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European Commission comments positively on Serbia’s national EU integration programme
Belgrade,
1 August 2008
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Bozidar Djelic and the Serbian government’s EU Integration Office received positive comments today on Serbia’s national EU integration programme from Director of the EU Enlargement Directorate-General Michael Lee.
In his letter, Lee congratulates the Serbian government on its professional work and says that his expectations of the final version of the national programme, to be presented in autumn, are high.
Djelic, who is also Minister of Science and Technological Development, said that Serbia is very satisfied that the European Commission has commented positively and in detail on Serbia’s national EU integration programme.
We will carefully examine all open questions to prove, using the final version of the national programme, that Serbia can be ready to join the EU by the end of 2012, said Djelic.
Director of the EU Integration Office Tanja Miscevic said that the European Commission’s comments are constructive and have been forwarded to all relevant ministries, which will examine them and add them to the text of the national programme.
Miscevic said that remarks which are collected during public debate on the document are carefully studied in talks with regional chambers of commerce, local self-governments and civil society organisations and will definitely be included in the text of the national programme.
According to Miscevic, Serbia plans to have a final version of the national programme by the end of August, so that the Serbian government can adopt it in September and have a clear work plan for the next four years.
The national EU integration programme will set out the government’s basic legislative work plan until 2012 which is the year ear-marked in Serbia’s strategy for joining the EU as the year when Serbia will be ready to take on obligations stemming from EU membership. She added that the national programme will be revised once annually.
The national programme is precise, and its text covers more than 800 pages, and it is a plan for meeting criteria for EU membership, from political and economic, to the adoption of laws and most detailed standards which exist in the EU in the areas of trade, agriculture, environmental protection and infrastructure.
These conditions for EU membership were agreed upon by the EU Council of Ministers in Copenhagen in 1993.
Djelic, who is also Minister of Science and Technological Development, said that Serbia is very satisfied that the European Commission has commented positively and in detail on Serbia’s national EU integration programme.
We will carefully examine all open questions to prove, using the final version of the national programme, that Serbia can be ready to join the EU by the end of 2012, said Djelic.
Director of the EU Integration Office Tanja Miscevic said that the European Commission’s comments are constructive and have been forwarded to all relevant ministries, which will examine them and add them to the text of the national programme.
Miscevic said that remarks which are collected during public debate on the document are carefully studied in talks with regional chambers of commerce, local self-governments and civil society organisations and will definitely be included in the text of the national programme.
According to Miscevic, Serbia plans to have a final version of the national programme by the end of August, so that the Serbian government can adopt it in September and have a clear work plan for the next four years.
The national EU integration programme will set out the government’s basic legislative work plan until 2012 which is the year ear-marked in Serbia’s strategy for joining the EU as the year when Serbia will be ready to take on obligations stemming from EU membership. She added that the national programme will be revised once annually.
The national programme is precise, and its text covers more than 800 pages, and it is a plan for meeting criteria for EU membership, from political and economic, to the adoption of laws and most detailed standards which exist in the EU in the areas of trade, agriculture, environmental protection and infrastructure.
These conditions for EU membership were agreed upon by the EU Council of Ministers in Copenhagen in 1993.
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