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Serbia must adopt nearly 65,000 law pages, other legal acts in process of joining EU

Belgrade, 2 August 2007

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said today that Serbia needs to adopt some 65,000 law pages and other legal acts in the process of joining the EU, due to which it is necessary that executive authorities and parliament maximise efficiency.

Bozidar Djelic

In an interview for the weekly “Evropa”, Djelic pointed to the fact that Serbian parliament in its former term adopted more than 200 laws during three years, while in the final phase of joining the EU Slovenia had a system which allowed it to adopt 120 laws in one day.

He recalled that Bulgaria was also faced with a shortage of time so the Bulgarian parliament even adopted some laws in the English language, and added that due to the enormous amount of work Serbia must introduce changes to rules on functioning of parliament.

According to Djelic, Serbia should begin negotiations by the end of the year on entering the White Schengen List, and during these negotiations the law on travel documents should be adopted as soon as possible, which would make it possible to introduce Serbian passports with biometric data.

Similarly, we must also adopt laws on borders, asylum and foreigners, and we must show that we are fully in control of who is entering and leaving Serbia, said Djelic and added that the state should also conduct a serious fight against organised crime.

Commenting on distribution of funds from the National Investment Plan thus far, Djelic said that during previous years developmental projects in Serbia were divided into thousands of smaller projects, due to which citizens have not seen what privatisation proceeds were spent on.

We cannot show citizens which capital infrastructure was built or what kind of concrete progress was made, due to that, in autumn I plan to recommend serious changes to the Budget System Law and the Public Procurement Law, said Djelic.

He stressed that privatisation of public enterprises cannot begin before a specific law and programme is adopted for each of these companies, and added that in the future not even a single Euro acquired through privatisation will be used for public expenditure.