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The Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification (CVM) is safeguard measure invoked by the European Commission when a new member or acceding state of the European Union has failed to implement commitments undertaken in the context of the accession negotiations in the fields of the Area of freedom, security and justice or internal market policy. ==Background== Common practice in the EU is that during accession negotiations there are agreed some temporary transitional periods after accession of new states for derogation of application for specific parts of the acquis communautaire, because of difficulties either for the new member state (for example environmental regulations for large combustion plants) or for the old member states (for example free movement of workers). Such temporary transitional periods in regards to particular member states are also implemented when various new pieces of EU legislation are adopted . In some cases the derogation is not temporary, but permanent. Such derogations could be one of the major Opt-outs in the European Union (formulated in a treaty) or some minor derogations like the exemption of Sweden from the snus ban (formulated in EU legislation). Both an opt-out and an CVM constitute a suspension of the application of relevant provisions of EU law in regards to a particular member state, but in contrast to the opt-outs, that are established on initiative of the state concerned, the CVM is established on initiative of the Commission. In contrast to the temporary derogations, that are automatically discontinued after the end of the transitional period, the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification is permanent and its discontinuation is conditional only on the positive assessment of benchmarks fulfillment in the regular reports issued by the Commission. This is similar to the permanent derogations on Eurozone and Schengen Area for new member states (formulated in accession treaties), whose discontinuation is also conditional the on fulfillment of benchmarks (like the convergence criteria) and similarly assessed in regular progress reports. According to the treaties the new member states are obliged to fulfill the benchmarks for discontinuation of both these permanent derogations and the CVMs, but some of them deliberately delay these processes.〔For example Sweden in regards to Euro adoption.〕 The CVM is thus different from the Enhanced co-operation mechanism,〔A procedure by witch some EU member states are allowed to establish advanced integration or cooperation in an area within EU structures but without the other members being involved.〕 where generally all EU members are free to opt-in at any time into an already established Enhanced co-operation initiative, without preconditions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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