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European Commission makes positive report on Serbia

Belgrade, 9 November 2010

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic said today that the European Commission has made a positive report on Serbia, with ideas about reforms for next year.

File photo of Bozidar Djelic

Author: Tanjug

Djelic told Tanjug news agency that the report contains ten key topics, such as the completion of judicial reform and the adoption of the restitution law, further economic reforms, strengthening of regulatory issues, and addressing the issue of mandate of parliament members.

These are all conditions that will, he says, ensure that Serbia gets candidate status next year and thereby begins negotiations for joining the EU.

Regarding the questionnaire which EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will give to Serbia on 24 November, Djelic explained that each questionnaire has some specific features and that the Serbian government has done preparatory work on the basis of questionnaires given to the neighbouring countries.

This will help us respond to the questionnaire as early as the first quarter of next year, Djelic confirmed and added that specific questions are not hard to predict because they will refer to those elements of the report in which the greatest progress is expected.

Djelic outlined that when Serbia returns the completed questionnaire, during the first quarter of next year, technical missions will follow during the second quarter of 2011 which will check whether what has been said in the questionnaire exists in reality.

Serbia will have additional work so that the European Commission could give its opinion in September or October next year on the basis of this report, the questionnaire and Serbia’s work and cooperation. If its opinion is positive, Serbia could obtain candidate status at the December summit next year, during Poland’s Presidency of the EU, Djelic concluded.