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Formal decision on the opening of Chapter 23 soon

Belgrade, 26 May 2016

Serbia's Chief Negotiator with the EU Tanja Miscevic said she expects the formal decision on the opening of Chapter 23 to be made on 1 June so that it could be opened by the end of June.

Tanja Miscevic

The solution for the opening of Chapter 23 will be presented to Serbia after the Committee of Permanent Representatives adopts it, Miscevic told Belgrade-based broadcaster B92.

This means Serbia will be invited to present its negotiating positions and start the other part of the process, during which the country will provide European institutions with additional answers to certain questions, she added.

All this put together gives us enough time to remove all political and technical hurdles for the opening of the chapters by the end of June, Miscevic said.

Johannes Hahn

European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said that a way has been found to open Chapter 23 in accession negotiations between Serbia and the EU by the end of June.

He expressed the hope that this will happen at a meeting of EU ambassadors next Wednesday.

The text of the decision was agreed with Croatia stating that Serbia has met the conditions for opening this chapter as well as the text of a joint negotiating position of the EU, said Hahn.

He denied allegations of representatives of the Croatian government that this was disinformation and reiterated that everything is aligned, first of all, between the member states.