Under these criteria, an entrant into the bloc must be a stable democracy, have a working market economy, and adopt the common rules, standards and policies that make up EU law.
Prema tim kriterijumima, zemlja koja ulazi u Uniju mora da bude stabilna demokratija, da ima funkcionalnu tržišnu ekonomiju i da usvoji zajednička pravila, standarde i politiku koji čine pravo EU.