A8: countries which joined the EU in 2004 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). A2: countries which joined the EU in 2007 (Bulgaria and Romania). Governments of EU countries allowed restrictions for up to seven years to the imposed on the right to work for citizens from these ten countries, after which they are to have same rights to work in other EU States as other EU nationals (by April 2011 for A8 nationals and December 2013 for A2 nationals).