in a statement after completing the so-called „screening“ of 20 chapters of EU law with stragglers Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Romania. Under the „screening“ process, which is also going on with the five frontrunners Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Estonia, the EU explains its pages and pages of laws to help the applicants work out how to integrate them into their own statute books. „The screening has revealed that these countries are making a concerted effort to adopt and implement Community law in line with priorities set out in their Accession partnerships,“ the EU executive said. „However, all face considerable problems in establishing and strengthening the structures required to implement it effectively and efficiently,“ it said. Accession partnerships are the contractual relationships which underpin the formal accession talks with the five frontrunners and the preparations by the five countries on the slower track. The screening process with the five „left-outs“, which the European Union prefers to refer to as „pre-ins“ has covered areas such as the free movement of goods, the freedom of movement to provide services, freedom of capital movements and competition, the Commission said. The Commission has also expressed concerns about structures in the five front-runner countries. The performance by the 10 eastern European candidates in preparing for EU membership comes up for review at the end of the year by EU leaders. At that point the „ins“ can be shoved „off“ the fast track to EU membership and the „pre-ins“ can be let „in“ to formal talks.