Action plans for screening recommendations

Action plans for screening recommendations

The action plans will provide answers to the question of how the EU recommendations will be implemented, how much that will cost Serbia and whose responsibility it will be, Miščević said on Monday during the constitutive session of the National Convent on the European Union in Serbia task force for negotiation chapter 23, attended by many representatives of non-governmental representatives.

The National Convent on the EU brings together several hundred organizations that will monitor the process of negotiations between Serbia and the EU, provide comments and represent the ideas and proposals of the civil society in the process, with the task force to be coordinated by the Human Rights House.

The Serbian translation of the screening report on Chapter 23, which relates to the rule of law, will be published on the website of the Ministry of Justice in the next few days, Miščević announced.

Much has been done in the judicial reform since the text of the report was written, especially in the field of legislation, she noted.

"The action plan is the first step, followed by our negotiating position, which we need to present to the government and the parliamentary committee on European integrations, but there will be room to also include the Convent into the procedure," Miščević said.

The organizer of the National Convent on the EU, Nataša Dragojlović of the European Movement in Serbia, said that Chapter 23 is a benchmark of progress in all other areas, since no other chapters can be closed before it.

"It is important that these affairs are run not only by the government, but that the process is joined by as many non-governmental organizations as possible", Dragojlovic said, while task force coordinator Milan Antonijević of the Human Rights House said that the many years of negotiations on this chapter will be an opportunity for non-governmental organizations to have a constructive influence on the government's policy-making.