The goal of the AEC as set forth in the AEC blueprint is to “establish ASEAN as a single market and production base making ASEAN more dynamic and competitive with new mechanisms and measures to strengthen the implementation of existing economic initiatives; accelerating regional integration in the priority sectors; facilitating movement of business persons; skilled labor and talents; and strengthening the institutional mechanisms of ASEAN” and “to hasten the establishment of the [AEC] by 2015”.