PREUGOVOR alarm : report on the progress of Serbia in chapters 23 and 24 October 2017
PREUGOVOR alarm : report on the progress of Serbia in chapters 23 and 24 October 2017

Contributor(s): Milan Aleksić (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: EU accession; Chapters 23 and 24; rule of law; transparency
Summary/Abstract: It has been a year since the pre-accession negotiations on Chapters 23 and 24 between Serbia and the European Union (EU) took place, as well as since the Action Plans for Chapters 23 and 24 were adopted. In this regard, and relying on their previous practice, the line ministries – the Ministry of Justice (MoJ, for Chapter 23) and the Ministry of Interior (MoI, for Chapter 24) published semi-annual reports on the implementation of action plans for the first six months of 2017. The data from these reports, however, show that in the observed period there was no improvement in the implementation of these Action Plans, compared to the previous period. The Ministry of Justice states that in the first half of 2017, 65% of all planned activities for Chapter 23 were successfully implemented, with the best results recorded in the area of basic rights, where 72% of the planned activities were achieved, which is a poorer score than in 2016. According to the Report of the Ministry of Interior, about 42% of the activities were successfully implemented, which is slight improvement compared to the previous period.1 However, still a major problem is the fact that for a large number of activities in the Ministry of Interior report, no data regarding the status of implementation have been reported. Bearing in mind the delays in implementing a significant number of planned activities in these action plans, but also proposals to further shift their deadlines, indicated in the state reports and discussed in this Alarm Report, their revision should be considered in the upcoming period.

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