# Council Decision of 18 February 2008 on the principles, priorities and conditions contained in the Accession Partnership with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and repealing Decision 2006/57/EC (2008/212/EC), Division: Economic criteria

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Step up efforts to safeguard the sustainability of the electricity market, in view of the country's commitments to liberalisation, by eliminating existing distortions due to non-cost-recovery prices and by strengthening the regulatory institutions and the physical infrastructure.
Raise the quality of public spending by strengthening the public sector's capacity for medium-term planning and improving the budgetary execution. Continue to improve the quality of education, by providing the follow-up funding for infrastructure and staffing necessary to implement thoroughly recent reforms in the education sector.
Continue to improve the labour market performance and to reduce unemployment, in particular by taking additional measures to address youth and long-term unemployment and by modernising the social security and educational system.
Continue efforts to integrate the informal sector into the formal economy.
Upgrade the country's infrastructure, in particular for energy and transport, in order to strengthen the competitiveness of the economy at large.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/212/annex/division/3/division/3.2/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-212/annex/division-3/division-3.2/division-2
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