and the rules of EU in this respect. This paper aims to highlight all legislative

procedures followed to improve the market system and to guarantee a fair competition in the

framework of harmonization with EU rules in order to set conclusions about the current

situation in this field.

Keywords: Albania, EU, Integration, Free legal market.

Introduction

The Community discipline of competition has played a very important role in creating

the Steel and Coal Community, and is configured as one of the key instruments through

which the European Community has persecuted its goals for economic integration

and the creation of a single European market.

Although the European Community has been enlarged with other European countries,

reaching the present number of 28 members, this enlargement has not produced

substantial consequences on competition rules. Both the principle of free competition

and that of the market economy have continued to be ranked among the basic

principles of the Community. The European Community Treaty ECT has indeed

ranked first among the goals of the Community “the creation of a common market”,

thus acknowledging a special importance to the free competition and not to the

distorted one (Article 3, ECT). In the framework of the internal market the

implementation of the community rights should be achieved through the creation

and the operation of a system based on the principles and rules of competition and

not through the intervention either of the community organs or the member state

organs (Bastianon, 78, 2005).

On the other hand the choice in favor of the market economy and undistorted

competition has been nowadays embraced by all industrialized countries. The

community system of competition presents a special importance not only in terms of