"Parliament plays important role in negotiations with EU"

Serbia’s EU talks negotiator Tanja Miščević says the country’s parliament plays a very important role in the European integration and negotiations process.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 10.09.2013.

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BELGRADE Serbia’s EU talks negotiator Tanja Miscevic says the country’s parliament plays a very important role in the European integration and negotiations process. Speaking on Tuesday, she noted that there are "no ready-made models for this job and we are devising the mechanisms ourselves," Tanjug reported. "Parliament plays important role in negotiations with EU" Speaking at a conference entitled "Parliaments in a Changing Europe: Citizens and Representative Institutions in Modern Governance," held in the Serbian parliament building as part of an EU-funded twinning project aimed at improving the parliament’s representative, legislative and oversight roles, Miscevic said we should see what we are and what we want to become as a full-fledged EU member and how important our role as a member will be. “The process has to be inclusive and transparent,” Miscevic said, extending an open invitation for the participation in it of all those who can contribute to it. Miscevic said that transparency of information and communication is crucial, and it should not only come from the negotiating team to the public and the parliament but also vice versa, through the corrective role of the parliament and MPs. Miscevic said we should remember the parliament’s importance in the negotiating process and its two key roles – the legislative and oversight ones – which will not diminish in the European integration process but rather gain in importance. “The negotiating process is also monitoring the process of adoption and harmonization of laws,” she said, adding that relevant information will be made available to MPs and members of all parliamentary committees. She concluded that the process involves substantial reforms that are not beginning right now but rather continuing, and stressed that the reforms will bring the most benefit for the citizens of Serbia. (Tanjug) Tanjug

"Parliament plays important role in negotiations with EU"

Speaking at a conference entitled "Parliaments in a Changing Europe: Citizens and Representative Institutions in Modern Governance," held in the Serbian parliament building as part of an EU-funded twinning project aimed at improving the parliament’s representative, legislative and oversight roles, Miščević said we should see what we are and what we want to become as a full-fledged EU member and how important our role as a member will be.

“The process has to be inclusive and transparent,” Miščević said, extending an open invitation for the participation in it of all those who can contribute to it.

Miščević said that transparency of information and communication is crucial, and it should not only come from the negotiating team to the public and the parliament but also vice versa, through the corrective role of the parliament and MPs.

Miščević said we should remember the parliament’s importance in the negotiating process and its two key roles – the legislative and oversight ones – which will not diminish in the European integration process but rather gain in importance.

“The negotiating process is also monitoring the process of adoption and harmonization of laws,” she said, adding that relevant information will be made available to MPs and members of all parliamentary committees.

She concluded that the process involves substantial reforms that are not beginning right now but rather continuing, and stressed that the reforms will bring the most benefit for the citizens of Serbia.

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